Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  2. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  3. p. 13, line 30Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
  4. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  5. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
  6. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  7. p. 17, line 21Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
  8. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
  9. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  10. p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
  11. p. 24, line 1As I have walk'd in Alabama my morning walk,
  12. p. 24, line 2I have seen where the she-bird the mocking-bird sat on her nest in the briers hatching her brood.
  13. p. 24, line 3I have seen the he-bird also,
  14. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  15. 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.
  16. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  17. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
  18. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  19. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
  20. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
  21. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  22. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  23. p. 32, line 13I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
  24. p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
  25. p. 34, line 19For me those that have been boys and that love women,
  26. p. 34, line 22For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  27. p. 36, line 10You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
  28. p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  29. p. 43, line 9Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
  30. p. 43, line 13Vivas to those who have fail'd!
  31. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  32. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
  33. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  34. p. 45, line 22We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  35. p. 45, line 24Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
  36. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  37. p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
  38. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  39. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  40. p. 52, line 8I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  41. p. 52, line 28They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
  42. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  43. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  44. p. 54, line 8And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  45. p. 60, line 16They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
  46. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  47. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  48. p. 64, line 18Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!
  49. p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
  50. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  51. p. 66, line 9And any thing I have I bestow.
  52. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  53. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  54. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
  55. p. 71, line 9Births have brought us richness and variety,
  56. p. 71, line 16(What have I to do with lamentation?)
  57. p. 71, line 26Immense have been the preparations for me,
  58. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  59. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  60. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  61. p. 73, line 19I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,
  62. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  63. p. 74, line 14Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
  64. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,
  65. p. 76, line 5They and all would resume what I have told them.
  66. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  67. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  68. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  69. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  70. p. 78, line 6Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
  71. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  72. p. 80, line 30From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter'd too long as it is,)
  73. p. 81, line 10From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave,
  74. p. 83, line 11I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
  75. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  76. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  77. p. 86, line 13Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
  78. p. 86, line 14Have you ever loved the body of a man?
  79. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  80. p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
  81. p. 92, line 1To have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!
  82. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  83. p. 92, line 14I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
  84. p. 92, line 17Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe,
  85. p. 93, line 3We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
  86. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  87. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
  88. p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
  89. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  90. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  91. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  92. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  93. p. 98, line 21Already you see I have escaped from you.
  94. p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
  95. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  96. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  97. p. 103, line 15Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
  98. p. 103, line 20Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
  99. p. 105, line 3Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
  100. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  101. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
  102. p. 106, line 11I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
  103. p. 107, line 3(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)
  104. p. 108, line 19Nor discovery have I made,
  105. p. 110, line 17Yet out of that I have written these songs.)
  106. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,
  107. p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)
  108. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
  109. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  110. p. 120, line 12I think I have blown with you you winds;
  111. p. 120, line 13You waters I have finger'd every shore with you,
  112. p. 120, line 14I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
  113. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  114. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  115. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.
  116. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  117. p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
  118. p. 128, line 20Have the past struggles succeeded?
  119. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  120. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  121. p. 133, line 5What I promis'd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
  122. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  123. p. 134, line 7You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
  124. 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,
  125. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  126. p. 142, line 17It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
  127. p. 142, line 18I will have thousands of globes and all time.
  128. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,
  129. 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,
  130. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  131. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
  132. p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
  133. p. 155, line 6I have what I have.)
  134. p. 165, line 1In other scenes than these have I observ'd thee flag,
  135. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  136. p. 165, line 10Many a good man have I seen go under.
  137. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
  138. p. 166, line 25And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth,)
  139. p. 166, line 29We who have grandly fill'd our time;
  140. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  141. p. 170, line 8Why what have you thought of yourself?
  142. p. 171, line 3I bring what you much need yet always have,
  143. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
  144. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
  145. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  146. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  147. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  148. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  149. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  150. p. 180, line 17It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
  151. p. 183, line 7Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
  152. p. 183, line 17Have the elder races halted?
  153. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
  154. p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
  155. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  156. p. 186, line 17O I have been dilatory and dumb,
  157. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  158. p. 186, line 19I should have blabb'd nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.
  159. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  160. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  161. p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,
  162. p. 187, line 7Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time,
  163. p. 187, line 8What you have done returns already in mockeries,
  164. p. 189, line 20Let me have my own way,
  165. p. 190, line 13I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
  166. p. 190, line 19I perceive I have no time to lose.
  167. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
  168. p. 192, line 19I have the idea of all, and am all and believe in all,
  169. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  170. p. 192, line 26I assert that all past days were what they must have been,
  171. p. 192, line 27And that they could no-how have been better than they were,
  172. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  173. p. 198, line 15The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,
  174. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  175. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  176. p. 201, line 10O if I am to have so much, let me have more!
  177. p. 201, line 14Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you sea-waves?
  178. p. 202, line 26Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
  179. 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,
  180. p. 202, line 30With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
  181. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  182. p. 203, line 3Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
  183. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,
  184. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,
  185. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  186. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!
  187. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  188. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  189. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  190. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  191. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  192. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
  193. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  194. 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,
  195. p. 229, line 26Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,
  196. p. 230, line 9I have witness'd the true lightning, I have witness'd my cities electric,
  197. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  198. p. 231, line 9Behold me—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!
  199. p. 231, line 10I have rejected nothing you offer'd me—whom you adopted I have adopted,
  200. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  201. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
  202. p. 232, line 4Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we must remain,
  203. p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,
  204. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,
  205. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  206. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  207. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  208. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  209. p. 246, line 32What I have I also give you.
  210. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  211. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  212. p. 251, line 20I am more resolute because all have denied me than I could ever have been had all accepted me,
  213. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  214. p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
  215. p. 252, line 13(I have been born of the same as the war was born,
  216. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  217. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
  218. p. 260, line 23Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
  219. p. 264, line 25Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
  220. p. 265, line 21Ages, precedents, have long been accumulating undirected materials,
  221. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  222. p. 265, line 24A work remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
  223. p. 266, line 2Does not repel them or the past or what they have produced under their forms,
  224. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  225. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  226. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  227. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
  228. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  229. 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?
  230. p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?
  231. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  232. p. 271, line 8Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
  233. p. 271, line 12Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
  234. p. 271, line 13Have you too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality?
  235. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
  236. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
  237. p. 273, line 3Give me the pay I have served for,
  238. p. 273, line 5I have loved the earth, sun, animals, I have despised riches,
  239. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  240. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  241. p. 273, line 14This arm, this hand, this voice, have nourish'd, rais'd, restored,
  242. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  243. p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
  244. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  245. p. 274, line 10I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
  246. p. 275, line 1I am for those that have never been master'd,
  247. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  248. p. 275, line 9This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.
  249. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  250. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  251. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
  252. 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;
  253. p. 285, line 25Where have you disposed of their carcasses?
  254. p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
  255. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
  256. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  257. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  258. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  259. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  260. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  261. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  262. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  263. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  264. p. 306, line 16Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,
  265. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  266. p. 310, line 25Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?
  267. p. 315, line 4Come, for I have found the clew I sought so long,
  268. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  269. p. 322, line 21Then have thy bent unleash'd.
  270. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  271. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  272. p. 323, line 4Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
  273. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
  274. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  275. p. 324, line 3All my emprises have been fill'd with Thee,
  276. p. 329, line 22O my mother was loth to have her go away,
  277. p. 330, line 27The night and sleep have liken'd them and restored them.
  278. p. 332, line 14I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you,
  279. p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
  280. p. 333, line 4Have you dreaded these earth-beetles?
  281. p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
  282. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  283. p. 336, line 5The preparations have every one been justified,
  284. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
  285. p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
  286. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  287. p. 337, line 3For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
  288. p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
  289. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  290. p. 337, line 21The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
  291. p. 339, line 9Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life;
  292. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  293. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
  294. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  295. 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,
  296. p. 347, line 15Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
  297. p. 352, line 7Thy lover me, for always I have loved thee,
  298. p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
  299. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  300. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
  301. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
  302. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
  303. p. 364, line 2Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
  304. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  305. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  306. p. 368, line 29They have remember'd thee.
  307. p. 370, line 8O soul, we have positively appear'd—that is enough.
  308. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  309. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  310. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  311. p. 375, line 28I too have felt the resistless call of myself.
  312. p. 375, line 31As I have lived, as I have look'd through my windows my eyes,
  313. p. 376, line 2As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago, whatever streets I have roam'd,
  314. p. 376, line 4Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.
  315. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,
  316. p. 379, line 5(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)
  317. p. 380, line 19I have press'd through in my own right,
  318. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  319. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
  320. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
  321. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  322. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)
  323. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  324. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  325. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  326. p. 401, line 3Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
  327. p. 407, line 5[…] long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the […]
  328. p. 407, line 16[…] here collated, it is worth printing (certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of […]
  329. p. 407, line 26[…] wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain […]
  330. p. 408, line 12[…] and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow […]
  331. p. 411, line 40[…] best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would […]
  332. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  333. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,
  334. p. 413, line 38[…] long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced […]
  335. p. 413, line 41[…] limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to […]
  336. p. 418, line 23For I too have forgotten,
  337. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,
  338. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
  339. p. 422, line 9Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;
  340. p. 422, line 12Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended into one;
  341. p. 425, line 28[…] I may assume to say so. That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have […]
  342. p. 425, line 29[…] gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still […]
  343. p. 426, line 2[…] May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it I have been the object of two or three pretty serious special […]
  344. p. 426, line 4[…] all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd. I bid […]
  345. p. 426, line 12[…] any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it […]
  346. p. 426, line 17[…] to be, with its theory. (I think I have at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain […]
  347. p. 426, line 22[…] fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up […]
  348. p. 427, line 3[…] this is in brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United […]
  349. p. 427, line 17[…] I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly taken up that challenge and made an attempt at […]
  350. p. 427, line 42[…] which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use […]
  351. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far than the material or inventive or war-produced […]
  352. p. 428, line 19My Book and I—what a period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America […]
  353. p. 428, line 21[…] Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we have cull'd enough of that period in its own spirit to […]
  354. p. 429, line 8[…] bases of them, and without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before […]
  355. p. 429, line 35[…] very well that my "Leaves" could not possibly have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any other era […]
  356. p. 429, line 45[…] transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could do. But it seem'd to me, as […]
  357. p. 430, line 17[…] days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests of […]
  358. p. 431, line 21[…] our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and […]
  359. p. 431, line 26[…] so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially to […]
  360. p. 431, line 31[…] conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed […]
  361. p. 431, line 35[…] the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these the old poems apply […]
  362. p. 431, line 41I have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for […]
  363. p. 432, line 2[…] beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated […]
  364. p. 432, line 11[…] wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the poems of […]
  365. p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity of […]
  366. p. 432, line 29[…] stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine […]
  367. p. 433, line 11[…] sand, with the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd since why I was not overwhelm'd by those mighty […]
  368. p. 433, line 36[…] any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that to the true and full […]
  369. p. 433, line 39These, however, and much more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have […]
  370. p. 433, line 40[…] on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and […]
  371. p. 434, line 21[…] consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as […]
  372. p. 434, line 22[…] part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek less to state or display any […]
  373. p. 434, line 43[…] possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to […]
  374. p. 435, line 10[…] European feudalism) it has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning to end […]
  375. p. 436, line 4[…] in spirit the poems of the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and […]
  376. p. 436, line 7[…] of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put the complete Union of the States in […]
  377. p. 436, line 19[…] the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. Difficult as it […]
  378. p. 437, line 32[…] for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so […]