Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

Concordance

The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

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habit 3

  1. p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
  2. p. 411, line 34[…] the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or […]
  3. p. 434, line 43[…] him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and […]

habitan 2

  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  2. p. 117, line 13I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,

habitans 1

  1. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;

habituès 2

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

hackmatack-roots 1

  1. p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,

had 69

  1. p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
  2. p. 36, line 9I tuck'd my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;
  3. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  4. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
  5. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
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  1. p. 45, line 22We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  2. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  3. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,
  4. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
  7. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
  8. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  9. p. 130, line 19Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
  10. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
  11. p. 131, line 22I too had receiv'd identity by my body,
  12. p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,
  13. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  14. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  15. p. 180, line 11If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
  16. p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
  17. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  18. p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
  19. p. 230, line 1Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,
  20. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  21. p. 251, line 20I am more resolute because all have denied me than I could ever have been had all accepted me,
  22. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  23. 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,
  24. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  25. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
  26. p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
  27. p. 329, line 18Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
  28. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  29. 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,
  30. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  31. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  32. p. 368, line 25Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
  33. p. 384, line 23[…] Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of […]
  34. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  35. p. 389, line 8Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
  36. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;
  37. p. 400, line 7Had fought in the ranks—fought well—had been all through the Revolutionary war,)
  38. p. 407, line 3HAD I not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis […]
  39. p. 409, line 15GOOD-BYE* my fancy—(I had a word to say,
  40. p. 411, line 43[…] great battles, even with all their horrors. I had more than once the same experience on the fields cover'd […]
  41. p. 413, line 37[…] is worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would […]
  42. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  43. p. 425, line 14[…] ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching […]
  44. p. 426, line 4[…] more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft […]
  45. p. 426, line 12[…] influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly […]
  46. p. 426, line 36[…] rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on the […]
  47. p. 426, line 38[…] or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated […]
  48. p. 427, line 10[…] other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than […]
  49. p. 429, line 8[…] of them, and without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before a […]
  50. p. 430, line 4[…] important, of their point of view,* the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new […]
  51. p. 431, line 44[…] point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware […]
  52. p. 432, line 9[…] to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars […]
  53. p. 432, line 27[…] poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo […]
  54. p. 433, line 15Toward the last I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which […]
  55. p. 433, line 24[…] thing as a long poem. The same thought had been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short […]
  56. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw, from […]
  57. p. 433, line 42[…] indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It is certain, I say […]
  58. p. 433, line 43[…] It is certain, I say, that, although I had made a start before, only from the occurrence of the […]
  59. p. 434, line 22[…] to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any theme […]
  60. p. 437, line 3[…] thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire […]

had'st 1

  1. p. 205, line 13In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,

haggard 3

  1. p. 120, line 2You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd Bedowee!
  2. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  3. p. 354, line 12I see 'neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.

Hague 1

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

hail 3

  1. p. 51, line 26I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
  2. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!
  3. p. 422, line 18Good-bye—and hail! my Fancy.

hailing 1

  1. p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.

hair 34

  1. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  2. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
  3. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  4. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  5. p. 38, line 5The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
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  1. p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
  2. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
  3. p. 63, line 18The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl'd whiskers,
  4. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  5. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  6. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  7. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  8. p. 82, line 15The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  9. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
  10. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  11. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
  12. p. 87, line 11Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,
  13. p. 87, line 27The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
  14. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
  15. p. 145, line 26My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard,
  16. p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
  17. p. 198, line 20I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,
  18. p. 200, line 20The boy ecstatic, with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying,
  19. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  20. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
  21. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  22. p. 284, line 10Her old white hair drooping dishevel'd round her shoulders,
  23. p. 284, line 16O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white hair so dishevel'd,
  24. p. 312, line 28Her hair down her back falls loose and dishevel'd.
  25. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  26. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  27. p. 329, line 13Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop'd her face,
  28. p. 332, line 1The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
  29. p. 367, line 7Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,

hairs 4

  1. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  2. p. 394, line 5These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet,
  3. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)
  4. p. 415, line 30Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.

hairy 3

  1. p. 37, line 21Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

halcyon 2

  1. p. 384, line 21[…] Lincoln, born Feb. 12, 1809, 388 Out of May's Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had […]
  2. p. 388, line 25The brooding and blissful halcyon days!

half 20

  1. p. 22, line 13I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough,
  2. p. 22, line 14None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough,
  3. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  4. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,
  5. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
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  1. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  2. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  3. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  6. p. 211, line 13Like lightning it le'pt forth half startled at itself,
  7. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  8. p. 230, line 1Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,
  9. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  10. p. 395, line 7(Sometimes, indeed, through half the day,)
  11. p. 410, line 21A VAGUE mist hanging 'round half the pages:
  12. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.
  13. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,
  14. p. 429, line 36[…] completed, from any other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic […]
  15. p. 438, line 11[…] Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly […]

half-breed 1

  1. p. 40, line 4The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,

half-burn'd 1

  1. p. 56, line 21Where the half-burn'd brig is riding on unknown currents,

half-caught 3

  1. p. 390, line 3With many a half-caught voice sent up from the eddies,
  2. p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:
  3. p. 438, line 2Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo from the shore.

half-dimm'd 1

  1. p. 338, line 23With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,

half-door 1

  1. p. 36, line 17Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,

half-drown'd 1

  1. p. 306, line 5And 'mid its teeming madden'd half-drown'd crowds,

half-envelop'd 1

  1. p. 329, line 13Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop'd her face,

half-frozen 1

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

half-grown 1

  1. 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,

half-held 1

  1. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

half-hid 1

  1. p. 277, line 10Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas,

half-impassable 1

  1. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

half-ironical 1

  1. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,

half-kill'd 1

  1. p. 62, line 1Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,

half-known 1

  1. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

half-lights 1

  1. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,

half-moon 2

  1. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
  2. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,

half-pull'd 1

  1. p. 354, line 6And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pull'd scabbard.

half-shut 1

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

half-smile 1

  1. p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,

half-spread 1

  1. p. 39, line 3The brood of the turkey-hen and she with her half-spread wings,

half-starv'd 1

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

half-stifled 1

  1. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,

half-welcome 1

  1. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,

halibut 1

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

hall 3

  1. p. 57, line 22Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the office or public hall;
  2. p. 292, line 3RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,
  3. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,

halls 4

  1. p. 26, line 26Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
  2. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  3. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
  4. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,

halo 2

  1. p. 196, line 17Down from the shower'd halo,
  2. p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!

halt 8

  1. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  2. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  3. p. 240, line 7Curious I halt and silent stand,
  4. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  5. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  6. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  7. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
  8. p. 397, line 6"Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,)

halted 2

  1. p. 183, line 17Have the elder races halted?
  2. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,

halting 1

  1. p. 235, line 17I SEE before me now a traveling army halting,

halts 1

  1. p. 425, line 13[…] journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more […]

halyards 1

  1. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,

hamadryads 1

  1. p. 165, line 24A chorus of dryads, fading, departing, or hamadryads departing,

Hamburg 1

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

Hamlet 1

  1. p. 389, line 11Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,

hamlets 1

  1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,

hammer 2

  1. p. 162, line 24To use the hammer and the saw, (rip, or cross-cut,)
  2. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)

hammers 4

  1. p. 37, line 25Overhand the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure,
  2. p. 64, line 22That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 150, line 8The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curv'd limbs,
  4. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,

hammersmen 1

  1. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,

hand 124

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handcuff'd 3 today: handcuffed

  1. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  2. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,

handcuffed see handcuff'd

handcuffs 1

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

handed 1

  1. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?

Handel 1

  1. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,

handful 4

  1. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
  2. p. 159, line 9Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind, extinct,
  3. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  4. p. 296, line 20Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)

handfuls 1

  1. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.

handkerchief 1

  1. p. 33, line 6Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,

handle 3

  1. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;
  2. p. 281, line 23Toil on heroes! toil well! handle the weapons well!
  3. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

handling 1

  1. p. 413, line 42[…] But we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to the other. These two, with modern […]

hands 62

  1. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
  2. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  3. p. 33, line 3A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
  4. p. 39, line 22The deacons are ordain'd with cross'd hands at the altar,
  5. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
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  1. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  2. p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  3. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
  4. p. 60, line 22They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.
  5. p. 62, line 14My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
  6. p. 65, line 24Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands,
  7. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  8. p. 81, line 6From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,
  9. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  10. 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,
  11. p. 105, line 16My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
  12. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  13. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.
  14. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  15. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  16. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
  17. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
  18. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
  19. p. 160, line 1In liberty's name welcome immortal! clasp hands,
  20. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  21. p. 165, line 4Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands,
  22. p. 184, line 7All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern,
  23. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  24. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,
  25. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  26. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  27. p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
  28. p. 229, line 19How it climbs with daring feet and hands—how it dashes!
  29. p. 232, line 2Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping!
  30. p. 233, line 18I saw how he wrung his hands in anguish.
  31. p. 234, line 3Nobody clapp'd hands here then.
  32. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  33. p. 250, line 9Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
  34. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  35. p. 255, line 16O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
  36. p. 260, line 1And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,
  37. p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
  38. p. 261, line 32Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades' hands,
  39. p. 281, line 8I see well-wielded in their hands the better weapons.
  40. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  41. p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,
  42. p. 292, line 18Cries, help! O help! and wrings her hands,
  43. p. 306, line 23This cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet,
  44. p. 313, line 23I hear them clapping their hands as they bend their bodies,
  45. p. 320, line 3The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
  46. p. 324, line 32My hands, my limbs grow nerveless,
  47. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  48. p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
  49. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  50. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  51. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,
  52. p. 396, line 26Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud applause;
  53. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,
  54. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,
  55. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,
  56. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  57. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;

hand-saw 1

  1. p. 75, line 17The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words.

handsome 7

  1. p. 37, line 5She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 57, line 24Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
  3. p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
  4. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  5. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  6. p. 353, line 7The ugly face of some beautiful soul, the handsome detested or despised face,
  7. p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,

hang 11

  1. p. 66, line 22By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
  2. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
  3. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  4. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  5. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,
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  1. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,
  2. p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
  3. p. 258, line 8O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
  4. p. 258, line 9And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,
  5. p. 294, line 23What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire?
  6. p. 411, line 10So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,

hanging 4

  1. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  2. p. 89, line 23The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
  3. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  4. p. 410, line 21A VAGUE mist hanging 'round half the pages:

hangman 1

  1. p. 212, line 4Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,

hangs 7

  1. p. 41, line 19Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw,
  2. p. 56, line 13Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
  3. p. 198, line 28Low hangs the moon, it rose late,
  4. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  5. p. 355, line 21It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  6. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
  7. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,

hankering 1

  1. p. 44, line 8Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;

hankers 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;

hapless 3

  1. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  2. p. 185, line 5All the hapless silent lovers,
  3. p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.

haply 24

  1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  2. p. 295, line 31The workings, details, haply human.)
  3. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  4. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  5. p. 323, line 20Haply I may not live another day;
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  1. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  2. p. 324, line 17Haply the brutish measureless human undergrowth I know,
  3. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,
  4. p. 324, line 20Haply the lifeless cross I know, Europe's dead cross, may bud and blossom there.
  5. p. 346, line 18(Haply the only living, only real,
  6. p. 348, line 9Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it,
  7. p. 356, line 11Come nearer bodiless one, haply in thee resounds
  8. p. 356, line 12Some dead composer, haply thy pensive life
  9. p. 363, line 12Haply God's riddle it, so vague and yet so certain,
  10. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.
  11. p. 387, line 5Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
  12. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
  13. p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
  14. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  15. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,
  16. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,
  17. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,
  18. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)

happen 5

  1. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  2. p. 89, line 27Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them,
  3. p. 126, line 5These are the days that must happen to you:
  4. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  5. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;

happen'd 1 today: happened

  1. p. 433, line 7[…] two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter mostly in an old wood. The […]

happened see happen'd

happens 3

  1. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  2. p. 49, line 24Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy,
  3. p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,

happier 2

  1. p. 182, line 3High in the purer, happier air.
  2. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,

happiest 3

  1. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  2. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  3. p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!

happily 1

  1. p. 435, line 38[…] depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements of courageous and […]

happiness 14

  1. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  2. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  3. p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
  4. p. 124, line 21The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness,
  5. p. 145, line 28O ripen'd joy of womanhood! O happiness at last!
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  1. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  2. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  3. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  4. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  5. p. 276, line 26Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself.
  6. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
  7. p. 362, line 12Nor lore nor fame, nor happiness nor wealth,
  8. p. 364, line 24They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,

happy 22

  1. p. 18, line 21Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
  2. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,
  3. p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  4. p. 89, line 22The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,
  5. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
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  1. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  2. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  3. p. 103, line 11And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
  4. p. 106, line 25I know I should be happy with them.
  5. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  6. p. 112, line 5Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;
  7. p. 122, line 21I think whoever I see must be happy.
  8. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  9. p. 182, line 11O the blest eyes, the happy hearts,
  10. p. 200, line 9O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
  11. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  12. p. 293, line 16The mother's voice in lullaby, the sister's care, the happy childhood,
  13. p. 295, line 9A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect child.
  14. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  15. p. 336, line 8He is one of those who are beautiful and happy, he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  16. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,
  17. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;

haps 1

  1. p. 132, line 12Was one with the rest, the days and haps of the rest,

harbinge 1

  1. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,

harbor 1

  1. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,

harbors 1

  1. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;

hard 10

  1. p. 56, line 26Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
  2. p. 68, line 12Ever the hard unsunk ground,
  3. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
  4. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  5. p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
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  1. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
  2. p. 252, line 11Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
  3. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  4. p. 404, line 12(So hard for his hand to release those hands—no more will they meet,

hard-cased 1

  1. p. 407, line 35[…] getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly […]

hard-contested 1

  1. p. 270, line 17I sing you over all, flying beckoning through the fight—O the hard-contested fight!

harden 1

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

harden'd 1 today: hardened

  1. p. 280, line 19Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty march,

hardened see harden'd

hardening 1

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

hard-faced 1

  1. p. 149, line 7Welcome just as much the other more hard-faced lands,

hard-fought 2

  1. p. 242, line 5Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
  2. p. 280, line 20Inured on many a hard-fought bloody field.

hardiest 1

  1. p. 402, line 6The faithfulest—hardiest—last.

hardly 10

  1. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  2. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 79, line 1You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  4. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  5. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
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  1. p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
  2. p. 249, line 17What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
  3. p. 349, line 16But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
  4. p. 427, line 8[…] author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring from other faiths or […]

hard-prest 1

  1. p. 239, line 1A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,

hardships 1

  1. p. 242, line 12(Both I remember well—many the hardships, few the joys, yet I was content.)

hardy 5

  1. p. 154, line 10Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,
  2. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  3. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  4. p. 365, line 9WEAVE in, weave in, my hardy life,
  5. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,

hark 6

  1. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  2. p. 186, line 6Far, far off the daybreak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
  3. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
  4. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,
  5. p. 356, line 6HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician,
  6. p. 357, line 6I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang,

harks 1

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

harm'd 1 today: harmed

  1. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

harmed see harm'd

harmless 3

  1. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  2. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
  3. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,

harmlessly 1

  1. p. 52, line 9They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.

harmonies 1

  1. p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,

harmonious 3

  1. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  2. p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
  3. p. 321, line 28That, circling, move in order, safe, harmonious,

harmony 2

  1. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.
  2. p. 309, line 13Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,

harp 4

  1. p. 284, line 11At her feet fallen an unused royal harp,
  2. p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
  3. p. 314, line 1I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,
  4. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)

harpers 1

  1. p. 311, line 13I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,

harping 1

  1. p. 387, line 6Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?

harpoon 1

  1. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,

harpooneer 1

  1. p. 145, line 18I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;

harps 3

  1. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  2. p. 311, line 13I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,
  3. p. 315, line 14Nor flutes, nor harps, nor the bugle-calls of camps,

harsh 5

  1. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  2. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  3. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  4. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
  5. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;

harvest 10

  1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,
  2. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
  3. p. 278, line 10O harvest of my lands—O boundless summer growths,
  4. p. 281, line 20Toil on heroes! harvest the products!
  5. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
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  1. p. 282, line 3All gather and all harvest,
  2. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  3. p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,
  4. p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,
  5. p. 346, line 14(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

harvester 1

  1. p. 346, line 12Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,

harvesting 1

  1. p. 346, line 12Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,

harvest-time 1

  1. p. 35, line 21The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon,

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hast 14

  1. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  2. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  3. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  4. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  5. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
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  1. p. 278, line 9O earth that hast no voice, confide to me a voice,
  2. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  3. p. 324, line 22That Thou O God my life hast lighted,
  4. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  5. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  6. p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
  7. p. 411, line 5But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
  8. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  9. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?

haste 9

  1. p. 27, line 9With me with firm holding, yet haste, haste on.
  2. p. 29, line 5O to haste firm holding—to haste, haste on with me.
  3. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
  4. p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
  5. p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
  6. p. 428, line 14[…] war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement […]

hasten 8

  1. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  2. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  3. p. 53, line 11They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  4. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  5. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  6. p. 357, line 23Lo, where the arm'd men hasten—lo, mid the clouds of dust the glint of bayonets,
  7. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  8. p. 381, line 16Hasten throat and sound your last,

hastening 6

  1. p. 80, line 30From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter'd too long as it is,)
  2. p. 209, line 8Below, a myriad myriad waves hastening, lifting up their necks,
  3. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  4. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  5. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
  6. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,

hastens 1

  1. p. 176, line 18The earth neither lags nor hastens,

hastily 3

  1. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
  2. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  3. p. 279, line 15Nor the regiments hastily coming up deploying in line of battle;

hasting 2

  1. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
  2. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;

hasty 2

  1. p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
  2. p. 422, line 11Yet let me not be too hasty,

hat 6

  1. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
  2. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  3. p. 44, line 16I wear my hat as I please indoors or out.
  4. p. 64, line 16I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
  5. 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,
  6. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,

hatch'd 1 today: hatched

  1. p. 286, line 14The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs,

hatched see hatch'd

hatches 1

  1. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

hatchets 1

  1. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;

hatching 1

  1. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.

hate 5

  1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,
  2. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
  3. p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
  4. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  5. p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.

hated 1

  1. 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,

hateful 1

  1. p. 341, line 25And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.

hates 1

  1. p. 132, line 11Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting,

hatred 2

  1. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  2. p. 378, line 16(There without hatred we all, all meet.)

hatreds 1

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

hats 2

  1. p. 65, line 8The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
  2. p. 210, line 8Cock'd hats of mothy mould—crutches made of mist!

hatter 1

  1. p. 17, line 6The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,

haughtier 1

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

haughtiest 1

  1. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,

haughty 10

  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  3. p. 126, line 27Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
  4. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  5. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
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  1. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  2. p. 258, line 23Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,
  3. p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
  4. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  5. p. 420, line 19Haughty this song, its words and scope,

haul 2

  1. p. 60, line 7The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
  2. p. 323, line 1Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!

haul'd 1 today: hauled

  1. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,

hauled see haul'd

haulers 1

  1. p. 155, line 23Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec,

hauling 3

  1. p. 32, line 7Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  2. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  3. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,

haunt 1

  1. p. 360, line 1O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again,

haunting 2

  1. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,
  2. p. 433, line 24[…] a long poem. The same thought had been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the […]

haunts 4

  1. p. 120, line 22For all the haunts and homes of men.
  2. p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
  3. p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,
  4. p. 362, line 21Indifferently, 'mid public, private haunts, in solitude,

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having 20

  1. p. 19, line 4Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk,
  2. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  3. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,
  4. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
  5. p. 79, line 11The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
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  1. p. 95, line 8Long having wander'd since, round the earth having wander'd,
  2. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  3. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
  4. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  5. p. 123, line 21Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
  6. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  7. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  8. p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
  9. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  10. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
  11. p. 344, line 7FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
  12. p. 369, line 3Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won,
  13. p. 403, line 16Each song of mine—each utterance in the past—having its long, long history,

hawk 3

  1. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  2. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  3. p. 353, line 12A wild hawk, his wings clipp'd by the clipper,

hawks 3

  1. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  2. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
  3. p. 312, line 15The twittering bird, the hawk's sharp scream,

hawser'd 1 today: hawsered

  1. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,

hawsered see hawser'd

hawsers 4

  1. p. 323, line 1Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
  2. p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
  3. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
  4. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,

hay 4

  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. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
  3. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  4. p. 282, line 9Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns,

hay-boat 2

  1. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
  2. p. 132, line 28The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?

Haydn 1

  1. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,

hay-rakes 1

  1. p. 281, line 28Beholdest moving in every direction imbued as with life the revolving hay-rakes,

hay-rick 1

  1. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,

Hayti 1

  1. 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,

hazard 3

  1. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
  2. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  3. p. 187, line 22Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!

hazards 1

  1. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,

haze 8

  1. p. 130, line 21Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward,
  2. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  3. p. 216, line 23And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
  4. p. 294, line 2The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,
  5. p. 353, line 22This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  6. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
  7. p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
  8. p. 401, line 22A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.

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head 73

  1. p. 21, line 15The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all,
  2. p. 21, line 17(However high the head of any else that head is over all.)
  3. p. 32, line 10Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
  4. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  5. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
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  1. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
  2. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  3. p. 41, line 2The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just-open'd lips,
  4. p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  5. p. 49, line 5This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
  6. p. 49, line 15Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
  7. p. 50, line 6The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
  8. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
  9. p. 54, line 4And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
  10. p. 55, line 7Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
  11. p. 56, line 23Where the dense-starr'd flag is borne at the head of the regiments,
  12. p. 60, line 8Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.
  13. p. 64, line 19Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
  14. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  15. p. 68, line 9My head slues round on my neck,
  16. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,
  17. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
  18. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  19. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
  20. p. 83, line 19A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
  21. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  22. p. 85, line 21In this head the all-baffling brain,
  23. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
  24. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  25. p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,
  26. p. 116, line 4I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head,
  27. p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  28. p. 130, line 20Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
  29. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
  30. p. 148, line 17Head from the mother's bowels drawn,
  31. p. 151, line 15The uplifted arm, the clatter of blows on the helmeted head,
  32. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  33. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  34. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  35. p. 187, line 2From the head of the centre-figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  36. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  37. p. 204, line 17Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;
  38. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  39. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  40. p. 237, line 16Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
  41. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,
  42. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  43. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,
  44. p. 248, line 4And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes,
  45. p. 249, line 6With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
  46. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
  47. p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
  48. p. 251, line 15AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado,
  49. p. 263, line 4This arm beneath your head!
  50. p. 268, line 7I mark the new aureola around your head,
  51. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
  52. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,
  53. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,
  54. p. 326, line 7The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
  55. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  56. p. 331, line 10The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportion'd and plumb.
  57. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,
  58. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  59. p. 355, line 29The sun just shines on her old white head.
  60. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,
  61. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
  62. p. 382, line 14I feel immerged from head to foot,
  63. p. 402, line 12To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia,
  64. p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)
  65. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  66. p. 432, line 1[…] had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form […]

head-foremost 1

  1. p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.

heading 1

  1. p. 185, line 19We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,

headland 3

  1. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  2. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  3. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.

head-light 1

  1. p. 359, line 4Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front,

heads 17

  1. p. 33, line 20This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
  2. p. 57, line 14Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out,
  3. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  4. p. 61, line 5The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
  5. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
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  1. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  2. p. 184, line 14Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
  3. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  4. 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.
  5. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  6. p. 191, line 13(A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads,
  7. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  8. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
  9. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  10. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  11. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  12. 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.

head-singer 1

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

headsman 3

  1. p. 154, line 16I see the European headsman,
  2. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
  3. p. 155, line 2I see the headsman withdraw and become useless,

headway 1

  1. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,

heal 1

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

health 24

  1. p. 29, line 13I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
  2. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  3. p. 79, line 2But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
  4. p. 88, line 3The exquisite realization of health;
  5. p. 88, line 10Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
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  1. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  2. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  3. p. 125, line 18Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
  4. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  5. p. 137, line 17Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
  6. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  7. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  8. p. 181, line 24Health to emerge and joy, joy universal.
  9. p. 182, line 33Health, peace, salvation universal.
  10. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
  11. 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,
  12. p. 272, line 23Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power;
  13. p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
  14. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
  15. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  16. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!
  17. p. 398, line 11For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life,
  18. p. 419, line 13How cheap is health! how cheap nobility!
  19. p. 437, line 10[…] connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human […]

healthier 1

  1. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,

healthiest 1

  1. p. 153, line 10Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,

healthy 7

  1. p. 26, line 7Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
  2. p. 120, line 24Healthy, free, the world before me,
  3. p. 162, line 31Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
  4. p. 176, line 13A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words, sayings, meanings,
  5. p. 281, line 18And healthy uplands with herby-perfumed breezes,
  6. p. 355, line 4This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.
  7. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!

heap 1

  1. p. 126, line 6You shall not heap up what is call'd riches,

heap'd 2 today: heaped

  1. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
  2. p. 408, line 27[…] sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the […]

heap'd-up 1

  1. p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,

heaped see heap'd

heaps 3

  1. 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,
  2. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
  3. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,

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  1. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  2. p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,
  3. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  4. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  5. p. 36, line 16I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile,
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  1. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  2. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  3. p. 60, line 15I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,
  4. p. 67, line 1I heard what was said of the universe,
  5. p. 67, line 2Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
  6. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  7. p. 94, line 21Winds of autumn, as I walk'd the woods at dusk I heard your long-stretch'd sighs up above so mournful,
  8. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  9. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  10. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  11. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  12. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
  13. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  14. p. 166, line 10I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting.
  15. p. 166, line 11The choppers heard not, the camp shanties echoed not,
  16. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,
  17. p. 166, line 14But in my soul I plainly heard.
  18. p. 182, line 9Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard,
  19. p. 188, line 10Heard over the waves the little voice,
  20. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  21. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
  22. p. 198, line 3I saw, I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he-bird,
  23. p. 199, line 26For somewhere I believe I heard my mate responding to me,
  24. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  25. p. 214, line 13WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer,
  26. p. 214, line 16When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
  27. p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
  28. p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,
  29. p. 221, line 18As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,
  30. p. 222, line 1Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
  31. p. 222, line 22Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties,
  32. p. 228, line 22I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds,
  33. p. 229, line 2Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,
  34. p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
  35. p. 252, line 4How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
  36. p. 262, line 6As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
  37. p. 268, line 26I heard the voice arising demanding bards,
  38. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  39. p. 315, line 9Haply what thou hast heard O soul was not the sound of winds,
  40. p. 329, line 25But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  41. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  42. p. 355, line 24I heard what the singers were singing so long,
  43. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  44. p. 377, line 6PENSIVE on her dead gazing I heard the Mother of All,
  45. p. 400, line 4I heard it in my boyhood;)—More than a generation since,
  46. p. 411, line 31[…] tide and the sunset," was a phrase I heard from a surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly […]
  47. p. 425, line 4PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest […]

hearer's 1

  1. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.

hearest 1

  1. p. 311, line 8Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?

hearing 11

  1. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  2. p. 129, line 21The certainty of others, the life, love, sight, hearing of others.
  3. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  4. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  5. p. 213, line 9Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
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  1. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  2. p. 234, line 7Quite within hearing, feasting, clinking wineglasses together over their victory.
  3. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  4. p. 426, line 23[…] the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up for any and all […]
  5. p. 431, line 13[…] and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the […]

hearings 1

  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,

hearken 1

  1. p. 223, line 18Words no more, for hearken and see,

hears 3

  1. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  2. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  3. p. 312, line 31Hears the infernal call, the death-pledge of the horn.

hearse 3

  1. p. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
  2. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
  3. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,

hearses 1

  1. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,

heart 60

  1. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  2. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  3. p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  4. p. 52, line 17Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
  5. p. 56, line 15Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
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  1. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  3. p. 94, line 23Heart of my love! you too I heard murmuring low through one of the wrists around my head,
  4. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  5. p. 96, line 27Spring away from the conceal'd heart there!
  6. p. 98, line 13Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
  7. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
  8. p. 181, line 6Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
  9. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  10. p. 197, line 2From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
  11. p. 200, line 7O throat! O throbbing heart!
  12. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  13. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  14. p. 211, line 17O many a sicken'd heart!
  15. p. 213, line 10No brain, no heart left, no magnetism of sex;
  16. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
  17. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  18. p. 244, line 21These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
  19. p. 246, line 35And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
  20. p. 246, line 36My heart gives you love.
  21. p. 262, line 25But O heart! heart! heart!
  22. p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
  23. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
  24. p. 284, line 13Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love.
  25. p. 312, line 6(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
  26. p. 312, line 7This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.)
  27. p. 313, line 4Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.
  28. p. 323, line 18Venting a heavy heart.
  29. p. 333, line 20The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  30. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
  31. p. 357, line 11The heart of man and woman all for love,
  32. p. 358, line 2Thou melt'st my heart, my brain—thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;
  33. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  34. p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
  35. p. 366, line 8Again old heart so gay, again to you, your sense, the full flush spring returning,
  36. p. 371, line 6Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
  37. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!
  38. p. 386, line 6Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast,
  39. p. 389, line 21What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all?
  40. p. 391, line 17(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
  41. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
  42. p. 392, line 13Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain'd and chafing in those breakers,
  43. p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,
  44. p. 394, line 9These with gay heart I also sing.
  45. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,
  46. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,
  47. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  48. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  49. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  50. p. 418, line 9Take deep to thy proud prosperous heart.
  51. p. 434, line 1[…] of course, I don't mean in my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in […]
  52. p. 434, line 42[…] and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems […]

heart-beat 1

  1. p. 327, line 14I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away.

heart-beats 1

  1. p. 378, line 25Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night,

heart-chants 1

  1. p. 311, line 26All passionate heart-chants, sorrowful appeals,

hearth-slab 1

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

hearts 18

  1. p. 51, line 15I hear the violoncello, ('tis the young man's heart's complaint,)
  2. p. 59, line 15I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  3. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  4. p. 123, line 17(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
  2. p. 160, line 6Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
  3. p. 182, line 11O the blest eyes, the happy hearts,
  4. p. 190, line 6(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
  5. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,
  6. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  7. p. 263, line 26For the heavy hearts of soldiers.
  8. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
  9. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
  10. p. 318, line 16With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
  11. p. 319, line 1All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd,
  12. p. 357, line 15The glow, the blush, the beating hearts of lovers,
  13. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;

heart-shaped 4

  1. p. 255, line 19Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  2. p. 256, line 2With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  3. p. 262, line 7Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,
  4. p. 294, line 17The lilac-scent, the bushes with dark green heart-shaped leaves,

heart-sick 1

  1. p. 292, line 22O heart-sick days! O nights of woe!

heart-throbs 1

  1. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,

heart-thud 1

  1. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.

heart-valves 1

  1. p. 87, line 20Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,

hearty 3

  1. p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  2. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,

heat 18

  1. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  2. p. 37, line 22Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire.
  3. p. 54, line 11In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
  4. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
  5. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
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  1. p. 104, line 9NOT heat flames up and consumes,
  2. p. 105, line 1Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
  3. p. 162, line 15With perfumes, heat and wine, beneath the dazzling chandeliers.
  4. p. 178, line 13Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
  5. 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,
  6. p. 249, line 2Grime, heat, rush, aide-de-camps galloping by or on a full run,
  7. p. 278, line 20The heat, the showers, the measureless pasturages,
  8. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  9. p. 352, line 15Thou that with fructifying heat and light,
  10. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  11. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
  12. p. 400, line 15To the wounded, the fallen, the heat, the suspense,
  13. p. 403, line 21Unrest and pain, and feverish heat,

heated 1

  1. p. 414, line 2Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door,

heav'd 1 today: heaved

  1. p. 50, line 6The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,

heave 3

  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,
  2. p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;
  3. p. 409, line 1HEAVE the anchor short!

heaved see heav'd

heave'e'yo 1

  1. p. 51, line 10The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters,

heaven 28

  1. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  2. p. 45, line 16The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
  3. p. 50, line 4Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  4. p. 54, line 2And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  5. p. 58, line 13Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
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  1. p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
  2. p. 77, line 11I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  3. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  4. p. 191, line 11Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven,
  5. p. 204, line 30Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
  6. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
  7. p. 246, line 28In heaven brighter growing.)
  8. p. 251, line 23And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me;
  9. p. 257, line 13O western orb sailing the heaven,
  10. p. 262, line 5Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
  11. p. 268, line 5(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
  12. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  13. p. 292, line 4Rose to the roof, the vaults of heaven above,
  14. p. 296, line 12(Tragedies, sorrows, laughter, tears—O heaven!
  15. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  16. p. 312, line 1Tutti! for earth and heaven;
  17. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  18. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  19. p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  20. p. 331, line 6The myth of heaven indicates the soul,
  21. p. 363, line 14And heaven at last for it.
  22. p. 399, line 5Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
  23. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!

heaven-ambitious 1

  1. p. 368, line 20These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,

heaven-clouds 1

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

heavenly 6

  1. p. 213, line 21Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion,
  2. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
  3. p. 293, line 2The heavenly pardoner death shall come.
  4. p. 307, line 6In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever,
  5. p. 338, line 16WHISPERS of heavenly death murmur'd I hear,
  6. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.

heavens 9

  1. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  2. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
  3. p. 182, line 6One flash of heaven's glory.
  4. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  5. p. 324, line 10A message from the Heavens whispering to me even in sleep,
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  1. p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
  2. p. 356, line 25Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.
  3. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,
  4. p. 421, line 24(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in the heavens,)

heavenward 1

  1. p. 347, line 11Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,

heaves 3

  1. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  2. p. 125, line 3Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
  3. p. 279, line 23For an army heaves in sight, O another gathering army,

heavier 4

  1. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
  2. p. 229, line 26Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,
  3. p. 387, line 3Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?

heaviest 2

  1. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  2. p. 365, line 17OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,

heavily 1

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

heaving 4

  1. p. 100, line 14NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only,
  2. p. 163, line 29And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships;
  3. p. 278, line 17The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
  4. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,

heavy 11

  1. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  3. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  4. p. 198, line 29It is lagging—O I think it is heavy with love, with love.
  5. p. 239, line 2A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
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  1. p. 240, line 6Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
  2. p. 263, line 26For the heavy hearts of soldiers.
  3. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,
  4. p. 323, line 18Venting a heavy heart.
  5. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
  6. p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,

heavy-fringed 1

  1. p. 245, line 17Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!

heavy-lipp'd 1

  1. p. 43, line 22The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;

heavy-plank'd 1

  1. p. 283, line 24Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank'd wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries,

he-bird 3

  1. p. 24, line 3I have seen the he-bird also,
  2. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  3. p. 198, line 3I saw, I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he-bird,

he-birds 1

  1. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,

Hebrew 3

  1. p. 113, line 16I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
  2. p. 154, line 4Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,
  3. p. 313, line 18I hear the sound of the Hebrew lyre,

Hebrews 2

  1. p. 192, line 23I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews,
  2. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,

hecatombs 1

  1. p. 408, line 29[…] what itself cost, back there after all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this […]

Hecla 1

  1. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,

hectic 2

  1. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  2. p. 351, line 3Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face with hectic,

hector 1

  1. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,

he'd 1

  1. p. 402, line 19With rosy tinge reddening the land he'd served,

heed 5

  1. p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,
  2. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  3. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,

heeded 2

  1. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  2. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,

heel 1

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

heels 3

  1. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  2. p. 55, line 10His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,
  3. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?

he-festivals 1

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

heft 1

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

hefts 1

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

Hegel 1

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

heifers 1

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

height 3

  1. p. 43, line 26This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  2. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,
  3. p. 415, line 23The height to be superb humanity.

heights 3

  1. p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
  2. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  3. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,

heir 5

  1. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  2. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
  3. p. 284, line 12Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope and heir,
  4. p. 348, line 7And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
  5. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,

heirdom 1

  1. p. 388, line 6The heirdom all converged in thee!

heiress-ship 1

  1. p. 20, line 28Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,

heirlooms 1

  1. p. 431, line 43[…] never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly […]

heirs 1

  1. p. 167, line 9As if the heirs, the deities of the West,

heir-ship 1

  1. p. 20, line 28Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,

held 17

  1. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  2. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  3. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
  4. p. 123, line 4I did not know I held so much goodness.
  5. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
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  1. p. 180, line 3Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before,
  2. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,
  3. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  4. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
  5. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
  6. p. 260, line 12As I held as if by their hands my comrades in the night,
  7. p. 276, line 4Till the tissues that held me parted their ties upon me.
  8. p. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  9. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  10. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
  11. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  12. p. 417, line 4Call'd for vermilion paint (his looking-glass was held before him,)

hell 11

  1. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  2. p. 45, line 16The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
  3. p. 60, line 4Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,
  4. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  5. p. 128, line 14Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
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  1. p. 151, line 24The hell of war, the cruelties of creeds,
  2. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  3. p. 201, line 7The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,
  4. p. 251, line 22And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me,
  5. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,

hell's 1

  1. p. 299, line 5Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell's tides continually run,

helm 2

  1. p. 205, line 15ABOARD at a ship's helm,
  2. p. 306, line 6Nor helm nor helmsman.

helmeted 2

  1. p. 151, line 15The uplifted arm, the clatter of blows on the helmeted head,
  2. p. 159, line 6Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ended the primitive call of the muses,

helms 1

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

helmsman 3

  1. p. 306, line 6Nor helm nor helmsman.
  2. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  3. p. 389, line 6Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman

help 19

  1. p. 35, line 24I am there, I help, I came stretch'd atop of the load,
  2. p. 47, line 6Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  3. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  4. p. 58, line 24I help myself to material and immaterial,
  5. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
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  1. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  2. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
  3. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  4. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  5. p. 292, line 18Cries, help! O help! and wrings her hands,
  6. p. 328, line 20In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  7. p. 341, line 16I understand your anguish, but I cannot help you,
  8. p. 357, line 26The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!
  9. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
  10. p. 418, line 11The blossoms rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love,
  11. p. 435, line 23[…] the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps […]
  12. p. 437, line 22[…] States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention […]
  13. p. 437, line 41[…] or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the following anecdote from a book, "Annals of […]

help'd 4 today: helped

  1. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  2. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.
  3. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  4. 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,

helped see help'd

helpers 1

  1. p. 126, line 19Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,

helping 1

  1. p. 69, line 24Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

helpless 9

  1. p. 52, line 28They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  2. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
  3. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  4. p. 118, line 10The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
  5. p. 255, line 16O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
  6. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  7. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
  8. p. 408, line 1[…] cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and […]

helplessly 2

  1. p. 114, line 21Some drifting helplessly, some with contagious diseases.
  2. 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.

helps 2

  1. p. 40, line 11The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  2. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,

helve 2

  1. p. 148, line 19Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown, helve produced from a little seed sown,
  2. p. 154, line 29Both blade and helve are clean,

hemisphere 1

  1. p. 431, line 31[…] that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative […]

hemispheres 3

  1. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  2. p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
  3. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,

hemlock 1

  1. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,

hemlock-boughs 1

  1. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;

hemm'd 2 today: hemmed

  1. p. 247, line 25His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works,
  2. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,

hemmed see hemm'd

hemp 5

  1. p. 26, line 5Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple and the grape!
  2. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
  3. p. 164, line 16Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops,
  4. p. 282, line 13Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp or tobacco in the Borders,
  5. p. 360, line 7O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!

hen 1

  1. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,

hence 28

  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. 96, line 5Bequeathing hence types of athletic love,
  3. p. 102, line 9RECORDERS ages hence,
  4. p. 112, line 1To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence,
  5. p. 119, line 15And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
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  1. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  2. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  3. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  4. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  5. p. 162, line 4Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!
  6. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  7. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  8. p. 165, line 13And here and hence O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
  9. p. 188, line 23Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
  10. p. 213, line 11Such from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
  11. p. 230, line 11Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,
  12. p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
  13. p. 241, line 21Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
  14. p. 280, line 27But here and hence your victory.
  15. p. 284, line 7FAR hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
  16. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
  17. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  18. p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,
  19. p. 377, line 20Exhale me them centuries hence, breathe me their breath, let not an atom be lost,
  20. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
  21. p. 406, line 17[…] To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old […]

henceforth 35

  1. p. 15, line 13Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,)
  2. p. 28, line 1Expanding and swift, henceforth,
  3. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  4. p. 100, line 5And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades, this calamus-root shall,
  5. p. 121, line 1Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
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  1. p. 121, line 2Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
  2. p. 134, line 1Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are,
  3. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  4. p. 160, line 2And ever henceforth sisters dear be both.
  5. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  6. p. 168, line 14To the deities of the modern henceforth yielding,
  7. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  8. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
  9. p. 194, line 27The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores,
  10. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
  11. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  12. p. 250, line 4Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,
  13. p. 250, line 10Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
  14. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,
  15. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  16. p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
  17. p. 280, line 30Other the arms the fields henceforth for you, or South or North,
  18. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  19. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  20. p. 315, line 7Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.
  21. p. 336, line 3You are henceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
  22. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  23. p. 341, line 3And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
  24. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
  25. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  26. p. 372, line 14Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions,
  27. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  28. p. 430, line 37[…] theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root […]
  29. p. 434, line 12[…] the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the […]
  30. p. 436, line 9[…] my songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live and are read, it must be just […]

henceforward 3

  1. p. 47, line 15Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  2. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  3. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.

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Herat 1

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

herbage 3

  1. p. 96, line 10SCENTED herbage of my breast,
  2. p. 97, line 1Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
  3. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,

herb-lined 1

  1. p. 277, line 3Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations,

herbs 3

  1. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  2. p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
  3. p. 353, line 24This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,

herby-perfumed 1

  1. p. 281, line 18And healthy uplands with herby-perfumed breezes,

Hercules 3

  1. p. 67, line 7Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
  2. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  3. p. 339, line 16From this side, lo! the Lord Christ gazes—lo! Hermes I—lo! mine is Hercules' face,

herd 3

  1. p. 26, line 7Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
  2. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  3. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,

Herder 1

  1. p. 438, line 34[…] the West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is […]

herds 6

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
  4. p. 93, line 7We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,
  5. p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,
  6. p. 278, line 24The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows,

herdsmen 1

  1. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,

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hereabout 1

  1. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,

hereafter 1

  1. p. 197, line 10I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,

hereby 3

  1. p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
  2. p. 43, line 21The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
  3. p. 436, line 40[…] and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine can do so […]

hereditary 1

  1. p. 266, line 17To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,

here's 3

  1. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  2. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  3. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.

herewith 1

  1. p. 431, line 40[…] to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]

Hermes 2

  1. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  2. p. 339, line 16From this side, lo! the Lord Christ gazes—lo! Hermes I—lo! mine is Hercules' face,

hermit 3

  1. p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,
  2. p. 256, line 7The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,
  3. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,

hero 5

  1. p. 16, line 2I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,
  2. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  3. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  4. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,
  5. p. 402, line 18Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,

heroes 36

  1. p. 43, line 16And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
  2. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  3. p. 59, line 15I understand the large hearts of heroes,
  4. p. 85, line 22In it and below it the makings of heroes.
  5. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
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  1. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  2. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
  3. p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
  4. p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
  5. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
  6. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
  7. p. 208, line 11(Ever the heroes on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
  8. p. 242, line 1Of unsurpass'd heroes, (was one side so brave? the other was equally brave;)
  9. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  10. p. 279, line 11In the midst of the conflict, the heroes, I stood,
  11. p. 280, line 11I saw the day the return of the heroes,
  12. p. 280, line 12(Yet the heroes never surpass'd shall never return,
  13. p. 281, line 7I see the heroes at other toils,
  14. p. 281, line 20Toil on heroes! harvest the products!
  15. p. 281, line 23Toil on heroes! toil well! handle the weapons well!
  16. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  17. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  18. p. 288, line 3When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs,
  19. p. 288, line 18What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
  20. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
  21. p. 294, line 29Turning from all the samples, monuments of heroes.
  22. p. 320, line 22(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,
  23. p. 336, line 13The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  24. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  25. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  26. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
  27. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.
  28. p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
  29. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
  30. p. 421, line 5All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,

heroic 9

  1. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  2. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  3. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  4. p. 306, line 13Star panting o'er a land of death, heroic land,
  5. 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!
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  1. p. 363, line 7How all heroic martyrdoms to it!
  2. p. 432, line 15[…] of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend […]
  3. p. 436, line 36[…] evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases […]
  4. p. 437, line 22[…] the United States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to […]

heroism 5

  1. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  2. p. 21, line 21And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
  3. p. 294, line 26Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.
  4. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,
  5. p. 435, line 43[…] pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their […]

heroism's 2

  1. p. 159, line 1The same undying soul of earth's, activity's, beauty's, heroism's expression,
  2. p. 213, line 27All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts,

heron 1

  1. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,

herons 1

  1. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,

hero's 1

  1. p. 12, line 23Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils,

herring-fishery 1

  1. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

hers 3

  1. p. 51, line 22I hear the train'd soprano (what work with hers is this?)
  2. p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
  3. p. 216, line 18She hers, he his, pursuing.

herself 11

  1. p. 54, line 15In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  2. p. 86, line 11She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  3. p. 157, line 15She is silent, she is possess'd of herself, they do not offend her,
  4. p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,
  5. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
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  1. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  2. p. 217, line 14A MASK, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
  3. p. 276, line 26Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself.
  4. p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
  5. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  6. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,

hesiod 1

  1. p. 415, line 2Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur,

hiccupp'd 1 today: hiccupped

  1. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,

hiccupped see hiccupp'd

hickory 1

  1. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,

hid 7

  1. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  2. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,
  3. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  4. p. 296, line 13The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)
  5. p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
  6. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.
  7. p. 390, line 5As of speakers far or hid.

hidden 8

  1. p. 159, line 3Hidden and cover'd by to-day's, foundation of to-day's,
  2. p. 167, line 23You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal'd but ever alert,
  3. p. 256, line 5A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
  4. p. 309, line 21Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,
  5. p. 310, line 16Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,
  6. p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
  7. p. 419, line 4"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely hidden?
  8. p. 421, line 19UNSEEN buds, infinite, hidden well,

hide 4

  1. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
  2. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  3. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  4. p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,

hideous 2

  1. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  2. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

hideous-faced 1

  1. p. 67, line 10With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image,

hides 6

  1. p. 37, line 5She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  2. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  3. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  4. p. 117, line 4I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
  5. p. 255, line 15O great star disappear'd—O the black murk that hides the star!
  6. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,

hiding 4

  1. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
  2. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,
  3. p. 326, line 20I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  4. p. 362, line 29Hiding yet lingering.

hieroglyphic 1

  1. p. 33, line 10Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,

higgling 1

  1. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)

high 74

  1. p. 21, line 17(However high the head of any else that head is over all.)
  2. p. 50, line 2Scooting obliquely high and low.
  3. p. 55, line 7Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
  4. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
  5. p. 61, line 5The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
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  1. p. 63, line 10He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
  2. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  3. p. 85, line 18Whatever the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
  4. p. 96, line 24(I am not sure but the high soul of lovers welcomes death most,)
  5. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  6. p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
  7. p. 112, line 18What are the mountains call'd that rise so high in the mists?
  8. p. 115, line 22I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
  9. 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.
  10. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  11. p. 120, line 20I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal,
  12. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  13. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  14. p. 130, line 15Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
  15. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  16. p. 133, line 20Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
  17. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  18. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  19. p. 140, line 4On rivers boatmen safely moor'd at nightfall in their boats under shelter of high banks,
  20. p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
  21. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
  22. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
  23. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  24. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,
  25. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  26. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  27. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  28. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  29. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  30. 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,
  31. p. 182, line 3High in the purer, happier air.
  32. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  33. p. 184, line 14Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,)
  34. p. 199, line 1High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves,
  35. p. 208, line 22WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
  36. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  37. p. 216, line 11The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
  38. p. 223, line 13Low on the ground and high in the air,
  39. p. 224, line 11Fresh and rosy red the sun is mounting high,
  40. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
  41. p. 228, line 21I mark'd the white combs where they career'd so high, curling over,
  42. p. 235, line 19Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
  43. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  44. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;
  45. p. 268, line 5(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
  46. p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,
  47. p. 278, line 23The high dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars,
  48. p. 296, line 8But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.
  49. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;
  50. p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
  51. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,
  52. p. 313, line 19I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the martial clang of cymbals,
  53. p. 314, line 11Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows,
  54. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,
  55. p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
  56. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,
  57. p. 354, line 24I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,
  58. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  59. p. 356, line 13Was fill'd with aspirations high, unform'd ideals,
  60. p. 357, line 7Lo, where the monks walk in advance, bearing the cross on high.
  61. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  62. p. 385, line 18High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,
  63. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;
  64. p. 390, line 21Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling,
  65. p. 400, line 24No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—North, South, all,
  66. p. 402, line 21Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
  67. p. 407, line 36[…] time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing […]
  68. p. 427, line 23[…] or choice plots of love or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say […]

high-borne 2

  1. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
  2. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;

higher 9

  1. p. 12, line 30Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
  2. p. 13, line 34Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
  3. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
  4. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  5. p. 226, line 4Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!
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  1. p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
  2. p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!
  3. p. 358, line 12Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet,
  4. p. 429, line 3[…] is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements of modern song […]

highest 4

  1. p. 54, line 1And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest,
  2. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  3. p. 368, line 3Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
  4. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,

high-hole 1

  1. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,

highland 1

  1. p. 283, line 25The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between,

highlands 1

  1. p. 116, line 21I see the highlands of Abyssinia,

highly 1

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

high-piled 1

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

high-spired 1

  1. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,

high-spread 1

  1. p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,

highway 1

  1. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?

highways 1

  1. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,

hilarity 2

  1. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  2. p. 375, line 2In the hilarity of youth,

hill 10

  1. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  2. p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
  3. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  4. p. 233, line 12The General watch'd them from this hill,
  5. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
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  1. p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
  2. p. 286, line 17Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk, the lilacs bloom in the dooryards,
  3. p. 389, line 3Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)*
  4. p. 391, line 8Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,
  5. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)

hills 24

  1. p. 42, line 14At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch,
  2. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
  3. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  4. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  5. p. 130, line 21Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward,
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  1. p. 131, line 16I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine,
  2. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
  3. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  4. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,
  5. p. 154, line 7Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-cover'd hills of Scandinavia,
  6. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!
  7. p. 210, line 20To your graves—back—back to the hills old limpers!
  8. p. 232, line 10Over hills, across lowlands, and in the skirts of woods,
  9. p. 233, line 15But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!
  10. p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
  11. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  12. p. 254, line 24To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,
  13. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  14. p. 321, line 14Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,
  15. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,
  16. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
  17. p. 359, line 20Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd,
  18. p. 366, line 10Again the forenoon purple of the hills,
  19. p. 366, line 16O forenoon purple of the hills, before I close, of you!

hillside 1

  1. p. 89, line 24The hillside whiten'd with blossoms of the mountain ash,

hill-sides 2

  1. p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  2. p. 143, line 1O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides!

hill-top 3

  1. p. 231, line 16The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (make room gentlemen,)
  2. p. 232, line 14Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.
  3. p. 402, line 17Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,

hill-tops 1

  1. p. 420, line 16Or plainly there to the left on the hill-tops.

him 195

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Himalayas 1

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

himself 45

  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  2. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  3. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
  4. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
  5. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
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  1. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
  2. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  3. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  4. 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;
  5. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
  6. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  7. p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,
  8. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  9. p. 160, line 9(Would the son separate himself from the father?)
  10. p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,
  11. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
  12. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
  13. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  14. p. 240, line 14Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,
  15. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  16. p. 248, line 16Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,)
  17. p. 256, line 7The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements,
  18. p. 256, line 8Sings by himself a song.
  19. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  20. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  21. p. 270, line 27He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,
  22. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  23. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  24. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  25. p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
  26. p. 303, line 8First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
  27. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  28. p. 310, line 5Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
  29. p. 320, line 16Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself,
  30. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  31. 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,
  32. p. 355, line 6They show their descent from the Master himself.
  33. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  34. p. 395, line 8Watching the coming, going of the vessels, he mutters to himself—And now the close of all:
  35. p. 400, line 5A queer old savage man, a fighter under Washington himself,
  36. p. 417, line 2He slowly rais'd himself from the bed on the floor,
  37. p. 427, line 33[…] the ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America […]
  38. p. 435, line 16[…] avowedly chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more or less a motif […]

hind-feet 1

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

Hindoo 3

  1. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  2. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  3. p. 433, line 6[…] Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them […]

hind-shoulders 1

  1. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,

Hindu 2

  1. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
  2. p. 414, line 26The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian,

Hindustan 2

  1. p. 95, line 5For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
  2. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,

Hindustanee 1

  1. p. 154, line 4Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,

hind-ways 1

  1. p. 56, line 19Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,

hinge 1

  1. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,

hinged 3

  1. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
  2. p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
  3. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,

hinges 1

  1. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,

hinted 2

  1. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  2. p. 171, line 10It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.

hinting 1

  1. p. 434, line 15[…] out with the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not […]

hints 8

  1. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  2. p. 23, line 18These selecting, these in hints demanded of me.
  3. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
  4. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  5. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  6. p. 175, line 5In them the development good—in them all themes, hints, possibilities.
  7. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
  8. p. 294, line 16Gathering these hints, the preludes, the blue sky, the grass, the morning drops of dew,

hip 4

  1. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  2. p. 98, line 13Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
  3. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,

hip-band 1

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

hips 9

  1. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  2. p. 81, line 6From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,
  3. p. 82, line 1It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  4. p. 84, line 2Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all dif fused, mine too diffused,
  5. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
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  1. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
  2. p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
  3. p. 138, line 16Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
  4. p. 150, line 24The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,

hip-sockets 1

  1. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,

hip-strength 1

  1. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,

hirsute 1

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,

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hiss 4

  1. p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  2. p. 142, line 20To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!
  3. p. 311, line 10The hiss and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,
  4. p. 392, line 16And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laughter,

hissing 6

  1. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  2. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
  3. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  4. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
  5. p. 228, line 7O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
  6. p. 230, line 3Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;

historians 1

  1. p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,

historic 1

  1. p. 370, line 17What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

historical 1

  1. p. 428, line 12[…] of national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent facts of the United States—the war […]

histories 6

  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,
  2. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 288, line 18What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
  5. p. 388, line 3The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
  6. p. 397, line 4"Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all,

history 10

  1. p. 11, line 10I project the history of the future.
  2. p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?
  3. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  4. p. 263, line 29Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
  5. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
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  1. p. 317, line 25Along all history, down the slopes,
  2. p. 403, line 16Each song of mine—each utterance in the past—having its long, long history,
  3. p. 413, line 34[…] five or six names, under Lincoln's Presidency, that history will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the […]
  4. p. 430, line 34[…] as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate […]
  5. p. 431, line 20[…] the splendid day-rise of science and resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical works are not our […]

history's 5

  1. p. 160, line 23Earth's modern wonder, history's seven outstripping,
  2. p. 320, line 17(History's type of courage, action, faith,)
  3. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
  4. p. 368, line 8Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
  5. p. 392, line 25From that great play on history's stage eterne,

histrion 1

  1. p. 320, line 14As the chief histrion,

hit 2

  1. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  2. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;

hither 16

  1. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
  2. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
  3. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  4. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,
  5. p. 193, line 8OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
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  1. p. 197, line 7Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
  2. p. 199, line 29Hither my love!
  3. p. 204, line 3Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
  4. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  5. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  6. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,
  7. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
  8. p. 261, line 20And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,
  9. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
  10. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  11. p. 431, line 11[…] name those old and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain […]

hitherto 8

  1. p. 95, line 20From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,
  2. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  3. p. 426, line 38[…] life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally […]
  4. p. 427, line 2[…] far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  5. p. 429, line 21[…] of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and the unprecedented stimulants of to-day […]
  6. p. 430, line 22[…] our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life and […]
  7. p. 431, line 10[…] bequest to current American civilization from all the hitherto ages, I am not sure but I would name those […]
  8. p. 434, line 27[…] in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and Hope […]

hitherward 1

  1. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,

hits 1

  1. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.

hive 2

  1. p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
  2. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,

hive-bees 1

  1. p. 194, line 22The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees,

hoard 1

  1. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,

hoarse 8

  1. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,
  2. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  3. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,
  4. p. 198, line 1Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
  5. p. 202, line 4Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant,
  6. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  7. p. 209, line 2Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
  8. p. 302, line 8The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone, the light-press'd blade,

hobbling 2

  1. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  2. p. 410, line 19To-day at twilight, hobbling, answering company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,

hod 1

  1. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;

hod-men 1

  1. p. 150, line 19The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod-men;

hoe 4

  1. p. 40, line 8As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle,
  2. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
  3. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  4. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,

hoeing 2

  1. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
  2. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,

hoes 1

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

hog 1

  1. p. 132, line 9The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,

hog-hook 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,

hog's-lard 1

  1. p. 353, line 25And more of the drug-shelf, laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's-lard,

hoist 1

  1. p. 322, line 35Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!

hoist-up 1

  1. p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,

hold 36

  1. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  2. p. 41, line 8The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,
  3. p. 63, line 5They hold out bravely during the whole of the action.
  4. p. 72, line 3They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  5. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
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  1. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  2. p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  3. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  4. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  5. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  6. p. 159, line 26But hold—don't I forget my manners?
  7. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  8. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  9. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  10. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  11. p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
  12. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  13. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  14. p. 245, line 2Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,
  15. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  16. p. 255, line 16O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
  17. p. 261, line 32Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades' hands,
  18. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  19. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  20. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  21. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  22. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
  23. p. 316, line 12O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!
  24. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  25. p. 346, line 9(Strong is your hold O mortal flesh,
  26. p. 346, line 10Strong is your hold O love.)
  27. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  28. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
  29. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  30. p. 382, line 10It is I you hold and who holds you,

holders 1

  1. p. 262, line 16With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,

holdest 1

  1. p. 348, line 17Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone,

holding 30

  1. p. 27, line 9With me with firm holding, yet haste, haste on.
  2. p. 29, line 5O to haste firm holding—to haste, haste on with me.
  3. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
  4. p. 52, line 20Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
  5. p. 56, line 7Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs,
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  1. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
  2. p. 97, line 20WHOEVER you are holding me now in hand,
  3. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  4. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
  5. p. 157, line 25How near his work is holding him to God,
  6. p. 163, line 16Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all,
  7. p. 177, line 29Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
  8. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  9. p. 183, line 27Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways,
  10. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  11. p. 206, line 7From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
  12. p. 227, line 11Fusing and holding, claiming, devouring the whole,
  13. p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,
  14. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
  15. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.
  16. p. 260, line 1And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,
  17. p. 262, line 16With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird,
  18. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  19. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
  20. p. 319, line 16The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,
  21. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,
  22. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  23. p. 389, line 23Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?
  24. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  25. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,

holds 26

  1. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  2. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  3. p. 38, line 1The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  4. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  5. p. 78, line 19The last scud of day holds back for me,
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  1. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  2. p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
  3. p. 94, line 18Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
  4. p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  5. p. 210, line 2Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.
  6. p. 257, line 28The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.
  7. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  8. p. 259, line 12Yet the lilac with mastering odor holds me.
  9. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  10. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  11. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
  12. p. 328, line 8He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out,
  13. 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,
  14. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  15. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  16. p. 382, line 10It is I you hold and who holds you,
  17. p. 390, line 21Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling,
  18. p. 431, line 3[…] displace those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though […]
  19. p. 431, line 27[…] belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past […]

hole 2

  1. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  2. p. 353, line 19Some milk-nosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

holes 1

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

holiday 1

  1. p. 280, line 17No holiday soldiers—youthful, yet veterans,

hollow 3

  1. p. 61, line 13Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for breastworks,
  2. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  3. p. 433, line 10[…] northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the sea on each side […]

hollows 3

  1. p. 54, line 14In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  2. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  3. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,

holy 4

  1. p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
  2. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  3. p. 356, line 21A holy calm descends like dew upon me,
  4. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;

home 44

  1. p. 18, line 19Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring,
  2. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  3. p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
  4. p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
  5. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
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  1. p. 42, line 14At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch,
  2. p. 58, line 4Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,)
  3. p. 66, line 19Let the physician and the priest go home.
  4. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  5. p. 95, line 9Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
  6. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  7. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  8. p. 131, line 20In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me,
  9. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  10. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  11. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  12. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  13. p. 157, line 6The door whence the son left home confident and puff'd up,
  14. p. 164, line 27Without thee neither all nor each, nor land, home,
  15. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  16. p. 197, line 28Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
  17. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
  18. p. 218, line 12LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
  19. p. 236, line 15Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that are far away;
  20. p. 237, line 22While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
  21. p. 248, line 4And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes,
  22. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  23. p. 283, line 14The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,
  24. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  25. p. 293, line 15And youth's convulsive breathings, memories of home,
  26. p. 295, line 5In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
  27. p. 309, line 15Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
  28. p. 311, line 33The journey done, the journeyman come home,
  29. p. 313, line 22Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
  30. p. 323, line 14Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
  31. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  32. p. 330, line 8The sailor sails, the exile returns home,
  33. p. 330, line 12The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
  34. p. 398, line 25Close home, elusive, present, baffled, grappled.
  35. p. 420, line 8Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs in corners,

home-givers 1

  1. p. 157, line 22Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,

homeliest 1

  1. p. 37, line 7Ah the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

homely 2

  1. p. 57, line 24Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
  2. p. 330, line 21The stammerer, the sick, the perfect-form'd, the homely,

Homer 4

  1. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
  2. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
  3. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,
  4. p. 433, line 4[…] the best translated versions I could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems […]

Homeric 1

  1. p. 438, line 36[…] that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and […]

homes 5

  1. p. 120, line 22For all the haunts and homes of men.
  2. p. 167, line 27Here build your homes for good, establish here, these areas entire, lands of the Western shore,
  3. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  4. p. 339, line 20Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of affection,
  5. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!

homestead 3

  1. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  2. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  3. p. 329, line 11A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead,

homesteads 2

  1. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  2. p. 374, line 7Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads,

homeward 3

  1. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  2. p. 258, line 18And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
  3. p. 330, line 16The homeward bound and the outward bound,

homogeneous 1

  1. p. 434, line 12[…] real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the experiences […]

honest 3

  1. p. 126, line 3Listen! I will be honest with you,
  2. p. 290, line 22All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded,
  3. p. 355, line 4This face of a healthy honest boy is the programme of all good.

honestly 1

  1. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)

honey 3

  1. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;
  2. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
  3. p. 355, line 16Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,

honey-bees 1

  1. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,

honey'd 1 today: honeyed

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

honeyed see honey'd

honey-juice 1

  1. p. 265, line 18Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice,

honorable 1

  1. 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.

honor'd 2 today: honored

  1. p. 161, line 16None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.
  2. p. 388, line 19Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war;

honored see honor'd

honoring 1

  1. p. 69, line 22Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,

honors 2

  1. p. 47, line 25Gentlemen, to you the first honors always!
  2. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

hooded 1

  1. p. 53, line 4Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!

hoofs 2

  1. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  2. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.

hook 2

  1. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
  2. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,

hook-and-ladder 1

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

hook'd 3 today: hooked

  1. p. 112, line 9Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
  2. p. 150, line 10The hook'd arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,
  3. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,

hooked see hook'd

hooking 1

  1. p. 73, line 22My left hand hooking you round the waist,

hooks 1

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

hoop 1

  1. p. 155, line 16Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,

hoop'd 1 today: hooped

  1. p. 232, line 18Rude forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted,

hooped see hoop'd

hoops 1

  1. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,

Hoosac 1

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

Hoosier 1

  1. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;

hoot 2

  1. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,

hope 13

  1. p. 101, line 3That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
  2. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  3. p. 211, line 15O hope and faith!
  4. p. 284, line 12Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope and heir,
  5. p. 306, line 2The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
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  1. p. 319, line 7He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)
  2. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  3. p. 358, line 4Thou takest away all cheering light, all hope,
  4. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  5. p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
  6. p. 386, line 2My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
  7. p. 394, line 14Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!
  8. p. 434, line 28[…] Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and Hope […]

hopeful 2

  1. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 429, line 33[…] humanity at the time, and its gloomy or hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their […]

hopes 5

  1. p. 88, line 11All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
  2. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  3. p. 390, line 8Love's unresponse—a chorus of age's complaints—hope's last words,
  4. p. 412, line 24Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,
  5. p. 434, line 8[…] afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too […]

hoping 1

  1. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.

hopples 1

  1. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,

hops 2

  1. p. 164, line 16Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops,
  2. p. 294, line 6The robin where he hops, bright-eyed, brown-breasted,

horde 1

  1. 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,

hordes 2

  1. p. 119, line 22You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd hordes!
  2. p. 336, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,

horizon 4

  1. p. 10, line 19The boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here,
  2. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  3. p. 216, line 23And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
  4. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,

horizon's 3

  1. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
  2. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  3. p. 412, line 1FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,

horn 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 312, line 31Hears the infernal call, the death-pledge of the horn.

horns 1

  1. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,

horrible 1

  1. p. 419, line 22The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant,

horribly 2

  1. p. 39, line 30What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
  2. p. 62, line 12Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.

horrifies 1

  1. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.

horror 1

  1. p. 417, line 17Although I come and unannounc'd, in horror and in pang,

horrors 5

  1. p. 32, line 4Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events;
  2. 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,
  3. p. 363, line 8How, justified by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
  4. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  5. p. 411, line 43[…] day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors. I had more than once the same experience on the […]

horse 4

  1. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
  2. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  3. p. 61, line 18Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
  4. p. 113, line 4I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse,

horseback 1

  1. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;

horse-block 1

  1. p. 56, line 26Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,

horse-herd 1

  1. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!

horseman 1

  1. p. 82, line 8The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,

horseman's 1

  1. p. 143, line 4O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys!

horsemen 3

  1. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,
  2. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!
  3. p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,

horse-path 1

  1. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;

horse-power 1

  1. p. 281, line 29The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines,

horses 21

  1. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 38, line 1The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,
  3. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
  4. p. 60, line 7The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
  5. p. 82, line 12The young fellow hoeing corn, the sleigh-driver driving his six horses through the crowd,
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  1. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,
  2. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
  3. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  4. p. 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. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
  6. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
  7. p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
  8. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  9. p. 236, line 6With artillery interspers'd—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
  10. p. 281, line 16Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine,
  11. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
  12. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
  13. p. 361, line 10The carts hauling goods, the manly race of drivers of horses, the brown-faced sailors,
  14. p. 366, line 24In the midst of their little circle, with their slaughter'd horses for breastworks,
  15. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,
  16. p. 413, line 14The sound of horses' hoofs departing—saddles, arms, accoutrements.

horsewoman's 1

  1. p. 143, line 4O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys!

hose-carts 1

  1. p. 51, line 11The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,

hospitable 4

  1. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  2. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)

hospital 12

  1. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  3. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  4. p. 220, line 26The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines,
  5. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
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  1. p. 239, line 6'Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital,
  2. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  3. p. 242, line 22Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof'd hospital,
  4. p. 243, line 3On, on I go, (open doors of time! open hospital doors!)
  5. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  6. p. 391, line 2The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and the dead,

hospitality 2

  1. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  2. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,

hospitals 4

  1. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  2. p. 243, line 24Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals,
  3. p. 408, line 22[…] campaigns or contests, or after them, or in hospitals or fields south of Washington City, or in that place […]
  4. p. 411, line 33During the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to […]

host 1

  1. p. 69, line 13In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?

hostess 1

  1. p. 69, line 13In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?

hostler 3

  1. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  2. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  3. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,

hot 19

  1. p. 55, line 26Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the shallow river,
  2. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
  3. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
  4. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
  5. p. 112, line 22Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
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  1. p. 132, line 7Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
  2. p. 145, line 3The furnace, the hot liquid pour'd out and running.
  3. p. 194, line 13Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,
  4. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,
  5. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  6. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  7. p. 253, line 22The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manœuvre,
  8. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  9. p. 327, line 9I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  10. p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
  11. p. 381, line 22Sparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
  12. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,
  13. p. 408, line 23[…] City, or in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North […]
  14. p. 410, line 18As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or haply after battle,

hot-blooded 1

  1. p. 400, line 6(Large, brave, cleanly, hot-blooded, no talker, rather spiritualistic,

hotel 1

  1. p. 245, line 19The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!

hotels 2

  1. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  2. p. 394, line 17Thy windows rich, and huge hotels—thy side-walks wide;)

hot-spurr'd 1

  1. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;

Hottentot 1

  1. p. 119, line 22You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd hordes!

hounded 2

  1. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  2. p. 60, line 3I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs,

hour 42

  1. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
  2. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  3. p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
  4. p. 44, line 6This hour I tell things in confidence,
  5. p. 75, line 8I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
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  1. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  2. p. 81, line 12From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
  3. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  4. p. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  5. p. 92, line 11With one brief hour of madness and joy.
  6. p. 92, line 22As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;
  7. p. 109, line 22It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
  8. p. 122, line 22From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
  9. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  10. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  11. p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
  12. 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,
  13. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  14. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  15. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  16. p. 190, line 17Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries.
  17. p. 201, line 29My own songs awaked from that hour,
  18. p. 210, line 18Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
  19. p. 217, line 16Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
  20. p. 218, line 6HAST never come to thee an hour,
  21. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
  22. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  23. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  24. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  25. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  26. p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
  27. p. 301, line 17To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
  28. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  29. p. 369, line 22THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
  30. p. 374, line 15Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,
  31. p. 411, line 37[…] or I thought so) the effect of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and […]
  32. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  33. p. 418, line 6A day—a passing moment or an hour—America itself bends low,
  34. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,
  35. p. 425, line 14[…] lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet […]

hourly 2

  1. p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
  2. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,

hours 18

  1. p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,
  2. p. 90, line 9The wet of woods through the early hours,
  3. p. 129, line 15The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,
  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. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
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  1. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  2. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,
  3. p. 253, line 1SPIRIT whose work is done—spirit of dreadful hours!
  4. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  5. p. 341, line 8YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also,
  6. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,
  7. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
  8. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  9. p. 407, line 17[…] nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d year—hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in shape […]
  10. p. 408, line 8[…] about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am I […]
  11. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors. I […]

house 56

  1. p. 26, line 7Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
  2. p. 27, line 1Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,
  3. p. 31, line 16Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty,
  4. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
  5. p. 37, line 4She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
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  1. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  2. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  3. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  4. p. 66, line 24Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
  5. p. 67, line 15Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
  6. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  7. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  8. p. 95, line 3I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
  9. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  10. p. 107, line 19Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house,
  11. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  12. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  13. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
  14. p. 161, line 14One stately house shall be the music house,
  15. p. 163, line 2The house-comforts, the house itself and all its belongings,
  16. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  17. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  18. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  19. p. 212, line 25Is the house shut? is the master away?
  20. p. 266, line 3Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne from the house,
  21. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  22. p. 285, line 5But the house alone—that wondrous house—that delicate fair house—that ruin!
  23. p. 285, line 6That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built!
  24. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  25. p. 285, line 10Unclaim'd, avoided house—take one breath from my tremulous lips,
  26. p. 285, line 12Dead house of love—house of madness and sin, crumbled, crush'd,
  27. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  28. p. 285, line 14Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house—but dead, dead, dead.
  29. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  30. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  31. p. 309, line 14Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,
  32. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  33. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,
  34. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  35. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  36. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  37. p. 346, line 2From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house,
  38. p. 347, line 4The paths to the house I seek to make,
  39. p. 347, line 5But leave to those to come the house itself.
  40. p. 355, line 8In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
  41. p. 393, line 21Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on land, or day or night,
  42. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  43. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,

house-builder 1

  1. p. 150, line 4The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,

house-building 1

  1. p. 173, line 17House-building, measuring, sawing the boards,

house-comforts 1

  1. p. 163, line 2The house-comforts, the house itself and all its belongings,

housed 2

  1. p. 295, line 29The hungry fed, the houseless housed;
  2. p. 336, line 7The guest that was coming, he waited long, he is now housed,

household 3

  1. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
  2. p. 68, line 11Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
  3. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

house-keepers 1

  1. p. 82, line 9Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their performances,

houseless 1

  1. p. 295, line 29The hungry fed, the houseless housed;

house-raisings 1

  1. p. 57, line 4At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;

house-room 1

  1. p. 295, line 25Marriage, the street, the factory, farm, the house-room, lodging-room,

houses 36

  1. p. 29, line 19Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  2. p. 54, line 15In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
  3. p. 55, line 22By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen,
  4. p. 69, line 13In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  5. p. 105, line 8Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
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  1. p. 122, line 1You rows of houses! you window-pierc'd façades! you roofs!
  2. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  3. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
  4. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  5. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  6. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
  7. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  8. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  9. p. 219, line 19Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
  10. p. 220, line 1From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the doorways,
  11. p. 222, line 13Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds,
  12. p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
  13. p. 225, line 4But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
  14. p. 226, line 18O my father I like not the houses,
  15. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  16. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  17. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  18. p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,
  19. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  20. p. 259, line 20And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages,
  21. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  22. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  23. p. 301, line 4Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  24. p. 334, line 1To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  25. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  26. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  27. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,
  28. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  29. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,

house-sill 1

  1. p. 39, line 1The sharp-hoof'd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

house-tops 1

  1. p. 246, line 7Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,

housework 2

  1. p. 335, line 8Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  2. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,

hovel 2

  1. p. 57, line 6Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
  2. p. 249, line 9Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,

hovels 1

  1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,

hover 1

  1. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;

hovering 6

  1. p. 182, line 2An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,
  2. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
  3. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
  4. p. 356, line 7Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.
  5. p. 426, line 37[…] had been flitting through my previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to […]

how 231

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however 16

  1. p. 21, line 17(However high the head of any else that head is over all.)
  2. p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
  3. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  4. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  5. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
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  1. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  2. p. 207, line 14All distances of place however wide,
  3. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  4. p. 309, line 22Acknowledging rapport however far remov'd,
  5. p. 407, line 25However that may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and […]
  6. p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,
  7. p. 431, line 29[…] singers life has yet given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges […]
  8. p. 433, line 32[…] and to which all should return from straying however far a distance, must be an identical body and soul […]
  9. p. 433, line 39These, however, and much more might have gone on and come to […]

howl 1

  1. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,

howler 1

  1. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,

howls 2

  1. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
  2. 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.

hub 1

  1. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,

hubb'd 1 today: hubbed

  1. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,

hubbed see hubb'd

hucksters 1

  1. p. 67, line 5Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,

huddle 1

  1. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)

Hudson 3

  1. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
  2. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
  3. p. 296, line 7You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone,

Hudson's 1

  1. 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,

hue 2

  1. p. 42, line 19Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
  2. p. 250, line 7Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,

hued 1

  1. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,

hues 7

  1. p. 12, line 2Passing the hues and objects of the world,
  2. p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
  3. p. 160, line 25Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,
  4. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  5. p. 320, line 13Enhuing it with gorgeous hues.
  6. p. 388, line 21As gorgeous, vapory, silent hues cover the evening sky,
  7. p. 404, line 3The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,

hug 2

  1. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  2. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)

huge 24

  1. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  2. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  3. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
  4. p. 138, line 16Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
  5. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
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  1. p. 144, line 9There in a huge kettle of boiling water the lobsters shall be boil'd till their color becomes scarlet.
  2. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
  3. p. 150, line 14The huge storehouse carried up in the city well under way,
  4. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  5. p. 166, line 30With Nature's calm content, with tacit huge delight,
  6. p. 167, line 5These huge precipitous cliffs, this amplitude, these valleys, far Yosemite,
  7. p. 173, line 22Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains or by river-banks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars, lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal,
  8. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,
  9. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  10. p. 245, line 19The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!
  11. p. 260, line 33And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
  12. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  13. p. 283, line 24Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank'd wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries,
  14. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  15. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
  16. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  17. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
  18. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,
  19. p. 394, line 17Thy windows rich, and huge hotels—thy side-walks wide;)

hugg'd 1 today: hugged

  1. p. 71, line 25Long I was hugg'd close—long and long.

hugged see hugg'd

hugging 1

  1. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,

Hugo 1

  1. p. 434, line 36[…] Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say […]

Huguenots 1

  1. p. 313, line 12I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert,

hulk 1

  1. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,

hulls 3

  1. p. 63, line 14Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
  2. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
  3. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.

hum 7

  1. p. 32, line 18Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice.
  2. p. 39, line 23The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  3. p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
  4. p. 245, line 9Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;
  5. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  6. p. 310, line 15Strong hum of forest tree-tops—wind of the mountains,
  7. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,

human 34

  1. p. 12, line 25Of every human life,
  2. p. 51, line 4I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,
  3. p. 56, line 15Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
  4. p. 69, line 16Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless human brain,
  5. p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
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  1. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  2. p. 118, line 7I see the defective human bodies of the earth,
  3. p. 119, line 24You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
  4. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
  5. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  6. 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.
  7. p. 160, line 5And yet the same old human race, the same within, without,
  8. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,
  9. p. 176, line 7Human bodies are words, myriads of words,
  10. p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
  11. p. 249, line 17What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
  12. p. 259, line 8Loud human song, with voice of uttermost woe.
  13. p. 295, line 31The workings, details, haply human.)
  14. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
  15. p. 324, line 17Haply the brutish measureless human undergrowth I know,
  16. p. 338, line 5Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
  17. p. 338, line 20(Or is it the plashing of tears? the measureless waters of human tears?)
  18. p. 390, line 24Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound,
  19. p. 391, line 9Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:
  20. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  21. p. 394, line 10What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
  22. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;
  23. p. 421, line 7All human lives, throats, wishes, brains—all experiences' utterance;
  24. p. 429, line 24[…] features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is certain that a […]
  25. p. 432, line 15[…] of all, and object of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything […]
  26. p. 433, line 20[…] never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for […]
  27. p. 436, line 29[…] must stand or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]
  28. p. 437, line 11[…] beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of […]
  29. p. 438, line 11[…] first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century […]

human-divine 1

  1. p. 281, line 27The human-divine inventions, the labor-saving implements;

humanitarian 1

  1. p. 20, line 1Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian!

humanities 1

  1. p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.

humanity 20

  1. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  2. p. 168, line 15The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all,
  3. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  4. p. 188, line 15Could I wish humanity different?
  5. p. 214, line 1FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
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  1. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  2. p. 358, line 7Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feuds and hatreds,
  3. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,
  4. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  5. p. 391, line 22Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
  6. p. 415, line 23The height to be superb humanity.
  7. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,
  8. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;
  9. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
  10. p. 427, line 25[…] euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and […]
  11. p. 429, line 32[…] radius, with the coloring of the moods of humanity at the time, and its gloomy or hopeful prospects, behind […]
  12. p. 431, line 35[…] said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these the old poems […]
  13. p. 434, line 30[…] the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his […]
  14. p. 435, line 7[…] political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors […]
  15. p. 437, line 26[…] up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the common sense—is the […]

humanity's 1

  1. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,

Humboldt 1

  1. p. 317, line 11I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,

humiliation 2

  1. p. 321, line 9(Let others deprecate, let others weep for sin, remorse, humiliation,)
  2. p. 358, line 6I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race, it becomes all mine,

humility 1

  1. p. 435, line 18[…] American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and self-questioning […]

hummer 1

  1. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,

humming-bird 2

  1. p. 57, line 11Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,
  2. p. 360, line 13The humming-bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum;

hummock-land 1

  1. p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,

Hun 1

  1. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!

hunchbacks 1

  1. p. 118, line 8The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,

hundred 20

  1. p. 19, line 24Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
  2. p. 39, line 5The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
  3. p. 61, line 11The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
  4. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  5. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
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  1. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  2. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  3. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
  4. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  5. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  6. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  7. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  8. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  9. p. 249, line 11Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd,
  10. 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?
  11. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  12. p. 307, line 26Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms,
  13. p. 380, line 15When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
  14. p. 426, line 21[…] and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point […]

hundreds 7

  1. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  2. p. 131, line 14What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
  3. p. 261, line 18I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags,
  4. p. 292, line 10(There by the hundreds seated, sear-faced murderers, wily counterfeiters,
  5. p. 295, line 13Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,
  6. p. 412, line 22AFTER a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials,

hung 6

  1. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  2. p. 105, line 22All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
  3. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  4. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  5. p. 326, line 3The murderer that is to be hung next day, how does he sleep?
  6. p. 349, line 23Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so long upon the mind of man,

Hungarian 1

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

hunger 3

  1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  2. p. 43, line 18This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
  3. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,

hungering 4

  1. p. 228, line 15Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour'd what the earth gave me,
  2. p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,

hungry 4

  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,
  3. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  4. p. 295, line 29The hungry fed, the houseless housed;

hunt 2

  1. p. 36, line 1Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  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,

hunter 1

  1. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,

hunters 8

  1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  2. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  3. p. 61, line 20Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
  4. p. 76, line 1My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  5. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  6. p. 267, line 13The unsurvey'd interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers,
  7. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,

hunting 2

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. p. 184, line 3From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,

hunting-shirt 1

  1. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,

Huron 3

  1. p. 26, line 10Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan!
  2. p. 40, line 11The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,
  3. p. 347, line 19Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,

Huron's 1

  1. p. 391, line 15Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:

hurrah 1

  1. p. 47, line 20Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!

hurrahs 2

  1. p. 35, line 10The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous'd mobs,
  2. p. 396, line 26Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clapping hands, the loud applause;

hurricane 1

  1. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,

hurricanes 1

  1. p. 392, line 7Thy brooding scowl and murk—thy unloos'd hurricanes,

hurried 8

  1. p. 63, line 10He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
  2. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  3. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!
  4. p. 231, line 3City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
  5. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  6. p. 361, line 16City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
  7. p. 395, line 25From these, for these, with these, a hurried line, dead tenor,
  8. p. 411, line 13The pomp and hurried contest-glare and rush are done;

hurriedly 2

  1. p. 197, line 7Borne hither, ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
  2. p. 408, line 26[…] exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of […]

hurries 2

  1. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  2. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.

hurry 8

  1. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
  2. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  3. p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
  4. p. 104, line 10Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
  5. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  6. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  7. p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
  8. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;

hurrying 8

  1. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
  2. p. 104, line 14O none more than I hurrying in and out;
  3. p. 201, line 17Delaying not, hurrying not,
  4. p. 222, line 3I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
  5. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  6. p. 284, line 3The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
  7. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  8. p. 394, line 10What hurrying human tides, or day or night!

hurt 4

  1. p. 71, line 24And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
  2. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  3. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
  4. p. 358, line 5I see the enslaved, the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the whole earth,

hurtled 1

  1. p. 270, line 18The cannons ope their rosy-flashing muzzles—the hurtled balls scream,

hurts 1

  1. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

husband 17

  1. p. 41, line 24The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  2. p. 81, line 4From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
  3. p. 88, line 19I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
  4. p. 98, line 11For I am the new husband and I am the comrade.
  5. p. 102, line 7Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
11 more lines
  1. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  2. p. 128, line 9No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession,
  3. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  4. p. 163, line 1The family, parentage, childhood, husband and wife,
  5. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  6. p. 170, line 21The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  7. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  8. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  9. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,
  10. 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,
  11. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,

husbands 5

  1. p. 87, line 2Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
  2. p. 98, line 10With the comrade's long-dwelling kiss or the new husband's kiss,
  3. p. 312, line 3The manly strophe of the husbands of the world,
  4. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
  5. p. 378, line 11In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,

hush 4

  1. p. 50, line 29With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
  2. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  3. p. 72, line 24And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  4. p. 293, line 13A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute,

hush'd 2 today: hushed

  1. p. 217, line 11The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.
  2. p. 263, line 15HUSH'D be the camps to-day,

hushed see hush'd

husk 1

  1. 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;

huskings 1

  1. p. 57, line 4At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;

husks 2

  1. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  2. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,

husky 6

  1. p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  2. p. 100, line 24Not in husky pantings through clinch'd teeth,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  5. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
  6. p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,

husky-haughty 2

  1. p. 384, line 31[…] Then Last of All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from […]
  2. p. 392, line 1With husky-haughty lips, O sea!

husky-nois'd 1

  1. p. 199, line 25And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,

hut 7

  1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  2. p. 117, line 24I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,
  3. p. 149, line 13The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for a garden,
  4. p. 155, line 10Hut, tent, landing, survey,
  5. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  6. 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;)
  7. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,

huts 5

  1. p. 55, line 22By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen,
  2. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  3. p. 117, line 24I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,
  4. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  5. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

hylas 1

  1. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,

hymen 1

  1. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?

hymenee 1

  1. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?

hymn 3

  1. p. 292, line 16In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn.
  2. p. 312, line 10My mother's voice in lullaby or hymn,
  3. p. 314, line 9Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott,

hymns 8

  1. p. 186, line 20I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
  2. p. 241, line 14And sullen hymns of defeat?
  3. p. 269, line 22His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
  4. p. 311, line 25The solemn hymns and masses rousing adoration,
  5. p. 314, line 3The sacred imperial hymns of China,
  6. p. 358, line 19Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy!
  7. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.