Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “know”

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  1. p. 10, line 23You too as a lone bark cleaving the ether, purpos'd I know not whither, yet ever full of faith,
  2. p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
  3. p. 15, line 4How people respond to them, yet know them not,
  4. p. 23, line 8Know you, solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater religion,
  5. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  6. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  7. p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
  8. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  9. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  10. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  11. p. 34, line 17(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)
  12. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  13. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  14. p. 44, line 22I know I am solid and sound,
  15. p. 44, line 25I know I am deathless,
  16. p. 44, line 26I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
  17. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  18. p. 45, line 2I know I am august,
  19. p. 45, line 14And I know the amplitude of time.
  20. p. 50, line 18Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
  21. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  22. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  23. p. 69, line 5I know perfectly well my own egotism,
  24. p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
  25. p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
  26. p. 70, line 15I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  27. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  28. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  29. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  30. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  31. p. 75, line 26On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
  32. p. 76, line 24And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
  33. p. 77, line 21There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.
  34. p. 77, line 24I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid,
  35. p. 79, line 1You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  36. p. 85, line 10Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
  37. p. 85, line 16I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business.
  38. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  39. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  40. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  41. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  42. p. 93, line 26So the body of me to all I meet or know.
  43. 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;
  44. p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
  45. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  46. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  47. p. 105, line 1Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
  48. p. 106, line 8I know very well I could not.
  49. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  50. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  51. p. 106, line 24O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
  52. p. 106, line 25I know I should be happy with them.
  53. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  54. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  55. p. 121, line 7I know they are very well where they are,
  56. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
  57. p. 123, line 4I did not know I held so much goodness.
  58. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  59. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
  60. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  61. p. 127, line 22They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
  62. p. 127, line 23But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
  63. p. 128, line 4It is useless to protest, I know all and expose it.
  64. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  65. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  66. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  67. p. 136, line 5And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  68. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
  69. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  70. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  71. p. 158, line 17For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits, demands you.
  72. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  73. p. 166, line 24(For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity,
  74. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  75. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  76. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  77. p. 177, line 25The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
  78. p. 180, line 25Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
  79. p. 182, line 12That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
  80. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  81. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  82. p. 193, line 4And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,
  83. p. 193, line 12Libertad! I do not know whether others behold what I behold,
  84. p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
  85. p. 198, line 13He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.
  86. p. 198, line 14Yes my brother I know,
  87. p. 199, line 2Surely you must know who is here, is here,
  88. p. 199, line 3You must know who I am, my love.
  89. p. 200, line 31Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,
  90. p. 202, line 2As I wended the shores I know,
  91. p. 202, line 16As I wended the shores I know,
  92. p. 202, line 18As I wend to the shores I know not,
  93. p. 204, line 10We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
  94. p. 213, line 23Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know,
  95. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  96. p. 224, line 22Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings,
  97. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
  98. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  99. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  100. p. 240, line 14Young man I think I know you—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,
  101. p. 251, line 17I know I am restless and make others so,
  102. p. 251, line 18I know my words are weapons full of danger, full of death,
  103. p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
  104. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
  105. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  106. p. 260, line 6The gray-brown bird I know receiv'd us comrades three,
  107. p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
  108. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  109. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,
  110. p. 275, line 14I will know if I am to be less than they,
  111. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,
  112. p. 275, line 27I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for,
  113. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  114. p. 284, line 17For know you the one you mourn is not in that grave,
  115. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  116. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  117. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  118. p. 294, line 11Thou, soul, unloosen'd—the restlessness after I know not what;
  119. p. 294, line 24The life thou lived'st we know not,
  120. p. 299, line 3I see what you do not—I know what you do not.)
  121. p. 301, line 2As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,
  122. p. 305, line 5I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  123. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  124. p. 307, line 16They all know him, all are affectionate to him;
  125. p. 308, line 3Now only do I know you,
  126. p. 310, line 5Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
  127. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  128. p. 324, line 15The end I know not, it is all in Thee,
  129. p. 324, line 16Or small or great I know not—haply what broad fields, what lands,
  130. p. 324, line 17Haply the brutish measureless human undergrowth I know,
  131. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,
  132. p. 324, line 20Haply the lifeless cross I know, Europe's dead cross, may bud and blossom there.
  133. p. 324, line 36Thee, Thee at least I know.
  134. p. 325, line 2What do I know of life? what of myself?
  135. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  136. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  137. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  138. p. 337, line 12Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
  139. p. 338, line 7I know it not O soul,
  140. p. 341, line 8YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also,
  141. p. 342, line 13QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
  142. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  143. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  144. p. 352, line 11I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,
  145. p. 352, line 14I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)
  146. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  147. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  148. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,
  149. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  150. p. 365, line 16We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave.
  151. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  152. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  153. p. 370, line 2A dread beyond of I know not what darkens me.
  154. p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
  155. p. 378, line 22(Full well they know that message in the darkness,
  156. p. 389, line 2A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why,
  157. p. 390, line 15I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;
  158. p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,
  159. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
  160. p. 409, line 11We know not whence, (was the answer,)
  161. p. 409, line 12We only know that we drift here with the rest,
  162. p. 414, line 16Hast thou no soul? Can I not know, identify thee?
  163. p. 419, line 6Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every life;
  164. p. 422, line 3I'm going away, I know not where,
  165. p. 428, line 37[…] and relative at the best. There are, I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets […]
  166. p. 429, line 34[…] and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very well that my "Leaves" could not possibly have emerged […]
  167. p. 429, line 40[…] friends claim it for me or not, I know well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic […]
  168. p. 437, line 32[…] foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd […]