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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ice 15

  1. p. 27, line 3Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
  2. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  3. p. 117, line 5I see the regions of snow and ice,
  4. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
  5. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
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  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,
  2. p. 155, line 27Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
  3. 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,
  4. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  5. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  6. p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,
  7. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,
  8. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
  9. p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,

icebergs 2

  1. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
  2. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.

ice-boats 1

  1. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,

Iceland 1

  1. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,

Icelander 1

  1. p. 118, line 21You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!

ice-saw 1

  1. 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,

ice-wind 1

  1. p. 328, line 14The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,

icicled 1

  1. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,

icy 3

  1. p. 227, line 4And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
  2. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  3. p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,

I'd 15

  1. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  2. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  3. p. 347, line 1I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
  4. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
  5. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
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  1. p. 347, line 12Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
  2. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
  3. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
  4. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  5. p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
  6. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  7. p. 389, line 13These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
  8. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  9. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,

Idaho 1

  1. p. 168, line 13From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah,

idea 23

  1. p. 11, line 13Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
  2. p. 11, line 22Around the idea of thee the war revolving,
  3. p. 11, line 28Around the idea of thee.
  4. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  5. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
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  1. p. 192, line 19I have the idea of all, and am all and believe in all,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  4. p. 223, line 7The idea of all, of the Western world one and inseparable,
  5. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  8. p. 270, line 9For the great Idea,
  9. p. 270, line 14Warlike flag of the great Idea.
  10. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  11. p. 276, line 16Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!)
  12. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  13. p. 296, line 20Here the idea, all in this mystic handful wrapt;)
  14. p. 347, line 28Through thy idea, lo, the immortal reality!
  15. p. 347, line 29Through thy reality, lo, the immortal idea!
  16. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
  17. p. 433, line 22[…] I was repaid in Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there […]

ideal 13

  1. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  2. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  3. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  4. p. 169, line 9I see the genius of the modern, child of the real and ideal,
  5. p. 181, line 19For it the real to the ideal tends.
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  1. p. 182, line 19To the ideal tendest.
  2. p. 213, line 16Thou, thou, the Ideal Man,
  3. p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,
  4. p. 322, line 8What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
  5. p. 369, line 2(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,
  6. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  7. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,
  8. p. 435, line 5[…] and on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent with the operative political […]

ideality 1

  1. p. 353, line 2Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

ideals 3

  1. p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
  2. p. 356, line 13Was fill'd with aspirations high, unform'd ideals,
  3. p. 435, line 9[…] as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the centuries of European feudalism) it has not yet […]

ideas 2

  1. p. 213, line 26All great ideas, the races' aspirations,
  2. p. 427, line 29One main contrast of the ideas behind every page of my verses, compared with establish'd poems […]

identical 1

  1. p. 433, line 33[…] straying however far a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations […]

identified 1

  1. p. 427, line 1[…] of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far more candid and […]

identify 3

  1. p. 253, line 18Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
  2. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  3. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?

identities 7

  1. p. 13, line 19The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
  2. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  3. p. 207, line 19All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
  4. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  5. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)
  6. p. 427, line 9[…] any decided coloring from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted […]
  7. p. 427, line 26[…] But the broadest average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and especially in each […]

identity 25

  1. p. 19, line 7Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
  2. p. 31, line 2Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
  3. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  4. p. 101, line 4That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
  5. p. 101, line 14I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave,
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  1. p. 131, line 22I too had receiv'd identity by my body,
  2. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  3. p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
  4. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  5. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
  6. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  7. p. 215, line 8That you are here—that life exists and identity,
  8. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  9. p. 227, line 9The Continent, devoting the whole identity without reserving an atom,
  10. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  11. p. 337, line 24And all preparation is for it—and identity is for it—and life and materials are altogether for it!
  12. p. 346, line 21Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
  13. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  14. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,
  15. p. 381, line 1I announce that the identity of these States is a single identity only,
  16. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
  17. p. 396, line 2No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
  18. p. 427, line 7[…] of all, it gives one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with […]

identity's 1

  1. p. 374, line 3Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,

idiom 2

  1. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,

idioms 1

  1. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?

idiot 3

  1. p. 330, line 24The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wrong'd,
  2. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
  3. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,

idiots 2

  1. p. 118, line 8The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,
  2. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,

idle 5

  1. p. 32, line 8Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
  2. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  3. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  4. p. 377, line 1With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
  5. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,

idlers 1

  1. p. 162, line 12Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,

idly 5

  1. p. 68, line 23A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  2. p. 89, line 23The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
  3. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
  4. p. 284, line 26As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor,
  5. p. 438, line 1As idly drifting down the ebb,

idol 1

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

idols 2

  1. p. 69, line 24Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
  2. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,

idyls 1

  1. p. 414, line 27The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene,

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ignorance 2

  1. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
  2. p. 429, line 20[…] great their genius. Think of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and the […]

ignorant 4

  1. p. 85, line 10Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
  2. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
  3. p. 336, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  4. p. 340, line 3Crafty, despised, a drudge, ignorant,

ignore 3

  1. p. 22, line 4Omnes! omnes! let others ignore what they may,
  2. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,

ignores 1

  1. p. 273, line 26I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,

Iliad 3

  1. p. 415, line 1The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas,
  2. p. 433, line 8[…] the latter mostly in an old wood. The Iliad (Buckley's prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula […]
  3. p. 435, line 38[…] the same. The times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but […]

ill 13

  1. p. 170, line 4If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
  2. p. 218, line 5Death, many deaths I'll sing.
  3. p. 223, line 21I'll weave the chord and twine in,
  4. p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
  5. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
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  1. p. 223, line 26I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
  2. p. 258, line 7I'll perfume the grave of him I love.
  3. p. 391, line 22Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
  4. p. 394, line 2I'll mind the lesson, solitary bird—let me too welcome chilling drifts,
  5. p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
  6. p. 418, line 22How ill to e'er forget thee!

ill-assorted 1

  1. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,

ill-doing 1

  1. p. 32, line 3The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,

illimitable 1

  1. p. 376, line 14Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,

Illinois 7

  1. p. 20, line 6Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
  2. p. 221, line 21Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
  3. p. 227, line 8And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
  4. p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,
  5. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  6. p. 368, line 14Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
  7. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,

Illinoisian's 1

  1. p. 146, line 16Ohioan's, Illinoisian's, Wisconsinese', Kanadian's, Iowan's, Kansian's, Missourian's, Oregonese' joys!

illiterate 3

  1. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
  2. p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  3. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,

illness 1

  1. p. 407, line 27[…] I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now […]

ill-supprest 1

  1. p. 100, line 16Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs,

illuminated 1

  1. p. 353, line 8The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

illuminating 1

  1. p. 404, line 1The touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,

illumin'd 3 today: illumined

  1. p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!
  2. p. 162, line 2Lifted, illumin'd, bathed in peace—elate, secure in peace.
  3. p. 246, line 26The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin'd,

illumined see illumin'd

illusion 3

  1. p. 103, line 20Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
  2. p. 284, line 18It was an illusion, the son you love was not really dead,
  3. p. 362, line 15Open but still a secret, the real of the real, an illusion,

illustrate 3

  1. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
  2. p. 364, line 25They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
  3. p. 430, line 9[…] the born child of the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that […]

illustrated 4

  1. p. 153, line 4Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs,
  2. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  3. p. 407, line 10[…] as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid […]
  4. p. 432, line 4[…] Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through the temper and […]

illustrates 2

  1. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,

illustration 2

  1. p. 430, line 10[…] genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative […]
  2. p. 437, line 41[…] perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help to extract the […]

illustrious 12

  1. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  2. p. 79, line 20From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
  3. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  4. 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,)
  5. p. 352, line 6Hear me illustrious!
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  1. p. 374, line 22Illustrious every one!
  2. p. 374, line 23Illustrious what we name space, sphere of unnumber'd spirits,
  3. p. 374, line 24Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings, even the tiniest insect,
  4. p. 374, line 25Illustrious the attribute of speech, the senses, the body,
  5. p. 374, line 26Illustrious the passing light—illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky,
  6. p. 374, line 27Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch, to the last.

illustriousness 1

  1. p. 428, line 2[…] them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things […]

i'm 1

  1. p. 422, line 3I'm going away, I know not where,

image 2

  1. p. 14, line 8An image, an eidólon.
  2. p. 67, line 10With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image,

images 1

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

imaginary 1

  1. p. 122, line 22From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,

imaginative 5

  1. p. 427, line 43[…] years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to […]
  2. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions […]
  3. p. 430, line 11[…] ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature. Not to carry out, in the approved style, some […]
  4. p. 430, line 39[…] to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of the modern time, and dominate all that precedes […]
  5. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises—First, what […]

imaging 1

  1. p. 392, line 3Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions,

imbonded 1

  1. p. 356, line 24Thy song expands my numb'd imbonded spirit, thou freest, launchest me,

imbued 3

  1. p. 16, line 8Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
  2. p. 177, line 2They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
  3. p. 281, line 28Beholdest moving in every direction imbued as with life the revolving hay-rakes,

imbuing 1

  1. p. 47, line 19Materialism first and last imbuing.

immanent 1

  1. p. 419, line 2Allah is all, all, all—is immanent in every life and object,

immaterial 1

  1. p. 58, line 24I help myself to material and immaterial,

immeasurable 1

  1. 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,

immeasurably 2

  1. p. 190, line 15O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
  2. p. 429, line 45[…] reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could do. But it […]

immediate 2

  1. p. 322, line 34Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
  2. p. 426, line 43[…] tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality […]

immediately 3

  1. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  2. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,
  3. p. 361, line 23(This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be realized,

immense 12

  1. p. 9, line 6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
  2. p. 49, line 30The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  3. p. 71, line 26Immense have been the preparations for me,
  4. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  5. p. 187, line 24These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they,
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  1. p. 224, line 18Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,
  2. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
  3. p. 246, line 8Immense and silent moon.
  4. p. 246, line 30O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
  5. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
  6. p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,

immensely 1

  1. p. 158, line 12Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,

immensity 1

  1. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.

immerged 1

  1. p. 382, line 14I feel immerged from head to foot,

immerse 1

  1. p. 134, line 23Him they immerse and he immerses them.

immerses 1

  1. p. 134, line 23Him they immerse and he immerses them.

immigrant 1

  1. p. 330, line 9The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months and years,

immigrants 8

  1. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
  2. p. 40, line 7The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee,
  3. p. 85, line 5Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  4. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
  5. p. 170, line 26Sailor-men, merchant-men, coasters, immigrants,
  6. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,
  7. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  8. p. 361, line 9Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,

immobile 1

  1. p. 353, line 10The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,

immodest 1

  1. p. 48, line 8No more modest than immodest.

immodestly 1

  1. p. 52, line 22Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,

immolate 1

  1. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.

immortal 37

  1. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  2. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
  3. p. 17, line 13Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
  4. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  5. p. 34, line 17(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)
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  1. p. 86, line 7Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  2. p. 92, line 26Undestroy'd, wandering immortal,
  3. p. 97, line 6I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States,
  4. p. 160, line 1In liberty's name welcome immortal! clasp hands,
  5. p. 170, line 15Do you give in that you are any less immortal?)
  6. p. 205, line 24But O the ship, the immortal ship! O ship aboard the ship!
  7. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  8. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  9. p. 206, line 24Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
  10. p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,
  11. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  12. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,
  13. p. 253, line 8As your ranks, your immortal ranks, return, return from the battles,
  14. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  15. p. 275, line 11I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
  16. p. 279, line 17Ask'd room those flush'd immortal ranks, the first forth-stepping armies?
  17. p. 285, line 6That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built!
  18. p. 305, line 4Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every one is immortal;
  19. p. 307, line 7Shall beam immortal.
  20. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
  21. p. 316, line 14Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams!
  22. p. 338, line 25(Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth;
  23. p. 347, line 28Through thy idea, lo, the immortal reality!
  24. p. 347, line 29Through thy reality, lo, the immortal idea!
  25. p. 349, line 26(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)
  26. p. 351, line 8Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)
  27. p. 357, line 13O how the immortal phantoms crowd around me!
  28. p. 365, line 21Lo, Freedom's features fresh undimm'd look forth—the same immortal face looks forth;
  29. p. 372, line 21Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
  30. p. 377, line 19In blowing airs from the fields back again give me my darlings, give my immortal heroes,
  31. p. 420, line 18But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.

immortality 12

  1. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  2. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  3. p. 123, line 24Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
  4. p. 137, line 4The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
  5. p. 178, line 25For none more than you is immortality.
7 more lines
  1. 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;
  2. p. 182, line 24All, all for immortality,
  3. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  4. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  5. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  6. p. 337, line 22I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  7. p. 345, line 1Now I absorb immortality and peace,

immovable 1

  1. p. 268, line 10And your port immovable where you stand,

impalpable 12

  1. p. 22, line 26For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
  2. p. 32, line 9Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  3. p. 42, line 27The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
  4. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  5. p. 129, line 15The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,
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  1. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  2. p. 202, line 20As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
  3. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  4. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  5. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  6. p. 398, line 11For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life,
  7. p. 399, line 4Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,

impart 1

  1. 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,

imparted 1

  1. 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,

impartiality 3

  1. p. 179, line 12Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 271, line 13Have you too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality?

impartially 1

  1. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,

impassive 15

  1. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  2. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
  3. p. 88, line 16Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
  4. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  5. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 184, line 15Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
  3. p. 193, line 10Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,
  4. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
  5. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  6. p. 299, line 5Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell's tides continually run,
  7. p. 318, line 20Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
  8. p. 319, line 4The whole earth, this cold, impassive, voiceless earth, shall be completely justified,
  9. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)
  10. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;

impatience 1

  1. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,

impatient 4

  1. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,
  2. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  3. p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
  4. p. 346, line 8Tenderly—be not impatient,

impeach'd 1 today: impeached

  1. p. 154, line 23Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown'd ladies, impeach'd ministers, rejected kings,

impeached see impeach'd

impedimentas 1

  1. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,

impell'd 3 today: impelled

  1. p. 12, line 31From science and the modern still impell'd,
  2. p. 316, line 1(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
  3. p. 316, line 2So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)

impelled see impell'd

impenetrable 2

  1. p. 338, line 26On the frontiers to eyes impenetrable,
  2. p. 349, line 12How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future?

imperative 1

  1. p. 436, line 21[…] will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women […]

imperatively 1

  1. p. 430, line 27[…] America's sake, if for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of […]

imperfect 1

  1. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,

imperfection 3

  1. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  2. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  3. p. 376, line 9For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,

imperfection's 1

  1. p. 182, line 4From imperfection's murkiest cloud,

imperial 2

  1. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  2. p. 314, line 3The sacred imperial hymns of China,

imperious 3

  1. p. 10, line 7With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
  2. p. 10, line 26Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
  3. p. 344, line 3O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;

imperiously 1

  1. p. 431, line 23[…] What is there in those works that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]

imperturbe 1

  1. p. 16, line 6ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,

impervious 1

  1. p. 93, line 16We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,

impetus-word 1

  1. p. 434, line 25[…] thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a more […]

impious 1

  1. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;

implements 3

  1. p. 169, line 2(These but the means, the implements, the standing-ground,)
  2. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,
  3. p. 281, line 27The human-divine inventions, the labor-saving implements;

implicit 1

  1. p. 437, line 9[…] directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process […]

implied 1

  1. p. 438, line 3[…] their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown and […]

imponderable 1

  1. p. 337, line 18The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids perfect;

importance 1

  1. p. 431, line 40[…] the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]

important 7

  1. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
  2. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  3. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  4. p. 429, line 7[…] entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without which they could have had […]
  5. p. 430, line 4[…] quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the time had come to […]
  6. p. 430, line 29[…] theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn the argument over and repeat it […]
  7. p. 431, line 28[…] Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being the loftiest of the […]

imported 1

  1. p. 271, line 18Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?

importers 1

  1. p. 272, line 9Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make but the soil of literature,

impossible 2

  1. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  2. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.

impotence 1

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

impotent 2

  1. p. 66, line 5You there, impotent, loose in the knees,
  2. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,

impregnable 3

  1. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  2. p. 267, line 12The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
  3. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,

impress 1

  1. p. 285, line 4Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me,

impress'd 2 today: impressed

  1. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
  2. 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?

impressed see impress'd

impression 1

  1. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,

imprinting 1

  1. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,

imprints 1

  1. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,

imprisonment 1

  1. p. 288, line 11In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment—for they too are great.

impromptu 2

  1. p. 239, line 6'Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital,
  2. p. 382, line 16Enough O deed impromptu and secret,

improve 1

  1. p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?

improvements 3

  1. p. 26, line 25Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
  2. p. 180, line 5Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
  3. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,

improving 1

  1. p. 407, line 25However that may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years […]

impulse 1

  1. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!

impulses 2

  1. p. 190, line 5What others give as duties I give as living impulses,
  2. p. 268, line 23(Bravas to all impulses sending sane children to the next age!

impure 1

  1. p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,

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inaccessible 1

  1. p. 338, line 9All waits undream'd of in that region, that inaccessible land.

inalienable 1

  1. p. 374, line 7Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads,

inanimate 3

  1. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  2. p. 178, line 6From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things,
  3. p. 207, line 15All distances of time, all inanimate forms,

inarm'd 1 today: inarmed

  1. p. 332, line 2The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarm'd by friend,

inarmed see inarm'd

inaudible 1

  1. p. 176, line 15The workmanship of souls is by those inaudible words of the earth,

inaugurate 3

  1. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  2. p. 275, line 5Who inaugurate one to inaugurate all.

inbound 1

  1. p. 385, line 12The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,

incalculable 7

  1. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,
  2. p. 219, line 19Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
  3. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
  4. p. 349, line 7Yet in beginning only, incalculable masses of composite precious materials,
  5. p. 414, line 22(Of many debts incalculable,
  6. p. 429, line 16[…] with their lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are […]
  7. p. 431, line 37[…] irrespective of date; and that they are of incalculable value as pictures of the past. I willingly make those […]

incarnate 1

  1. p. 231, line 9Behold me—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!

incarnated 2

  1. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  2. p. 231, line 9Behold me—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!

incarnating 1

  1. p. 266, line 20Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land,

incased 1

  1. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,

incens'd 1 today: incensed

  1. p. 219, line 22Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.

incensed see incens'd

inception 1

  1. p. 30, line 20There was never any more inception than there is now,

incessant 9

  1. p. 28, line 3A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching,
  2. p. 208, line 23Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
  3. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  4. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,
  5. p. 318, line 17With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?
4 more lines
  1. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  2. p. 364, line 3(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the old, the incessant war?)
  3. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  4. p. 418, line 19Thou that in all, and over all, and through and under all, incessant!

incessantly 7

  1. p. 200, line 17With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning,
  2. p. 200, line 25The undertone, the savage old mother incessantly crying,
  3. p. 244, line 21These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
  4. p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
  5. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  6. p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
  7. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.

inch 7

  1. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  2. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  3. p. 301, line 18Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
  4. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  5. p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,
  6. p. 435, line 41Without yielding an inch the working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages […]

inches 2

  1. p. 310, line 2It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  2. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,

incidents 1

  1. p. 430, line 13[…] or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which has been done overwhelmingly and […]

incisions 1

  1. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,

inclination 1

  1. p. 158, line 19Or rather to her long-nurs'd inclination,

inclined 1

  1. p. 103, line 10In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,

inclining 1

  1. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,

include 3

  1. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  2. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  3. p. 192, line 13We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and more,

included 1

  1. p. 430, line 38[…] henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action […]

includes 4

  1. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;
  2. p. 303, line 13WHO includes diversity and is Nature,
  3. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,

including 5

  1. p. 21, line 16Resolute warlike One including and over all,
  2. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,
  3. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,

inclusive 2

  1. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  2. p. 435, line 38[…] times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements of […]

incognita 1

  1. p. 320, line 2Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,

income 1

  1. 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,

incoming 1

  1. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,

incomparable 3

  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. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  3. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,

incomplete 1

  1. p. 428, line 5[…] other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]

incomprehensible 2

  1. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,

inconsistent 1

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

incorporate 2

  1. p. 54, line 6I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
  2. 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;

increase 5

  1. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  2. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  3. p. 141, line 11The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,
  4. p. 143, line 14O the joy of increase, growth, recuperation,
  5. p. 330, line 6The droves and crops increase, the barns are well-fill'd.

increasing 1

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

incredible 3

  1. p. 100, line 27Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
  2. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
  3. p. 375, line 13To be this incredible God I am!

inculcation 1

  1. p. 432, line 4[…] pages are arrived at through the temper and inculcation of the old works as much as through anything else […]

indecent 4

  1. p. 48, line 26Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd.
  2. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  3. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,

indeed 47

  1. p. 51, line 19Ah this indeed is music—this suits me.
  2. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  3. p. 96, line 25Indeed O death, I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as you mean,
  4. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  5. p. 107, line 3(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)
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  1. p. 148, line 5To be indeed a God!
  2. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  3. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  4. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  5. p. 200, line 29Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
  6. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  7. p. 205, line 19O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
  8. p. 210, line 5Why this is indeed a show—it has called the dead out of the earth!
  9. 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,
  10. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  11. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  12. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  13. p. 241, line 13Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
  14. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  15. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  16. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,
  17. p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
  18. p. 321, line 16Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
  19. p. 322, line 17Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?
  20. p. 322, line 18O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?
  21. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,
  22. p. 337, line 8Then indeed suspicion of death.
  23. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  24. p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
  25. p. 395, line 7(Sometimes, indeed, through half the day,)
  26. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  27. p. 404, line 8The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.
  28. p. 407, line 11[…] and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my sort of […]
  29. p. 408, line 31[…] which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to […]
  30. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)
  31. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,
  32. p. 421, line 16(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)
  33. p. 422, line 12Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended into one;
  34. p. 428, line 21[…] from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if we have cull'd enough of that […]
  35. p. 429, line 11[…] the result of such presupposition. I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book without first […]
  36. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time […]
  37. p. 431, line 3[…] voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle […]
  38. p. 431, line 26[…] who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs essentially […]
  39. p. 431, line 41I have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those […]
  40. p. 433, line 34[…] and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether […]
  41. p. 435, line 44[…] poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those […]
  42. p. 438, line 8[…] Leaves of Grass" indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping […]

indefinite 1

  1. p. 426, line 38[…] previous life, or hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and […]

independence 2

  1. p. 149, line 25The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves,
  2. 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?

indescribable 4

  1. p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
  2. p. 367, line 16Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,)
  3. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,
  4. p. 431, line 42[…] eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must […]

index 2

  1. p. 48, line 13Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.
  2. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,

India 11

  1. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  2. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
  3. p. 191, line 23With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,
  4. p. 316, line 3Passage O soul to India!
  5. p. 316, line 17Passage to India!
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  1. p. 316, line 28Passage to India!
  2. p. 317, line 21Passage to India!
  3. p. 319, line 18Passage to India!
  4. p. 322, line 16Passage to more than India!
  5. p. 322, line 25Passage to more than India!
  6. p. 388, line 2The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;

Indian 3

  1. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
  2. p. 366, line 22The Indian ambuscade, the craft, the fatal environment,
  3. p. 389, line 6Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman

Indiana 5

  1. p. 20, line 6Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
  2. p. 221, line 21Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
  3. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  4. p. 230, line 18I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio's waters and of Indiana,
  5. p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,

Indiana's 1

  1. p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,

India's 1

  1. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,

indicate 3

  1. p. 71, line 6The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?
  2. p. 134, line 1Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are,
  3. p. 337, line 14The past and the present indicate that it is good.

indicated 1

  1. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!

indicates 8

  1. p. 71, line 6The clock indicates the moment—but what does eternity indicate?
  2. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  3. p. 137, line 1Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
  4. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  5. p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  6. p. 331, line 6The myth of heaven indicates the soul,
  7. p. 337, line 13The whole universe indicates that it is good,

indicating 4

  1. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  2. p. 100, line 11Indicating to each one what he shall have, giving something to each;
  3. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
  4. p. 434, line 15[…] I set out with the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I […]

indication 1

  1. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.

indications 2

  1. p. 136, line 22The indications and tally of time,
  2. p. 168, line 15The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all,

indicative 2

  1. p. 18, line 5I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
  2. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?

indifference 2

  1. p. 32, line 2The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
  2. p. 287, line 10Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,

indifferent 11

  1. p. 46, line 31Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
  2. p. 96, line 23Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
  3. p. 101, line 15But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
  4. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  5. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
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  1. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  2. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
  3. p. 298, line 9We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
  4. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  5. p. 362, line 1Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?

indifferently 4

  1. p. 25, line 17Indifferently before death and after death.
  2. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  3. p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
  4. p. 362, line 21Indifferently, 'mid public, private haunts, in solitude,

indirect 5

  1. p. 290, line 3But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime.
  2. p. 290, line 4The indirect is just as much as the direct,
  3. p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
  4. p. 433, line 41[…] naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been […]
  5. p. 437, line 30[…] rank or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads of all the poetry of the past—are in […]

indirection 3

  1. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  2. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
  3. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,

indirections 4

  1. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  2. p. 111, line 12I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
  3. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  4. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.

indirectly 2

  1. p. 432, line 16[…] and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  2. p. 437, line 9[…] whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom […]

indiscriminately 1

  1. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,

indispensable 7

  1. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
  2. p. 61, line 3Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 428, line 27[…] Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them […]
  5. p. 430, line 42[…] or a new verteber of the best song indispensable […]
  6. p. 431, line 3[…] our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the […]
  7. p. 435, line 17[…] nearly all my verse. I think this pride indispensable to an American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience […]

indissoluble 4

  1. p. 19, line 8The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
  2. p. 99, line 1COME, I will make the continent indissoluble,
  3. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  4. p. 381, line 2I announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble,

individual 2

  1. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
  2. p. 381, line 7I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm'd.

individualities 1

  1. p. 435, line 35[…] whole, are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything […]

individuality 4

  1. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
  2. p. 431, line 7[…] nations, social groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or New, are from them—and though if […]
  3. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale, the […]
  4. p. 435, line 11[…] from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great […]

individuals 10

  1. p. 265, line 2All is for individuals, all is for you,
  2. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  3. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  4. p. 273, line 25Underneath all, individuals,
  5. p. 273, line 26I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,
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  1. p. 273, line 27The American compact is altogether with individuals,
  2. p. 273, line 28The only government is that which makes minute of individuals,
  3. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  4. p. 435, line 25[…] forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular education […]
  5. p. 436, line 32[…] are certain facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all times, there is nothing so rare in modern conventions […]

indivisible 2

  1. p. 163, line 21One common indivisible destiny for All.
  2. p. 291, line 16What is prudence is indivisible,

indolent 2

  1. p. 51, line 25It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
  2. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,

indolent-ripe 1

  1. 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,

indomitable 3

  1. p. 208, line 10Indomitable, untamed as thee.
  2. p. 270, line 8(Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty.)
  3. p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,

indoor 3

  1. p. 121, line 3Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
  2. p. 347, line 16Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor library;
  3. p. 433, line 3[…] advantage for me than in any library or indoor room—it makes such difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian […]

indoors 4

  1. p. 44, line 16I wear my hat as I please indoors or out.
  2. p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
  3. p. 220, line 11Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
  4. p. 393, line 22Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms,

indorsement 2

  1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  2. p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.

indubitable 1

  1. p. 408, line 17[…] shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too […]

inducements 1

  1. p. 125, line 14Allons! the inducements shall be greater,

indulgence 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,

indulgent 1

  1. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,

Indus 2

  1. p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,
  2. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,

industry 2

  1. p. 118, line 14I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,
  2. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,

industry's 1

  1. p. 162, line 6And in its stead speed industry's campaigns,

inebriate 1

  1. p. 92, line 8To rise thither with my inebriate soul!

ineffable 3

  1. p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
  2. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  3. p. 324, line 23With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,

ineffaceable 1

  1. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,

ineffectual 1

  1. p. 179, line 22My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,

inertia 1

  1. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,

inevitable 4

  1. p. 119, line 18Each of us inevitable,
  2. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)
  3. p. 398, line 4Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
  4. p. 428, line 18[…] new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]

inevitably 3

  1. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  2. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,

inexhaustible 4

  1. p. 164, line 20The inexhaustible iron in thy mines.
  2. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  3. p. 432, line 30[…] it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests […]
  4. p. 435, line 1[…] of it all. Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever eligible […]

inexorable 2

  1. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  2. p. 339, line 12I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse.

inexperienced 1

  1. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!

inexplicable 1

  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,

inexpressible 1

  1. p. 84, line 17As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,

inextinguishable 1

  1. p. 268, line 11With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,

inextricable 1

  1. p. 26, line 14Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!

infancy 1

  1. p. 142, line 11Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!

infant 2

  1. p. 188, line 11Saw the divine infant where she woke mournfully wailing, amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
  2. p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,

infantry 1

  1. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,

infants 4

  1. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
  2. p. 112, line 14Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
  3. p. 118, line 10The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
  4. p. 353, line 8The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,

infectious 1

  1. p. 286, line 20That the winds are really not infectious,

inferior 1

  1. p. 114, line 13I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,

infernal 1

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

infested 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,

infidel 5

  1. p. 47, line 11The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  2. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  3. p. 287, line 21The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs,
  4. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  5. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.

infidelity 3

  1. p. 264, line 8And death and infidelity at every step.)
  2. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  3. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,

infidels 1

  1. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

infinite 11

  1. p. 13, line 18The infinite oceans where the rivers empty,
  2. p. 13, line 31Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
  3. p. 55, line 3Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
  4. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
  5. p. 259, line 20And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages,
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  1. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,
  2. p. 315, line 29The past—the infinite greatness of the past!
  3. p. 321, line 16Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
  4. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  5. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
  6. p. 421, line 19UNSEEN buds, infinite, hidden well,

infinitely 1

  1. p. 308, line 13Ah more, infinitely more;

infinitesimals 1

  1. p. 277, line 30Infinitesimals out of my life, and many a life,

inflate 1

  1. p. 146, line 6To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,

inflates 1

  1. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,

inflating 3

  1. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  2. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  3. p. 374, line 16Inflating my throat, you divine average,

influence 3

  1. p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
  2. p. 217, line 3As contending against some being or influence.
  3. p. 426, line 11[…] few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say […]

influences 6

  1. p. 72, line 3They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
  2. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with […]
  3. p. 430, line 38[…] basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of the modern time […]
  4. p. 431, line 3[…] and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the sun of […]
  5. p. 432, line 35[…] Island's seashores—there, in the presence of outdoor influences, I went over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and […]
  6. p. 435, line 34[…] only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing the way for grander […]

influx 1

  1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,

infold 1

  1. p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

infolded 1

  1. p. 412, line 21A mystic cipher waits infolded.

infoldest 1

  1. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,

infolds 1

  1. p. 325, line 21The night pervades them and infolds them.

inform 1

  1. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

informers 1

  1. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.

informing 1

  1. p. 80, line 7Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,

infuse 1

  1. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.

infused 1

  1. p. 287, line 4It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,

ing 1

  1. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,

ingenious 1

  1. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,

ingratitude 1

  1. p. 287, line 10Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,

inhabit 2

  1. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  2. p. 161, line 24And here shall ye inhabit powerful Matrons!

inhabitants 3

  1. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  2. p. 118, line 16And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
  3. p. 214, line 4Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,

inhale 3

  1. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  2. p. 123, line 1I inhale great draughts of space,
  3. p. 202, line 20As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,

inhaled 1

  1. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,

inhaling 1

  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,

inherences 1

  1. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,

inherent 4

  1. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  2. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  3. p. 430, line 3[…] mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of […]
  4. p. 430, line 4[…] own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the time had […]

inherit 1

  1. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,

inheritance 1

  1. p. 434, line 44[…] ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all. Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund […]

inherited 1

  1. p. 408, line 4[…] conch to be got at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere […]

inheriting 1

  1. p. 178, line 14The soul's realization and determination still inheriting,

inimitable 4

  1. p. 223, line 2To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)
  2. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  3. p. 394, line 16(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, façades, tell their inimitable tales;
  4. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,

initiated 1

  1. p. 316, line 30I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,

initiates 1

  1. p. 266, line 1Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound, initiates the true use of precedents,

ink 1

  1. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)

inkling 1

  1. p. 149, line 27The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;

inlaid 1

  1. p. 315, line 24The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires;

inland 20

  1. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
  2. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  3. p. 65, line 6Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  4. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  5. p. 107, line 17Those of inland America.
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  1. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  2. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  3. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  4. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
  5. p. 184, line 6Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein'd,
  6. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  7. p. 241, line 5Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,
  8. p. 276, line 19Ample Ohio's, Kanada's bards—bards of California! inland bards—bards of the war!
  9. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  10. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
  11. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,
  12. p. 374, line 6Of mighty inland cities yet unsurvey'd and unsuspected,
  13. p. 376, line 2As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago, whatever streets I have roam'd,
  14. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
  15. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,

inlet 2

  1. p. 139, line 4In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the water rocking silently,
  2. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;

inlets 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;

inloop'd 1 today: inlooped

  1. p. 256, line 21With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black,

inlooped see inloop'd

inmost 1

  1. p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,

inner 3

  1. p. 54, line 17In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  2. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,
  3. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,

innocence 3

  1. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  2. p. 294, line 18Wood-violets, the little delicate pale blossoms called innocence,
  3. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!

innocent 10

  1. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 166, line 20And all you venerable and innocent joys,
  4. p. 281, line 6Man's innocent and strong arenas.
  5. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
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  1. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
  2. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,
  3. p. 320, line 35Back, back to wisdom's birth, to innocent intuitions,
  4. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!
  5. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,

inquiring 1

  1. p. 95, line 2Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,

inquiry 1

  1. p. 341, line 17I approach, hear, behold, the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes, your mute inquiry,

insane 5

  1. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
  2. p. 230, line 16The insane knife toward the Mother of All.
  3. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
  4. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  5. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;

insatiate 1

  1. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,

inscribed 1

  1. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,

inscription 1

  1. p. 241, line 2Comes before me the unknown soldier's grave, comes the inscription rude in Virginia's woods,

inscrutable 2

  1. p. 194, line 21The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable,
  2. p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,

insect 2

  1. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
  2. p. 374, line 24Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings, even the tiniest insect,

insects 3

  1. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  2. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  3. p. 301, line 12Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,

insensate 2

  1. p. 227, line 20Insensate! insensate! (yet I at any rate chant you,) O banner!

inseparable 5

  1. p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
  2. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  3. p. 223, line 7The idea of all, of the Western world one and inseparable,
  4. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  5. p. 429, line 18[…] seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty environage and limited […]

inseparableness 1

  1. p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,

inseparably 3

  1. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  2. p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
  3. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,

insert 1

  1. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,

inside 11

  1. p. 35, line 11The flap of the curtain'd litter, a sick man inside borne to the hospital,
  2. p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
  3. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  4. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  5. p. 87, line 19The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
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  1. p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,
  2. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
  3. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  4. p. 299, line 4Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch'd and choked,
  5. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,

insight 1

  1. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,

insignificant 2

  1. p. 53, line 13The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  2. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.

insists 1

  1. p. 438, line 16[…] No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at […]

insoluble 1

  1. p. 398, line 26By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,

inspiration 1

  1. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,

inspired 1

  1. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,

install'd 1 today: installed

  1. p. 159, line 25She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!

installed see install'd

instant 2

  1. p. 52, line 8I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  2. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!

instantaneous 1

  1. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;

instantly 1

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

instead 5

  1. p. 175, line 17When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  2. p. 175, line 18When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  3. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  4. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,
  5. p. 327, line 17It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,

instep 1

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

instinct 1

  1. p. 137, line 17Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness,

instincts 1

  1. p. 435, line 21[…] and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce […]

institutes 1

  1. p. 431, line 34[…] just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional, moral […]

institution 1

  1. p. 107, line 7The institution of the dear love of comrades.

institutions 5

  1. p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
  2. p. 107, line 1I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,
  3. p. 107, line 2But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
  4. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  5. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?

instrument 4

  1. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
  2. p. 292, line 15She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,
  3. p. 311, line 23And with it every instrument in multitudes,
  4. p. 358, line 1O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest,

instruments 6

  1. p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  2. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
  3. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  4. p. 310, line 17You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert,
  5. p. 315, line 1And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,
  6. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.

insult 1

  1. p. 431, line 17[…] whose underlying basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on this […]

insulted 1

  1. p. 273, line 10Dismiss'd whatever insulted my own soul or defiled my body,

insulter 1

  1. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,

insults 1

  1. p. 64, line 21That I could forget the mockers and insults!

insurrection 2

  1. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
  2. p. 287, line 16But songs of insurrection also,

integral 1

  1. p. 46, line 24I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.

intellect 5

  1. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  2. p. 108, line 22Nor literary success nor intellect, nor book for the book-shelf,
  3. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  4. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  5. p. 434, line 39[…] their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict […]

intellectual 3

  1. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
  2. p. 411, line 38[…] to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were […]
  3. p. 426, line 42[…] form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the […]

intend 1

  1. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.

intense 2

  1. p. 194, line 15With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes,
  2. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!

intent 2

  1. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  2. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,

intention 2

  1. p. 318, line 11With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,
  2. p. 434, line 15But I set out with the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since […]

intentional 1

  1. p. 38, line 17And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,

intentionally 1

  1. p. 436, line 17[…] a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the […]

intentionless 1

  1. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,

intentions 5

  1. p. 295, line 30(The intentions perfect and divine,
  2. p. 300, line 4I WAS looking a long while for Intentions,
  3. p. 324, line 6Intentions, purports, aspirations mine, leaving results to Thee.
  4. p. 425, line 18[…] own (at the time unconscious, or mostly unconscious) intentions, with certain unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to […]
  5. p. 426, line 28[…] little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were creditable—and I accept the […]

intently 1

  1. p. 20, line 25Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it,

interceding 1

  1. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,

intercept 1

  1. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,

interchange 3

  1. p. 100, line 6Interchange it youths with each other! let none render it back!)
  2. p. 124, line 17What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
  3. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,

interchanged 1

  1. p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,

interdicted 1

  1. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,

interest 8

  1. p. 290, line 12Who has been wise receives interest,
  2. p. 290, line 14The interest will come round—all will come round.
  3. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  4. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  5. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  6. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.

interesting 1

  1. p. 434, line 40[…] satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events […]

interests 3

  1. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
  2. p. 162, line 32The old, old practical burdens, interests, joys,

interior 7

  1. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  2. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  3. p. 267, line 13The unsurvey'd interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers,
  4. p. 295, line 1While through the interior vistas,
  5. p. 301, line 20Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
  6. p. 324, line 9The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
  7. p. 435, line 28[…] them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and […]

interiors 2

  1. 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,

interlaced 1

  1. p. 310, line 9With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,

interlacing 1

  1. p. 278, line 30A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne,

interlink'd 1 today: interlinked

  1. p. 26, line 3Interlink'd, food-yielding lands!

interlinked see interlink'd

interlocking 1

  1. p. 216, line 12The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,

interlocks 1

  1. p. 207, line 12A vast similitude interlocks all,

interminable 13

  1. p. 19, line 22For me an audience interminable.
  2. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
  3. p. 48, line 17Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
  4. p. 105, line 8Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
  5. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
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  1. p. 164, line 13Mark, thy interminable farms, North, South,
  2. p. 177, line 22Of the interminable sisters,
  3. p. 187, line 24These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they,
  4. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  5. p. 280, line 14I saw the interminable corps, I saw the processions of armies,
  6. p. 336, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  7. p. 437, line 26[…] to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not "good government" merely, in the […]

interminably 2

  1. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  2. p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,

intermission 1

  1. p. 17, line 7The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,

intermits 1

  1. p. 311, line 21The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,

interpenetrate 3

  1. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  2. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,

interpolation 2

  1. p. 406, line 19[…] Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting […]
  2. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,

interpret 1

  1. p. 13, line 35Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them,

interrogating 2

  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. 218, line 16WHY reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?

interrogation 1

  1. p. 407, line 13[…] or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding […]

interrupt 1

  1. p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,

intersecting 1

  1. p. 267, line 24Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points,

interspers'd 2 today: interspersed

  1. p. 236, line 6With artillery interspers'd—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
  2. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,

intersperse 1

  1. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.

interspersed see interspers'd

interstice 2

  1. p. 109, line 1A GLIMPSE through an interstice caught,
  2. p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.

intertinged 1

  1. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,

inter-transportation 1

  1. p. 163, line 7With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world,

intertwined 2

  1. p. 215, line 6Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
  2. p. 398, line 24The two old, simple problems ever intertwined,

intervals 10

  1. p. 15, line 1HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals,)
  2. p. 18, line 21Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
  3. p. 92, line 25AGES and ages returning at intervals,
  4. p. 149, line 15The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
  5. p. 198, line 3I saw, I heard at intervals the remaining one, the he-bird,
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  1. p. 249, line 26And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp,
  2. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,
  3. p. 403, line 8From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)
  4. p. 425, line 13[…] of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last […]
  5. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for […]

intervein'd 1 today: interveined

  1. p. 184, line 6Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein'd,

interveined see intervein'd

intervening 1

  1. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,

interwetting 1

  1. p. 93, line 15We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,

interwoven 1

  1. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;

intimate 2

  1. p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,
  2. 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?

intimates 1

  1. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,

into 41

  1. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  2. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  3. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
  4. p. 53, line 16The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
  5. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
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  1. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  2. p. 84, line 6Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  3. p. 98, line 22For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
  4. p. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
  5. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  6. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  9. 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,
  10. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
  11. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  12. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
  13. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  14. p. 199, line 21O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
  15. 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;
  16. p. 222, line 6Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
  17. p. 222, line 7Into the school where the scholar is studying;
  18. p. 223, line 24(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
  19. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  20. p. 266, line 22Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,
  21. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  22. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  23. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  24. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  25. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.
  26. p. 326, line 13The earth recedes from me into the night,
  27. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  28. p. 369, line 22THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
  29. p. 373, line 16Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births,
  30. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
  31. p. 422, line 12Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended into one;
  32. p. 426, line 31[…] a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to […]
  33. p. 428, line 10[…] Century, now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings […]
  34. p. 434, line 24[…] or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to pursue […]
  35. p. 436, line 16[…] emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable […]

intoxicate 1

  1. p. 29, line 21The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

intrench'd 1 today: intrenched

  1. p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,

intrenched see intrench'd

intrepid 4

  1. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  2. p. 208, line 5Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,
  3. p. 208, line 17Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,
  4. p. 208, line 19Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old,

intricate 2

  1. p. 12, line 34America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
  2. p. 44, line 1Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?

intrigues 1

  1. p. 162, line 12Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,

intrinsically 1

  1. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,

introduce 1

  1. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;

intrude 1

  1. p. 280, line 3Should the dead intrude?

intuitions 3

  1. p. 320, line 35Back, back to wisdom's birth, to innocent intuitions,
  2. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  3. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,

inure 8

  1. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  2. p. 168, line 3Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure,
  3. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  4. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  5. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  6. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,

inured 3

  1. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  2. p. 280, line 20Inured on many a hard-fought bloody field.
  3. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.

inures 1

  1. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,

invaders 1

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

invading 1

  1. p. 59, line 10I am a free companion, I bivouac by invading watchfires,

invalids 1

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

invault 1

  1. p. 263, line 24As they invault the coffin there,

invent 1

  1. p. 162, line 27To invent a little, something ingenious, to aid the washing, cooking, cleaning,

invention 2

  1. p. 160, line 18A keep for life for practical invention.
  2. p. 164, line 10Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents,

inventions 9

  1. p. 28, line 5New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
  2. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
  3. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  4. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  5. p. 276, line 16Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!)
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  1. p. 281, line 27The human-divine inventions, the labor-saving implements;
  2. p. 369, line 9The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
  3. p. 388, line 4Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,
  4. p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)

inventive 2

  1. p. 413, line 43[…] other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not […]
  2. p. 428, line 8[…] have been profounder far than the material or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its […]

inventors 4

  1. p. 20, line 19Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
  2. p. 318, line 28After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,
  3. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  4. p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,

investments 1

  1. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.

invigorates 2

  1. p. 151, line 28What invigorates life invigorates death,

invigoration 1

  1. p. 332, line 10They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night, and awake.

invincible 2

  1. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  2. p. 247, line 3Those who love each other shall become invincible,

invisible 10

  1. p. 112, line 3When you read these I that was visible am become invisible,
  2. p. 213, line 14Waiting content, invisible yet, but certain,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 365, line 8Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey'd.
  5. p. 372, line 14Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions,
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  1. p. 379, line 27For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.
  2. p. 396, line 9To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
  3. p. 418, line 18Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
  4. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?
  5. p. 437, line 15[…] purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible […]

invisibly 2

  1. p. 212, line 23But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counseling, cautioning.
  2. p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,

invitation 2

  1. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  2. p. 177, line 3Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter,

invitations 1

  1. p. 92, line 6To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!

invite 3

  1. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  2. p. 29, line 9I loafe and invite my soul,
  3. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?

invited 3

  1. p. 43, line 21The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
  2. p. 43, line 22The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;

invites 2

  1. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
  2. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,

inviting 2

  1. p. 46, line 15I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  2. p. 177, line 30Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,

invocation 1

  1. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.

invoke 3

  1. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
  2. p. 276, line 12Bards for my own land only I invoke,
  3. p. 276, line 20You by my charm I invoke.

invoking 1

  1. p. 362, line 20Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.

involv'd 2 today: involved

  1. p. 185, line 1Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
  2. p. 434, line 37[…] day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems […]

involve 2

  1. p. 409, line 30[…] words are not samples of the best, which involve vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control and […]
  2. p. 430, line 3[…] all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just […]

involved see involv'd

inward 3

  1. p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  2. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
  3. p. 390, line 24Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound,

Ionia 1

  1. p. 158, line 11Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,

Ionia's 1

  1. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,

iota 3

  1. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  2. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
  3. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,

Iowa 3

  1. p. 20, line 6Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
  2. p. 65, line 14Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California?
  3. p. 223, line 2To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)

Iowan's 1

  1. p. 146, line 16Ohioan's, Illinoisian's, Wisconsinese', Kanadian's, Iowan's, Kansian's, Missourian's, Oregonese' joys!

iris 1

  1. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,

Irish 1

  1. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,

Irishman 1

  1. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,

Irkutsk 1

  1. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,

iron 22

  1. p. 26, line 4Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice!
  2. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  3. p. 61, line 5The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
  4. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  5. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
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  1. p. 145, line 1O to work in mines, or forging iron,
  2. p. 149, line 11Lands of iron—lands of the make of the axe.
  3. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  4. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  5. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,
  6. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  7. p. 164, line 20The inexhaustible iron in thy mines.
  8. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  9. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
  10. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  11. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,
  12. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,
  13. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  14. p. 310, line 9With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
  15. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  16. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,

ironical 6

  1. p. 57, line 1At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
  2. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  3. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  4. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  5. p. 202, line 30With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
  6. p. 227, line 19I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,

ironically 1

  1. p. 230, line 3Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;

iron-works 1

  1. 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,

Iroquois 1

  1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,

irrational 2

  1. p. 16, line 7Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
  2. p. 275, line 6I will not be outfaced by irrational things,

irrefragable 1

  1. p. 430, line 37[…] universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences in […]

irregular 4

  1. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  2. p. 149, line 14The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,
  3. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  4. p. 248, line 8The skirmishers begin, they crawl cautiously ahead, I hear the irregular snap! snap!

irrepressible 2

  1. p. 26, line 21O death! O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with irrepressible love,
  2. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.

irresistible 5

  1. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 158, line 20Join'd with an irresistible, natural gravitation,
  4. p. 272, line 23Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power;
  5. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,

irrespective 1

  1. p. 431, line 37[…] poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they are of incalculable value as […]

irretrievable 1

  1. p. 64, line 2These so, these irretrievable.

irritable 1

  1. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,

irruptions 1

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

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Isis 1

  1. p. 67, line 8Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha,

island 12

  1. p. 56, line 24Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
  2. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  3. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,
  4. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
  5. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
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  1. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
  2. p. 202, line 15These you presented to me you fish-shaped island,
  3. p. 203, line 8You fish-shaped island, I take what is underfoot,
  4. p. 203, line 13I too leave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island.
  5. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,
  6. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  7. p. 433, line 9[…] the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the […]

islands 19

  1. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
  2. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
  3. p. 114, line 17The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
  4. p. 119, line 14All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
  5. p. 120, line 18All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
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  1. p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
  2. p. 141, line 12In space the sporades, the scatter'd islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
  3. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
  4. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  5. p. 194, line 26The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,
  6. p. 195, line 8From the southern peninsulas and the demi-continental islands, from Malaysia,
  7. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
  8. p. 235, line 10A LINE in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
  9. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
  10. p. 323, line 17I take my way along the island's edge,
  11. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,
  12. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,
  13. p. 432, line 35[…] stretch, down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores—there, in the presence of outdoor influences, I went […]

isle 3

  1. p. 284, line 7FAR hence amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
  2. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  3. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

isolate 1

  1. p. 268, line 19O days of the future I believe in you—I isolate myself for your sake,

isolated 3

  1. p. 275, line 22America isolated yet embodying all, what is it finally except myself?
  2. p. 343, line 15I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
  3. p. 437, line 29Isolated advantages in any rank or grace or fortune—the direct […]

isolation 1

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

issue 2

  1. p. 302, line 1Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
  2. p. 368, line 1For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,

issued 1

  1. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;

issuing 6

  1. p. 12, line 16Issuing eidólons.
  2. p. 181, line 12Successive absolute fiats issuing.
  3. p. 306, line 30Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,
  4. p. 349, line 3Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing,
  5. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;
  6. p. 399, line 9(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,

ist 1

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

isthmus 2

  1. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
  2. p. 191, line 3The proud black ships of Manhattan arriving, some fill'd with immigrants, some from the isthmus with cargoes of gold,

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Italian 5

  1. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  2. p. 113, line 8I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
  3. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
  4. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
  5. p. 309, line 19Music, Italian music in Dakota.

italia's 1

  1. p. 312, line 24Italia's peerless compositions.

Italy 2

  1. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  2. p. 315, line 11Nor vocalism of sun-bright Italy,

itch 1

  1. p. 75, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

itches 1

  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,

item 3

  1. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  2. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,

items 2

  1. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  2. p. 438, line 33Concluding with two items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily […]

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itself 85

  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  2. p. 11, line 8Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)
  3. p. 11, line 18(A war O soldiers not for itself alone,
  4. p. 11, line 27As a wheel on its axis turns, this book unwitting to itself,
  5. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
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  1. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  2. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  3. p. 32, line 14I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
  4. p. 33, line 9Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
  5. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
  6. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  7. p. 50, line 14Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself,
  8. p. 53, line 17(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  9. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  10. p. 81, line 24The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account,
  11. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
  12. p. 95, line 19Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,
  13. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
  14. p. 97, line 4I will say what I have to say by itself,
  15. 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.)
  16. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  17. p. 128, line 16Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
  18. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  19. p. 137, line 1Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
  20. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
  21. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  22. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
  23. p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
  24. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  25. p. 162, line 3Away with themes of war! away with war itself!
  26. p. 163, line 2The house-comforts, the house itself and all its belongings,
  27. p. 163, line 28Behold, the sea itself,
  28. p. 171, line 5I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
  29. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  30. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
  31. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  32. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
  33. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  34. p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
  35. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  36. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  37. p. 211, line 13Like lightning it le'pt forth half startled at itself,
  38. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  39. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  40. p. 250, line 4Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,
  41. p. 264, line 9A Nation announcing itself,
  42. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
  43. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
  44. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,
  45. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  46. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  47. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  48. p. 285, line 20O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
  49. p. 289, line 23The soul is of itself,
  50. p. 291, line 12Itself only finally satisfies the soul,
  51. p. 306, line 27Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself,
  52. p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
  53. p. 312, line 6(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
  54. p. 312, line 7This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.)
  55. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  56. p. 343, line 17It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
  57. p. 347, line 5But leave to those to come the house itself.
  58. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  59. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,
  60. 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,
  61. p. 390, line 18Weaving from you, from Sleep, Night, Death itself,
  62. p. 391, line 17(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
  63. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  64. p. 396, line 11A song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge,
  65. p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;
  66. p. 408, line 29[…] will this vast rich Union ever realize what itself cost, back there after all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those […]
  67. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
  68. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,
  69. p. 418, line 6A day—a passing moment or an hour—America itself bends low,
  70. p. 426, line 17[…] the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I think I have at […]
  71. p. 426, line 33[…] in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims […]
  72. p. 426, line 39[…] hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or […]
  73. p. 428, line 5[…] would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]
  74. p. 436, line 25[…] am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality of it is altogether in its relations, bearings […]

ivory 1

  1. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;