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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jack'd 1 today: jacked

  1. p. 156, line 11The shape measur'd, saw'd, jack'd, join'd, stain'd,

jacked see jack'd

Jacket 1

  1. p. 384, line 34[…] Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of […]

jack-plane 2

  1. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
  2. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)

jack-screw 1

  1. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,

Jaffa's 1

  1. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,

jagged 3

  1. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  2. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;

jags 1

  1. p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

jail 2

  1. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  2. p. 419, line 22The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant,

jailer 1

  1. p. 212, line 5Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.

jails 1

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

jamb 3

  1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,
  2. p. 237, line 17By the jamb of a door leans.
  3. p. 329, line 19She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fireplace, she cook'd food for her,

jambs 1

  1. p. 48, line 10Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Janeiro 1

  1. p. 115, line 8Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.

Japan 2

  1. p. 106, line 22Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or Japan, talking other dialects,
  2. p. 114, line 15The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its mountains,

Japanee 1

  1. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,

Japanese 1

  1. p. 119, line 12You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!

jaunt 1

  1. p. 425, line 12[…] completing, as it were, the journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or […]

jauntily 1

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

jaw-hinges 1

  1. p. 87, line 5Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,

jaws 2

  1. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  2. p. 87, line 5Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,

jay 1

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

jealous 4

  1. p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
  2. p. 71, line 14I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
  3. p. 330, line 2I am jealous and overwhelm'd with friendliness,
  4. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;

jealousies 1

  1. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,

jealousy 1

  1. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,

jeer 2

  1. p. 41, line 4The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  2. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)

Jefferson's 1

  1. p. 391, line 25Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.

Jehovah 2

  1. p. 67, line 6Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
  2. p. 339, line 3Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed,) from this side Jehovah am I,

jellies 1

  1. p. 88, line 2The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,

jelly 1

  1. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,

Jenny 2

  1. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;
  2. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,

jeopardized 1

  1. p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to […]

jerks 1

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

Jerusalem 2

  1. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  2. p. 159, line 9Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind, extinct,

jest 1

  1. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,

jet 1

  1. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!

jets 5

  1. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
  2. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  3. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
  4. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
  5. p. 302, line 1Forth issue then in copious golden jets,

jetting 2

  1. p. 66, line 16(This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.)
  2. p. 331, line 9Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,

Jew 3

  1. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  2. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.

Jews 1

  1. p. 119, line 6You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!

jib 2

  1. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,
  2. p. 409, line 2Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth,

jibes 1

  1. p. 153, line 23Where are your jibes of being now?

jibs 1

  1. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,

jigs 2

  1. p. 56, line 27Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,
  2. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,

jingling 1

  1. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,

job 1

  1. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;

jobbers 1

  1. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,

jobs 1

  1. p. 326, line 22Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine,

jocund 7

  1. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  2. p. 294, line 4All that is jocund and sparkling, the brooks running,
  3. p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
  4. p. 386, line 6Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast,
  5. p. 406, line 7[…] Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended […]
  6. p. 410, line 1ON, on the same, ye jocund twain!
  7. p. 410, line 14On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same!

join 6

  1. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
  2. p. 143, line 25Is the tide out? I join the group of clam-diggers on the flats,
  3. p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
  4. p. 195, line 12For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant,
  5. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
  6. p. 301, line 25Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.

join'd 5 today: joined

  1. p. 112, line 9Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
  2. p. 156, line 11The shape measur'd, saw'd, jack'd, join'd, stain'd,
  3. p. 158, line 20Join'd with an irresistible, natural gravitation,
  4. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  5. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,

joined see join'd

joiner 1

  1. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.

joining 3

  1. p. 13, line 4Joining eidólons.
  2. p. 167, line 10Joining with master-tongue bore part.
  3. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,

joins 1

  1. p. 73, line 2He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,

jointing 1

  1. p. 150, line 5The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising,

joints 10

  1. p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  2. p. 82, line 1It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  3. p. 87, line 12Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 213, line 7Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination,
  6. p. 331, line 10The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportion'd and plumb.
  7. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,

joke 1

  1. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;

jokes 1

  1. p. 35, line 9The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,

jolly 1

  1. p. 64, line 11(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)

jolt 2

  1. p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  2. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,

jolts 1

  1. p. 35, line 25I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other,

Jonathan 2

  1. p. 209, line 20Clear the way there Jonathan!
  2. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,

jostling 1

  1. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,

jot 3

  1. p. 88, line 20They are not one jot less than I am,
  2. p. 170, line 21The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  3. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;

jour 1

  1. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,

journals 1

  1. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,

journey 14

  1. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  2. p. 73, line 16I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)
  3. p. 196, line 2The ring is circled, the journey is done,
  4. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
  5. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
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  1. p. 214, line 10(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
  2. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  3. p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
  4. p. 311, line 33The journey done, the journeyman come home,
  5. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  6. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  7. p. 404, line 14A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)
  8. p. 407, line 5[…] maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough […]
  9. p. 425, line 12[…] travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps […]

journey'd 2 today: journeyed

  1. 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,)
  2. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;

journeyed see journey'd

journeyers 6

  1. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
  2. p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
  3. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
  4. p. 126, line 25Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass'd, content,
  5. p. 126, line 26Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,

journeyest 1

  1. p. 322, line 5Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;

journeying 4

  1. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
  2. 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,
  3. p. 324, line 5Sailing the deep or journeying the land for Thee;
  4. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.

journeyman 2

  1. p. 304, line 9Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist,
  2. p. 311, line 33The journey done, the journeyman come home,

journeymen 2

  1. p. 295, line 20Were groups of friendly journeymen, mechanics young and old,
  2. p. 326, line 22Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine,

journeys 4

  1. p. 15, line 11ON journeys through the States we start,
  2. p. 127, line 4Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
  3. p. 192, line 1With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,
  4. p. 256, line 18Night and day journeys a coffin.

journey-work 1

  1. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,

joy 76

  1. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  2. p. 49, line 24Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy,
  3. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  4. p. 92, line 11With one brief hour of madness and joy.
  5. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
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  1. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  2. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  3. p. 106, line 11I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
  4. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  5. p. 142, line 16O the joy of my spirit—it is uncaged—it darts like lightning!
  6. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  7. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  8. p. 143, line 14O the joy of increase, growth, recuperation,
  9. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.
  10. p. 145, line 25O the old manhood of me, my noblest joy of all!
  11. p. 145, line 28O ripen'd joy of womanhood! O happiness at last!
  12. 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,
  13. p. 146, line 26O the joy of a manly self-hood!
  14. p. 147, line 7Joy of the glad light-beaming day, joy of the wide-breath'd games?
  15. p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
  16. p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
  17. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  18. p. 168, line 3Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure,
  19. p. 181, line 24Health to emerge and joy, joy universal.
  20. p. 200, line 9O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
  21. p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
  22. p. 221, line 12But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
  23. p. 223, line 26I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
  24. p. 228, line 20I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves,
  25. p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
  26. p. 260, line 19For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
  27. p. 261, line 8I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee O death.
  28. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
  29. p. 281, line 3The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility.
  30. p. 293, line 24WARBLE me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,)
  31. p. 294, line 21A warble for joy of lilac-time, returning in reminiscence.
  32. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
  33. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  34. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  35. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.
  36. p. 316, line 16You too with joy I sing.
  37. p. 323, line 11O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
  38. p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
  39. p. 338, line 15Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.
  40. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  41. p. 358, line 15Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
  42. p. 358, line 19Hymns to the universal God from universal man—all joy!
  43. p. 358, line 20A reborn race appears—a perfect world, all joy!
  44. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!
  45. p. 358, line 22Riotous laughing bacchanals fill'd with joy!
  46. p. 358, line 23War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing but joy left!
  47. p. 358, line 24The ocean fill'd with joy—the atmosphere all joy!
  48. p. 358, line 25Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life!
  49. p. 358, line 27Joy! joy! all over joy!
  50. p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,
  51. p. 379, line 4Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,
  52. p. 379, line 15JOY, shipmate, joy!
  53. p. 379, line 21Joy, shipmate, joy.
  54. p. 386, line 2My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
  55. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  56. p. 412, line 23Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought,
  57. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,
  58. p. 431, line 1[…] The New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund […]

joy'd 1 today: joyed

  1. p. 422, line 9Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;

joyed see joy'd

joyful 2

  1. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,
  2. p. 398, line 23Thanks—joyful thanks!—a soldier's, traveler's thanks.

joyfully 4

  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. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  4. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

joyous 15

  1. p. 10, line 9Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails,
  2. p. 95, line 9Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
  3. p. 105, line 23Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
  4. p. 105, line 25But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
  5. p. 106, line 7Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
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  1. p. 164, line 8Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
  2. p. 185, line 7All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying,
  3. p. 309, line 6From these your future song may rise with joyous trills,
  4. p. 310, line 8Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
  5. p. 321, line 3Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,
  6. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,
  7. p. 347, line 11Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
  8. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.
  9. p. 379, line 8To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all,
  10. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,

joyously 6

  1. p. 36, line 7My eyes settle the land, I bend at her prow or shout joyously from the deck.
  2. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  3. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  4. p. 277, line 28Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding,
  5. p. 416, line 22And wholly and joyously blends them.

joys 48

  1. p. 14, line 2Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations,
  2. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  3. p. 94, line 2Give me now libidinous joys only,
  4. p. 105, line 5CITY of orgies, walks and joys,
  5. p. 142, line 19O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive!
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  1. p. 143, line 4O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys!
  2. p. 143, line 6O the fireman's joys!
  3. p. 143, line 12O the mother's joys!
  4. p. 145, line 4O to resume the joys of the soldier!
  5. p. 145, line 12O the whaleman's joys! O I cruise my old cruise again!
  6. p. 146, line 5O the orator's joys!
  7. p. 146, line 15O the farmer's joys!
  8. p. 146, line 16Ohioan's, Illinoisian's, Wisconsinese', Kanadian's, Iowan's, Kansian's, Missourian's, Oregonese' joys!
  9. p. 147, line 5Know'st thou the excellent joys of youth?
  10. p. 147, line 6Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face?
  11. p. 147, line 11Know'st thou the joys of pensive thought?
  12. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
  13. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  14. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  15. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  16. p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
  17. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  18. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  19. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  20. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  21. p. 162, line 32The old, old practical burdens, interests, joys,
  22. p. 166, line 20And all you venerable and innocent joys,
  23. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  24. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  25. p. 166, line 26Joys of the life befitting me and brothers mine,
  26. p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  27. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  28. p. 197, line 10I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
  29. p. 205, line 14What joys! what joys were thine!
  30. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  31. p. 242, line 12(Both I remember well—many the hardships, few the joys, yet I was content.)
  32. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  33. p. 278, line 27Thou art all over set in births and joys!
  34. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  35. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  36. p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
  37. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,
  38. p. 400, line 17Away with your life of peace!—your joys of peace!
  39. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,
  40. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)

Juan 1

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

jubilant 2

  1. p. 142, line 10O TO make the most jubilant song!
  2. p. 225, line 12I hear the jubilant shouts of millions of men, I hear Liberty!

jubilate 1

  1. p. 411, line 14Now triumph! transformation! jubilate! *

Judæa 1

  1. p. 58, line 12Walking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my side,

judge 9

  1. p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  2. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.
  3. p. 220, line 6The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
  4. p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
  5. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
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  1. p. 290, line 13Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the same,
  2. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  3. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
  4. p. 420, line 11Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,

judges 10

  1. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  2. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
  3. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  4. p. 219, line 3Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
  5. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
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  1. p. 305, line 13Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges,
  2. p. 305, line 14They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
  3. p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
  4. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,

judgment 1

  1. p. 269, line 19He is no arguer, he is judgment, (Nature accepts him absolutely,)

judgments 2

  1. p. 339, line 6Unpersuadable, relentless, executing righteous judgments,
  2. p. 339, line 12I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse.

jug 1

  1. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,

juice 3

  1. p. 50, line 4Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  2. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,
  3. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,

juicy 2

  1. p. 244, line 10Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
  2. p. 286, line 26That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,

July 2

  1. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  2. p. 408, line 9[…] death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel […]

jump 3

  1. p. 35, line 26I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy,
  2. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  3. p. 176, line 19It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,

jumping 1

  1. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,

junction 1

  1. p. 50, line 5The earth by the sky staid with, the daily close of their junction,

jungles 2

  1. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,
  2. p. 432, line 31[…] of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty years […]

junior 2

  1. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  2. p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,

juniper-tree 1

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

Jupiter 6

  1. p. 206, line 4Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
  2. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  3. p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
  4. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,
  5. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,
  6. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!

jury 2

  1. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  2. p. 420, line 11Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,

just 84

  1. p. 15, line 24And may be just as much as the seasons.
  2. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  3. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  4. 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.)
  5. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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  1. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  2. p. 43, line 4If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
  3. p. 43, line 19It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous, I make appointments with all,
  4. p. 46, line 7Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  5. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  6. p. 67, line 17Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
  7. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  8. p. 79, line 17Or in front, and I following her just the same.
  9. p. 81, line 10From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave,
  10. p. 85, line 5Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
  11. p. 85, line 6Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off, just as much as you,
  12. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  13. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  14. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  15. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  16. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  17. p. 130, line 10Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
  18. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  19. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  20. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
  21. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  22. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  23. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  24. p. 149, line 7Welcome just as much the other more hard-faced lands,
  25. p. 151, line 25The list of all executive deeds and words just or unjust,
  26. p. 151, line 26The power of personality just or unjust.
  27. p. 166, line 5Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves,
  28. 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,
  29. p. 170, line 22The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
  30. p. 172, line 14I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
  31. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  32. p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
  33. p. 182, line 9Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard,
  34. p. 199, line 24Soft! let me just murmur,
  35. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  36. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
  37. p. 204, line 8Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
  38. p. 204, line 9Just as much whence we come that blare of the cloud-trumpets,
  39. p. 232, line 26'Twas a bold act then—the English war-ships had just arrived,
  40. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  41. p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
  42. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  43. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
  44. p. 240, line 8Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
  45. p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,
  46. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
  47. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
  48. p. 290, line 4The indirect is just as much as the direct,
  49. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
  50. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  51. p. 301, line 5Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  52. p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  53. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  54. p. 333, line 7If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  55. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  56. p. 335, line 3To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them, yet we make little or no account.
  57. p. 337, line 17What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
  58. p. 338, line 21I see, just see skyward, great cloud-masses,
  59. p. 344, line 10Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,
  60. p. 355, line 29The sun just shines on her old white head.
  61. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,
  62. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  63. p. 386, line 26Is it not just as great, O soul?
  64. p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
  65. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)
  66. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,
  67. p. 420, line 15Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,
  68. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind […]
  69. p. 430, line 3[…] only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the […]
  70. p. 431, line 33[…] authoritative types of song they belong in America just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict […]
  71. p. 434, line 2[…] in my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only from the […]
  72. p. 434, line 22[…] always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine. I seek less […]
  73. p. 435, line 37[…] To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same. The times and depictions from the Iliad to […]
  74. p. 436, line 9[…] they live and are read, it must be just as much South as North—just as much along the […]
  75. p. 436, line 10[…] must be just as much South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the valley […]
  76. p. 437, line 15[…] entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete […]
  77. p. 437, line 21[…] main genesis-motive of the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth of […]

just-felt 1

  1. p. 258, line 24The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,

just-grown 1

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

justice 10

  1. p. 137, line 4The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
  2. p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
  3. p. 188, line 17Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
  4. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  5. p. 272, line 23Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power;
  6. p. 303, line 5Unfolded out of the justice of the woman all justice is unfolded,
  7. p. 380, line 26I announce justice triumphant,

justification 3

  1. p. 380, line 28I announce the justification of candor and the justification of pride.
  2. p. 437, line 28[…] government" merely, in the common sense—is the justification and main purpose of these United States […]

justifications 1

  1. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.

justified 11

  1. p. 181, line 21Not the right only justified, what we call evil also justified.
  2. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  3. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  4. p. 319, line 4The whole earth, this cold, impassive, voiceless earth, shall be completely justified,
  5. p. 336, line 5The preparations have every one been justified,
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  1. p. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  2. p. 347, line 27Thought of man justified, blended with God,
  3. p. 356, line 5The justified mother of men.
  4. p. 363, line 8How, justified by it, the horrors, evils, battles of the earth!
  5. p. 368, line 17Were all so justified.

justifies 1

  1. p. 272, line 10America justifies itself, give it time, no disguise can deceive it or conceal from it, it is impassive enough,

justify 9

  1. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  2. p. 18, line 4Arouse! for you must justify me.
  3. p. 20, line 17Why these are the children of the antique to justify it.
  4. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  5. p. 189, line 9I will run transpose it in words, to justify it,
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  1. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  2. p. 310, line 12To justify the past.
  3. p. 318, line 19Who justify these restless explorations?
  4. p. 437, line 5[…] record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is Milton's well-known and […]

justifying 1

  1. p. 410, line 7Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—here at the west a voice triumphant—justifying all,

just-open'd 1

  1. p. 41, line 2The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just-open'd lips,

just-sustain'd 1

  1. p. 199, line 31With this just-sustain'd note I announce myself to you,