Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “like”

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  1. p. 9, line 14As to me directing like flame its eyes,
  2. p. 13, line 19The separate countless free identities, like eyesight,
  3. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  4. p. 32, line 18Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice.
  5. p. 37, line 6Which of the young men does she like the best?
  6. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  7. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  8. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
  9. p. 55, line 3Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
  10. p. 56, line 20Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,
  11. p. 56, line 25Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,
  12. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  13. p. 59, line 24All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine,
  14. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  15. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  16. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  17. p. 65, line 26Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  18. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  19. p. 72, line 1Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen,
  20. p. 83, line 7He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
  21. p. 83, line 11I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
  22. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  23. p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
  24. p. 89, line 29The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
  25. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  26. p. 90, line 21The like of the same I feel, the like of the same in others,
  27. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  28. p. 110, line 19Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins,
  29. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  30. p. 122, line 20I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me,
  31. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,
  32. p. 132, line 18The same old role, the role that is what we make it, as great as we like,
  33. p. 132, line 19Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
  34. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  35. p. 142, line 16O the joy of my spirit—it is uncaged—it darts like lightning!
  36. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  37. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  38. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;
  39. p. 164, line 9Like a tumult of laughter.
  40. p. 169, line 20A man like me and never the usual terms.
  41. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  42. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  43. p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
  44. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  45. p. 177, line 28Sits she whom I too love like the rest, sits undisturb'd,
  46. p. 181, line 14For it has history gather'd like husks around the globe,
  47. p. 182, line 25Love like the light silently wrapping all,
  48. p. 187, line 20As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you,
  49. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  50. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)
  51. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  52. p. 208, line 4Fitful, like a surge.
  53. p. 211, line 13Like lightning it le'pt forth half startled at itself,
  54. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  55. p. 214, line 21ONLY themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
  56. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  57. p. 222, line 5Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
  58. p. 222, line 25FROM Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
  59. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  60. p. 226, line 18O my father I like not the houses,
  61. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  62. p. 226, line 20But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
  63. p. 227, line 14Croaking like crows here in the wind.
  64. p. 228, line 7O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
  65. p. 230, line 2One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me,
  66. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  67. p. 236, line 12Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
  68. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,
  69. p. 247, line 24(Old as he was, his gray eyes yet shone out in battle like stars,)
  70. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  71. p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
  72. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  73. p. 263, line 21Charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky.
  74. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,
  75. p. 265, line 7Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like,
  76. p. 270, line 1He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
  77. 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?
  78. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  79. p. 278, line 30A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne,
  80. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  81. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  82. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  83. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  84. p. 294, line 13O if one could but fly like a bird!
  85. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;
  86. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  87. p. 304, line 4OTHERS may praise what they like;
  88. p. 306, line 3Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long,
  89. p. 308, line 7Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
  90. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  91. p. 317, line 24Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach'd sky.
  92. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  93. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  94. p. 322, line 18O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?
  95. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  96. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  97. p. 348, line 8Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,
  98. p. 348, line 26Like a limitless golden cloud filling the western sky,
  99. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  100. p. 356, line 9Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,
  101. p. 356, line 21A holy calm descends like dew upon me,
  102. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,
  103. p. 359, line 17Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all,
  104. p. 365, line 11Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave in,
  105. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  106. p. 370, line 23Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God,
  107. p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
  108. p. 382, line 13Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
  109. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  110. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  111. p. 391, line 7Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean.
  112. p. 392, line 13Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain'd and chafing in those breakers,
  113. p. 393, line 11Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.
  114. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  115. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  116. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)
  117. p. 402, line 11And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.
  118. p. 402, line 17Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,
  119. p. 407, line 25However that may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two […]
  120. p. 407, line 34[…] successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no […]
  121. p. 408, line 10[…] of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a kid or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment […]
  122. p. 411, line 38[…] badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and […]
  123. p. 418, line 8War, death, cataclysm like this, America,
  124. p. 419, line 19The democratic wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
  125. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
  126. p. 421, line 22Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping;
  127. p. 428, line 26[…] Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we […]
  128. p. 433, line 17[…] saw that beyond their limited range of melody (like perpetual chimes of music bells, ringing from lower b flat […]
  129. p. 436, line 26[…] it is altogether in its relations, bearings, significance—like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy the lines […]
  130. p. 438, line 35[…] young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result of a national […]