Concordance

ma 3

1. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
2. p. 99, line 10For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!
3. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.

machine 1

1. p. 108, line 18NO labor-saving machine,

machinery 7

1. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
2. p. 141, line 10Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties,
3. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
4. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
5. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
6. p. 268, line 1Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the Northeast, Northwest, Southwest,
7. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,

machines 5

1. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
2. p. 281, line 29The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines,
3. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
4. p. 316, line 34The gigantic dredging machines.
5. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,

machinist 1

1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,

machinists 1

1. p. 316, line 25You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,

mackerel-taking 1

1. p. 144, line 10Another time mackerel-taking,

mad 11

1. p. 29, line 25I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
2. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
3. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
4. p. 80, line 10Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land, I them chanting,
5. p. 84, line 1Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,

Madagascar 2

1. p. 114, line 10I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar,
2. p. 119, line 12You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!

madden'd 1 today: maddened

1. p. 306, line 5And 'mid its teeming madden'd half-drown'd crowds,

maddening 1

1. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,

maddens 1

1. p. 143, line 9The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure.

made 30

1. p. 17, line 17(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
2. p. 17, line 21Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
3. p. 35, line 18Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips,
4. p. 47, line 22This is the lexicographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
5. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,

madly 2

1. p. 198, line 30O madly the sea pushes upon the land,
2. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)

madly-whistled 1

1. p. 359, line 17Thy madly-whistled laughter, echoing, rumbling like an earthquake, rousing all,

madness 7

1. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
2. p. 80, line 17The mystic deliria, the madness amorous, the utter abandonment,
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. 151, line 21Roar, flames, blood, drunkenness, madness,
6. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,
7. p. 285, line 12Dead house of love—house of madness and sin, crumbled, crush'd,

Madras 1

1. p. 120, line 3You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!

Madrid 1

1. p. 117, line 16I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

mad-sweet 1

1. p. 51, line 17It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.

maestros 1

1. p. 314, line 13Composers! mighty maestros!

magazine 1

1. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,

magazines 1

1. p. 427, line 38[…] on Wordsworth, in one of the current English magazines, the lines, "A few weeks ago an eminent French critic […]

maggot 1

1. p. 353, line 19Some milk-nosed maggot blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.

maggots 3

1. p. 268, line 16An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.)
2. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
3. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,

magic 1

1. p. 161, line 3Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic,

magnet 1

1. p. 302, line 15O the magnet! the flesh over and over!

magnetic 4

1. p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
2. p. 46, line 1Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
3. p. 99, line 3I will make divine magnetic lands,
4. p. 147, line 30It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws.

magnetism 1

1. p. 213, line 10No brain, no heart left, no magnetism of sex;

magnetize 1

1. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?

magnet-south 1

1. p. 359, line 23O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening perfumed South! my South!

magnificent 2

1. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
2. p. 266, line 12Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars,

magnifying 1

1. p. 67, line 4Magnifying and applying come I,

magnitude 1

1. p. 429, line 23[…] a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible […]

magnolia 1

1. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,

maid 1

1. p. 34, line 21For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,

maidens 2

1. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
2. p. 242, line 6O maidens and young men I love and that love me,

mail 2

1. p. 384, line 61[…] A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me, 402 Not […]
2. p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.

mail'd 1 today: mailed

1. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?

mails 1

1. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.

maim'd 2 today: maimed

1. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
2. p. 279, line 26O my land's maim'd darlings, with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutch,

main 14

1. p. 18, line 9Expecting the main things from you.
2. p. 25, line 15Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the main concern,
3. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;
4. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
5. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

Maine 8

1. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
2. p. 42, line 14At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch,
3. p. 164, line 2Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen,
4. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
5. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
6. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
7. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,
8. p. 436, line 11[…] valley of the Mississippi, in Canada, up in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]

mainest 1

1. p. 419, line 16(Take here the mainest lesson—less from books—less from the schools,)

mainly 6

1. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
2. p. 408, line 27[…] carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America of the future—will this vast […]
3. p. 436, line 5[…] of the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my […]
4. p. 437, line 40As the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow […]
5. p. 438, line 9[…] Grass" indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal […]
6. p. 438, line 18[…] or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

main-mast 1

1. p. 63, line 2One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,

main-sail 1

1. p. 409, line 2Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth,

mainsails 1

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

main-sledge 1

1. p. 37, line 22Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in the fire.

maintain 2

1. p. 13, line 34Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
2. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,

maintain'd 1 today: maintained

1. p. 366, line 28The ancient banner perfectly maintain'd,

main-top 1

1. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,

maize 4

1. p. 146, line 19To plough land in the spring for maize,
2. p. 149, line 1Welcome are lands of wheat and maize, welcome those of the grape,
3. p. 174, line 17Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees,
4. p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,

maize-leaf 1

1. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,

maize-stalk 2

1. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
2. p. 286, line 17Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk, the lilacs bloom in the dooryards,

majestic 12

1. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
2. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
3. p. 166, line 28Nor yield we mournfully majestic brothers,
4. p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
5. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,

majesties 1

1. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.

majesty 4

1. p. 124, line 3The past, the future, majesty, love—if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
2. p. 145, line 27My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.
3. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
4. p. 435, line 29[…] all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the […]

majorities 1

1. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,

majority 1

1. p. 181, line 26Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states,

make 85

1. p. 14, line 17To make himself by them the law unto himself.
2. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
3. p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
4. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
5. p. 21, line 8And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,

maker 6

1. p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
2. p. 137, line 4The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
3. p. 137, line 8The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems, the Answerer,
4. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
5. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.
6. p. 151, line 7The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,

makers 2

1. p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
2. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,

makes 13

1. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
2. p. 23, line 6But there is something else very great, it makes the whole coincide,
3. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
4. p. 81, line 3From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
5. p. 106, line 5Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;

makest 1

1. p. 357, line 1What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,

making 20

1. p. 9, line 19The making of perfect soldiers.
2. p. 40, line 21The child is baptized, the convert is making his first professions,
3. p. 52, line 13Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
4. p. 61, line 3Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
5. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

makings 1

1. p. 85, line 22In it and below it the makings of heroes.

Malaysia 2

1. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
2. p. 195, line 8From the southern peninsulas and the demi-continental islands, from Malaysia,

male 17

1. p. 9, line 5The Female equally with the Male I sing.
2. p. 20, line 27Here lands female and male,
3. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
4. p. 26, line 1Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
5. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,

males 1

1. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,

malform'd 1 today: malformed

1. p. 39, line 29The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,

malignant 2

1. p. 132, line 8Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant,
2. p. 419, line 22The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant,

mallet 3

1. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
2. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
3. 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,

mallets 1

1. p. 150, line 8The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curv'd limbs,

malt 1

1. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,

manage 1

1. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,

man-balls 1

1. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,

Manchester 1

1. p. 117, line 15I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,

mandarin 1

1. p. 195, line 3Mandarin, farmer, merchant, mechanic, and fisherman,

manfully 1

1. p. 291, line 1All that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no,

mangled 1

1. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,

Manhattan 26

1. p. 48, line 5Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
2. p. 56, line 24Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
3. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
4. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
5. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,

Manhattanese 2

1. p. 105, line 17Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,
2. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?

Manhattan's 2

1. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
2. p. 289, line 19MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd pondering,

manhood 9

1. p. 72, line 13O manhood, balanced, florid and full.
2. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
3. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
4. p. 126, line 26Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
5. p. 142, line 11Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!

manhood's 1

1. p. 323, line 28Thou knowest my manhood's solemn and visionary meditations,

mania 1

1. p. 54, line 25Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

maniacs 1

1. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,

manifold 7

1. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
2. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
3. p. 160, line 21Its manifold ensemble.
4. p. 163, line 19With all thy wide geographies, manifold, different, distant,
5. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
6. p. 318, line 10Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
7. p. 412, line 11For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?

manikins 1

1. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,

Manito 1

1. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,

mankind 5

1. p. 71, line 13Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
2. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
3. p. 268, line 20O America because you build for mankind I build for you,
4. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
5. p. 311, line 11The dirge and desolation of mankind.)

manliness 1

1. p. 434, line 41[…] but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession […]

manly 18

1. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
2. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
3. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
4. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
5. p. 99, line 9By the manly love of comrades.

Mannahatta 13

1. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
2. p. 18, line 17Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas,
3. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
4. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
5. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;

Mannahatta's 2

1. p. 138, line 20Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering,
2. p. 402, line 20So I aloft from Mannahatta's ship-fringed shore,

manner 2

1. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
2. p. 105, line 16My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;

manners 9

1. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
2. p. 159, line 26But hold—don't I forget my manners?
3. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
4. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
5. p. 271, line 22Does it answer universal needs? will it improve manners?

manoeuvr'd 1 today: manoeuvred

1. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,

manœuvre 1

1. p. 253, line 22The hot contention of opposing fronts, the long manœuvre,

Manrico's 1

1. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,

man-root 1

1. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,

man's 32

1. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
2. p. 25, line 12Of your real body and any man's or woman's real body,
3. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
4. p. 51, line 15I hear the violoncello, ('tis the young man's heart's complaint,)
5. p. 59, line 14They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.

mansion 1

1. p. 213, line 21Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion,

mansions 1

1. p. 433, line 21[…] spacious—has room for all—has so many mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose by the idea […]

mantle 1

1. p. 275, line 12Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)

manual 1

1. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,

manufactures 2

1. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
2. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?

manufacturing 1

1. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?

manure 1

1. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,

manuscript 1

1. p. 39, line 28He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;

many-a-more 1

1. p. 419, line 3May-be at many and many-a-more removes—yet Allah, Allah, Allah is there.

many-cylinder'd 1

1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,

many-moving 1

1. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,

many-vein'd 1

1. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,

map 3

1. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
2. p. 320, line 2Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd,
3. p. 338, line 4No map there, nor guide,

maple 3

1. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
2. p. 100, line 7And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut,
3. p. 294, line 5The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,

maps 1

1. p. 172, line 6Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?

mar 1

1. p. 280, line 4Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature,

marauder 1

1. p. 52, line 28They have left me helpless to a red marauder,

marble 3

1. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
2. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
3. p. 393, line 12Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:

march 31

1. p. 11, line 17These chants for thee, the eternal march of thee.
2. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
3. p. 75, line 24The soldier camp'd or upon the march is mine,
4. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
5. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.

march'd 4 today: marched

1. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
2. p. 233, line 3Of that brigade I tell, and how steadily it march'd,
3. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
4. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.

marches 12

1. p. 20, line 1Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian!
2. p. 20, line 2Foremost! century marches! Libertad! masses!
3. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
4. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
5. p. 264, line 5And strike up the marches of Libertad, marches more powerful yet,

marching 15

1. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
2. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
3. p. 210, line 2Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.
4. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
5. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?

Marco 1

1. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,

mare 3

1. p. 38, line 20And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
2. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
3. p. 286, line 15The new-born of animals appear, the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,

mares 2

1. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!
2. 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,

marge 1

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

margin 1

1. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.

margins 1

1. p. 95, line 18In the growth by margins of pond-waters,

marine 4

1. p. 10, line 8Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
2. p. 160, line 26Bronze, lilac, robin's-egg, marine and crimson,
3. p. 267, line 23The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,
4. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,

mariner 1

1. p. 323, line 7For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,

mariners 5

1. p. 10, line 25Bear forth to them folded my love, (dear mariners, for you I fold it here in every leaf;)
2. p. 10, line 28This song for mariners and all their ships.
3. p. 47, line 23These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas,
4. p. 114, line 19I behold the mariners of the world,
5. p. 318, line 2Again the knowledge gain'd, the mariner's compass,

maritime 1

1. p. 192, line 1With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,

mark 20

1. p. 44, line 11All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
2. p. 77, line 5And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
3. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.
4. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
5. p. 158, line 23I mark her step divine, her curious eyes a-turning, rolling,

mark'd 6 today: marked

1. p. 228, line 21I mark'd the white combs where they career'd so high, curling over,
2. p. 240, line 18I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
3. p. 343, line 15I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
4. p. 343, line 16Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
5. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,
6. p. 425, line 33[…] and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a […]

market 3

1. p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
2. p. 226, line 8Nor market nor depot we, nor money-bank in the city,
3. p. 407, line 11[…] silently retire?—(indeed amid no loud call or market for my sort of poetic utterance […]

market-man 1

1. p. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,

market-places 1

1. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,

markets 4

1. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
2. p. 156, line 2Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,
3. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
4. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,

marking 2

1. p. 317, line 14Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,
2. p. 413, line 34[…] will bear for ages in her firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying […]

marks 1

1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,

marksman 1

1. p. 40, line 6Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;

marksmen 1

1. p. 60, line 4Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,

maroon 1

1. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,

maroon-tint 1

1. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,

marriage 7

1. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
2. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
3. p. 288, line 20What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
4. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
5. p. 295, line 25Marriage, the street, the factory, farm, the house-room, lodging-room,
6. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
7. p. 319, line 12Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!

marriage-march 1

1. p. 311, line 2The duet of the bridegroom and the bride, a marriage-march,

married 4

1. p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
2. p. 112, line 15Who are the girls? who are the married women?
3. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
4. p. 395, line 3(Had been a sailor all his life—was nearly 90—lived with his married grandchild, Jenny;

marrow 1

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

marry 1

1. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,

Mars 1

1. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,

Marseilles 1

1. p. 115, line 7Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen,

marsh 2

1. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
2. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,

marshal 3

1. p. 209, line 21Way for the President's marshal—way for the government cannon!
2. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
3. p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,

martial 2

1. p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
2. p. 313, line 19I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the martial clang of cymbals,

marts 1

1. p. 372, line 7But aside from these and the marts of wealth and the crowded promenade,

martyrdoms 1

1. p. 363, line 7How all heroic martyrdoms to it!

martyrs 9

1. p. 12, line 23Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils,
2. p. 20, line 19Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
3. p. 59, line 26The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
4. p. 154, line 21I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,
5. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,

marvel 2

1. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
2. p. 308, line 24This common marvel I beheld—the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young,

marvellous 2 today: marvelous

marvellous 1 · marvelous 1

1. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
2. p. 385, line 2Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,

Maryland 3

1. p. 27, line 2Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
2. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
3. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,

masculine 7

1. p. 49, line 9Firm masculine colter it shall be you!
2. p. 53, line 9Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.
3. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
4. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
5. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
6. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
7. p. 221, line 19Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,

mash 1

1. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,

mash'd 1 today: mashed

1. p. 60, line 12I am the mash'd fireman with breast-bone broken,

mask 5

1. p. 97, line 15That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
2. p. 217, line 14A MASK, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
3. p. 251, line 9I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul,
4. p. 296, line 9OUT from behind this bending rough-cut mask,
5. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,

mask'd 1 today: masked

1. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,

masks 3

1. p. 181, line 22Forth from their masks, no matter what,
2. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,

mason 1

1. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,

masonries 1

1. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.

masons 2

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 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,

mass 5

1. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
2. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
3. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
4. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
5. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Massachusetts 2

1. p. 26, line 11Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut!
2. p. 247, line 9One from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian's comrade,

massacred 1

1. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,

masses 16

1. p. 19, line 19Countless masses debouch upon them,
2. p. 20, line 2Foremost! century marches! Libertad! masses!
3. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
4. p. 165, line 7And moving masses as wild demons surging, and lives as nothing risk'd,
5. p. 206, line 1While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,

massive 2

1. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
2. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,

mast 1

1. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,

master 17

1. p. 16, line 7Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
2. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
3. p. 80, line 28From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
4. p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
5. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,

master-at-arms 1

1. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.

master'd 2 today: mastered

1. p. 275, line 1I am for those that have never been master'd,
2. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,

masterest 1

1. p. 322, line 1And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,

masterful 4

1. p. 226, line 15We, even we, henceforth flaunt out masterful, high up above,
2. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
3. p. 412, line 2Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us:
4. p. 415, line 10Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee,

mastering 2

1. p. 65, line 12Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
2. p. 259, line 12Yet the lilac with mastering odor holds me.

masterpieces 1

1. p. 433, line 6[…] ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it happen'd, I read the latter […]

masters 11

1. p. 20, line 14I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
2. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
3. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
4. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
5. p. 185, line 3All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,

mastership 1

1. p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!

master-tongue 1

1. p. 167, line 10Joining with master-tongue bore part.

mastery's 1

1. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,

mast-head 1

1. p. 145, line 14I hear the cry again sent down from the mast-head, There—she blows!

mast-hemm'd 1

1. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?

mastless 1

1. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,

mastodon 1

1. p. 54, line 12In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,

masts 7

1. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
2. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
3. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
4. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
5. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
6. p. 361, line 7The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd,
7. p. 361, line 16City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!

matador 1

1. p. 118, line 30You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!

match 3

1. p. 91, line 6The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,
2. p. 205, line 7Thou born to match the gale, (thou art all wings,)
3. p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,

matches 1

1. p. 291, line 19Matches every thought or act by its correlative,

matchless 2

1. p. 61, line 18Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
2. p. 427, line 10[…] identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and […]

mate 15

1. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
2. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
3. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
4. p. 188, line 18O Liberty! O mate for me!
5. p. 197, line 32May-be kill'd, unknown to her mate,