Concordance

L 1

1. p. 406, line 35[…] The Commonplace, 419. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L. of G.'s Purport, 420. The Unexpress'd, 421. Grand is the Seen […]

label 1

1. p. 353, line 24This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,

labial 2

1. p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
2. p. 338, line 17Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals,

labor 12

1. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
2. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
3. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
4. p. 162, line 8Thy pennants labor, loosen'd to the breeze,
5. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,

laborer 2

1. p. 157, line 24(AH little recks the laborer,
2. p. 157, line 26The loving Laborer through space and time.)

laborers 7

1. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
2. p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
3. p. 85, line 4No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers' gang?
4. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
5. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
6. p. 295, line 5In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
7. p. 393, line 15Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,

laboring 6

1. p. 118, line 5I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,
2. p. 161, line 20The male and female many laboring not,
3. p. 161, line 21Shall ever here confront the laboring many,
4. p. 289, line 6Some prowling through woods, some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,
5. p. 295, line 22All, all the shows of laboring life,
6. p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,

labors 2

1. p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
2. p. 369, line 6Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,)

labor-saving 3

1. p. 108, line 18NO labor-saving machine,
2. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,
3. p. 281, line 27The human-divine inventions, the labor-saving implements;

Labrador 1

1. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,

labyrinth 1

1. p. 182, line 13Along the mighty labyrinth.

lace 1

1. p. 421, line 21Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn,

lack 5

1. p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
2. 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,
3. p. 183, line 2Nay but the lack of it the dream,
4. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
5. p. 429, line 28[…] hand, what may be call'd the negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to […]

lackest 2

1. p. 309, line 28What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,)
2. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?

lacking 9

1. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
2. p. 88, line 6A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
3. p. 88, line 7Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.
4. p. 177, line 5To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I?
5. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
6. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,
7. p. 421, line 10(Who knows? the best yet unexpress'd and lacking.)

lacks 2

1. p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
2. p. 426, line 23[…] than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from the first, and has […]

lacy 1

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

lad 2

1. p. 239, line 11At my feet more distinctly a soldier, a mere lad, in danger of bleeding to death, (he is shot in the abdomen,)
2. p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,

ladders 1

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

ladies 4

1. p. 154, line 23Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown'd ladies, impeach'd ministers, rejected kings,
2. p. 355, line 23I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
3. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,
4. p. 389, line 11Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,

ladled 1

1. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,

lads 1

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

lady 6

1. p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
2. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
3. p. 221, line 9And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
4. p. 292, line 13Calmly a lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand,
5. p. 293, line 20Resumed, the large calm lady walks the narrow aisle,
6. p. 313, line 7(The teeming lady comes,

lady-flower 1

1. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;

lady's 1

1. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?

lag 2

1. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
2. p. 382, line 3What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth?

lag'd'st 1

1. p. 366, line 2Lag'd'st thou so long? shall the clouds close again upon thee?

laggards 2

1. p. 64, line 3You laggards there on guard! look to your arms!
2. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.

lagg'd 1 today: lagged

1. p. 409, line 13That we linger'd and lagg'd—but were wafted at last, and are now here,

lagging 2

1. p. 198, line 29It is lagging—O I think it is heavy with love, with love.
2. p. 199, line 20Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!

lagoon 1

1. p. 403, line 1In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,

lagoons 1

1. p. 143, line 20O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast,

lags 2

1. p. 176, line 18The earth neither lags nor hastens,
2. p. 331, line 7The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind,

laid 9

1. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
2. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
3. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.
4. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
5. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,

laid-up 1

1. p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,

lair 2

1. p. 211, line 12SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,

lake 7

1. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
2. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
3. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,
4. p. 297, line 10After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
5. p. 305, line 18Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon,
6. p. 317, line 12I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,
7. p. 356, line 25Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.

lakes 16

1. p. 16, line 11A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
2. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
3. p. 42, line 11A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;
4. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
5. p. 116, line 13I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,

lambent 7

1. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
2. p. 268, line 9With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
3. p. 281, line 22With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you.
4. p. 295, line 3Lambent tableaus, prophetic, bodiless scenes,
5. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
6. p. 384, line 74[…] Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
7. p. 404, line 8The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.

lambs 1

1. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,

lament 1

1. p. 344, line 4O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)

lamentable 2

1. p. 353, line 17This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
2. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.

lamentation 2

1. p. 71, line 15All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
2. p. 71, line 16(What have I to do with lamentation?)

lamps 7

1. p. 53, line 20I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
2. p. 69, line 24Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
3. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
4. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
5. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.
6. p. 359, line 16Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,
7. p. 398, line 4Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,

lance 3

1. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
2. p. 117, line 7I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance,
3. p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,

Lancelot 1

1. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;

land-bird 1

1. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,

landed 4

1. p. 85, line 5Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
2. p. 227, line 25Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
3. p. 232, line 29A few days more and they landed, and then the battle.
4. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,

landing 2

1. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
2. p. 155, line 10Hut, tent, landing, survey,

landings 1

1. p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,

land-lock'd 2

1. p. 114, line 15The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its mountains,
2. p. 394, line 4Old age land-lock'd within its winter bay—(cold, cold, O cold!)

landlord 1

1. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.

landmarks 3

1. p. 370, line 20I see the landmarks of European kings removed,
2. p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
3. p. 401, line 5How changed the place—all the old land-marks gone—the parents dead;

lands 97

1. p. 9, line 13The genius of poets of old lands,
2. p. 11, line 14Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands,
3. p. 13, line 2Of vanish'd lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,
4. p. 18, line 16After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
5. p. 20, line 27Here lands female and male,

landscape 10

1. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
2. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
3. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,
4. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
5. p. 178, line 7From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,

landscapes 3

1. p. 53, line 9Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.
2. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
3. p. 396, line 17(Race of the woods, the landscapes free, and the falls!

landsmen 1

1. p. 185, line 3All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,

landward 1

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

lane 1

1. p. 58, line 2Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach,

lanes 7

1. p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
2. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
3. p. 143, line 19And through the orchard and along the old lanes once more.
4. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
5. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
6. p. 256, line 19Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,
7. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,

language 7

1. p. 87, line 23The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,
2. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
3. p. 163, line 20Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language,
4. p. 214, line 1FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
5. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
6. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
7. p. 349, line 8By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,

languages 8

1. p. 171, line 11You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
2. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
3. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
4. p. 194, line 12The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,
5. p. 207, line 18All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
6. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
7. p. 300, line 11It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
8. p. 324, line 25Beyond all signs, descriptions, languages;

language-shapers 1

1. p. 20, line 20Language-shapers on other shores,

languishing 2

1. p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
2. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,

lank 2

1. p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
2. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

lap 2

1. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
2. p. 251, line 15AS I lay with my head in your lap camerado,

Lapp 1

1. p. 119, line 26You dwarf'd Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!

lapping 3

1. p. 80, line 9Of the wet of woods, of the lapping of waves,
2. p. 139, line 3In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,
3. p. 198, line 26And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,

laps 3

1. p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
2. p. 33, line 19And here you are the mothers' laps.
3. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.

lapsing 1

1. p. 313, line 15The waltz, some delicious measure, lapsing, bathing me in bliss,

Laramie 1

1. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,

larceny 1

1. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.

large 49

1. p. 10, line 7With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
2. p. 12, line 27The whole or large or small summ'd, added up,
3. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
4. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
5. p. 46, line 2Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!

large-ball'd 1

1. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.

largely 1

1. p. 425, line 25[…] years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on memory,) I look upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd […]

largeness 1

1. p. 145, line 27My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.

larger 5

1. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
2. p. 123, line 3I am larger, better than I thought,
3. p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,
4. p. 349, line 25Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, male—thee in thy athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
5. p. 361, line 6The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,

large-sized 1

1. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,

largest 4

1. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
2. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
3. p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
4. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.

lark 1

1. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;

larkspur 1

1. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,

lash'd 1 today: lashed

1. p. 62, line 14My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.

lashes 2

1. p. 224, line 18Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,
2. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,

lashing 1

1. p. 208, line 25Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,

Lassa 1

1. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!

lasso 1

1. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,

last-born 2

1. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
2. p. 309, line 23(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)

lasting 5

1. p. 108, line 15HERE the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,
2. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
3. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
4. p. 421, line 12Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
5. p. 421, line 18More multiform far—more lasting thou than they.

late 20

1. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
2. p. 59, line 1I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest,
3. p. 78, line 15Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?
4. p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
5. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,

lately 5

1. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
2. p. 154, line 19(Whom have you slaughter'd lately European headsman?
3. p. 236, line 25Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
4. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
5. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,

latencies 1

1. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.

latent 19

1. p. 11, line 21Thou seething principle! thou well-kept, latent germ! thou centre!
2. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
3. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
4. p. 121, line 26I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.
5. p. 126, line 23Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days,

later 6

1. p. 99, line 19Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go,
2. p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
3. p. 260, line 17Sooner or later delicate death.
4. p. 352, line 24Prepare the later afternoon of me myself—prepare my lengthening shadows,
5. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)
6. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off […]

late-risen 1

1. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,

latest 6

1. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
2. p. 163, line 7With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world,
3. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
4. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
5. p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
6. p. 324, line 26For that O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees,

late-years 1

1. p. 408, line 16[…] even vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the […]

lath 1

1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

latherers 1

1. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,

laths 1

1. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;

latitude 1

1. p. 112, line 20Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens,

latitudes 1

1. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,

latter 6

1. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
2. p. 411, line 35[…] whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting those at that time […]
3. p. 429, line 36[…] or completed, from any other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than […]
4. p. 433, line 7[…] among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter mostly in an old wood. The Iliad (Buckley's prose version […]
5. p. 438, line 2[…] his suite of students, he said to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to what school the […]
6. p. 438, line 11[…] a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and […]

laudanum 1

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

laugh 13

1. p. 31, line 14I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
2. p. 41, line 4The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
3. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)
4. p. 45, line 13I laugh at what you call dissolution,
5. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,

laugh'd 2 today: laughed

1. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
2. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,

laugher 1

1. p. 330, line 23The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,

laughest 1

1. p. 278, line 29Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions,

laughing 12

1. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
2. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
3. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
4. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
5. p. 132, line 16Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping,

laughing-gull 1

1. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,

laughingly 1

1. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.

laughs 2

1. p. 57, line 12Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh,
2. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.

laughter 15

1. p. 57, line 1At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
2. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
3. p. 87, line 22The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
4. p. 100, line 23Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,
5. p. 128, line 6Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,

launch 9

1. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
2. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
3. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
4. p. 296, line 8But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.
5. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,

launch'd 4 today: launched

1. p. 222, line 1Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
2. p. 276, line 9Not for the bards of the past, not to invoke them have I launch'd you forth,
3. p. 343, line 17It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
4. p. 359, line 21Launch'd o'er the prairies wide, across the lakes,

launches 1

1. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.

launchest 1

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

laurel 2

1. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
2. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,

laurel-cover'd 1

1. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,

laurel-tree 1

1. p. 360, line 8The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers,

lave 4

1. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
2. p. 321, line 17Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,
3. p. 366, line 14Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac!
4. p. 399, line 6I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,

laved 1

1. p. 260, line 29Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death.

laves 1

1. p. 314, line 22The Creation in billows of godhood laves me.

laving 4

1. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
2. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
3. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
4. p. 414, line 3Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing

lavish 4

1. p. 126, line 7You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
2. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,
3. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
4. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,

lavish'd 1 today: lavished

1. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,

law 34

1. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
2. p. 39, line 4I see in them and myself the same old law.
3. p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
4. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
5. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)

lawless 5

1. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
2. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
3. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
4. p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
5. p. 359, line 16Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,

lawlessly 1

1. p. 118, line 31You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!

Lawrence 4

1. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
2. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
3. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
4. p. 389, line 1Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,

laws 31

1. p. 9, line 7Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
2. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
3. p. 45, line 4I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
4. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
5. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,

lawyer 5

1. p. 42, line 21Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
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. 212, line 5Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.
4. p. 220, line 6The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
5. p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?

lawyers 4

1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
2. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
3. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
4. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,

lay 22

1. p. 32, line 19I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
2. p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
3. p. 55, line 17What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
4. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
5. p. 66, line 27Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,

layers 2

1. p. 41, line 8The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,
2. p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,

laying 3

1. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,
2. p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,
3. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,

lays 1

1. p. 311, line 14I hear the minnesingers singing their lays of love,

laziness 1

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

lead 21

1. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,
2. p. 52, line 9They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
3. p. 73, line 20I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
4. p. 73, line 21But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
5. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.

leadballs 1

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

leaden 1

1. p. 270, line 16I stand again in leaden rain your flapping folds saluting,

leaden-eyed 1

1. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

leader 2

1. p. 270, line 4For that, the bard walks in advance, leader of leaders,
2. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)

leaders 4

1. p. 270, line 4For that, the bard walks in advance, leader of leaders,
2. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
3. p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,
4. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)

leading 7

1. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
2. p. 120, line 25The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
3. p. 228, line 9So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!
4. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
5. p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,
6. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,
7. 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.)

leadings 1

1. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,

leads 3

1. p. 38, line 21The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
2. p. 248, line 16Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,)
3. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)

leaf 9

1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
2. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
3. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,
4. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
5. p. 109, line 6A LEAF for hand in hand;

leafy 2

1. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
2. p. 77, line 8I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.

leagues 2

1. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
2. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,

leaks 2

1. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
2. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.

lean 13

1. p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
2. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
3. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
4. p. 66, line 12To cotton-field drudge or cleaner of privies I lean,
5. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,

lean'd 4 today: leaned

1. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
2. p. 148, line 21To be lean'd and to lean on.
3. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
4. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,

leaning 5

1. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
2. 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,
3. p. 193, line 10Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,
4. p. 210, line 9Arms in slings—old men leaning on young men's shoulders.
5. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,

leans 5

1. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,
2. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
3. p. 154, line 18And leans on a ponderous axe.
4. p. 217, line 6He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
5. p. 237, line 17By the jamb of a door leans.

leap 6

1. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
2. p. 92, line 7To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
3. p. 145, line 16I leap in the lower'd boat, we row toward our prey where he lies,
4. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
5. p. 148, line 12To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
6. p. 265, line 9Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!

leaping 7

1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
2. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
3. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
4. p. 270, line 15(Angry cloth I saw there leaping!
5. p. 270, line 23Angry cloth I saw there leaping.)
6. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
7. p. 340, line 13Beyond the flames of hell, joyous, leaping easily above hell,

leaps 2

1. p. 155, line 7The axe leaps!
2. p. 379, line 19The ship is clear at last, she leaps!

leapt 1

1. p. 220, line 2Leapt they tumultuous, and lo! Manhattan arming.

Lear 1

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

learn 7

1. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
2. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
3. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
4. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
5. p. 241, line 13Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
6. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
7. p. 422, line 15May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,

learn'd 17 today: learned

learn'd 16 · learnt 1

1. p. 13, line 25Beyond thy lectures learn'd professor,
2. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
3. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
4. p. 169, line 19The learn'd, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
5. p. 214, line 13WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer,

learner 1

1. p. 42, line 17A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,

learners 1

1. p. 15, line 14We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.

learning 7

1. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
2. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
3. p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
4. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
5. p. 393, line 5Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
6. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
7. p. 415, line 20Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,

learns 2

1. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
2. p. 304, line 8WHO learns my lesson complete?

leash 1

1. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,

least 16

1. p. 14, line 27The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
2. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
3. p. 69, line 19My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
4. p. 71, line 2Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
5. p. 76, line 18I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,