Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “many”

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  1. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  2. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  3. p. 11, line 20Thou orb of many orbs!
  4. p. 18, line 16After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
  5. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  6. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  7. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  8. p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
  9. p. 33, line 23O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
  10. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  11. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  12. p. 48, line 16Through me many long dumb voices,
  13. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  14. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  15. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  16. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  17. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  18. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  19. p. 96, line 15O I do not know whether many passing by will discover you or inhale your faint odor, but I believe a few will;
  20. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  21. p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
  22. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  23. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  24. p. 118, line 3I see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
  25. p. 126, line 15Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
  26. p. 126, line 16Habituès of many distant countries, habituès of far-distant dwellings,
  27. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  28. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  29. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  30. p. 130, line 14I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old,
  31. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  32. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
  33. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  34. p. 161, line 20The male and female many laboring not,
  35. p. 161, line 21Shall ever here confront the laboring many,
  36. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,
  37. p. 165, line 10Many a good man have I seen go under.
  38. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  39. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  40. p. 171, line 11You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
  41. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  42. p. 204, line 3Buoy'd hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
  43. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  44. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  45. p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,
  46. p. 211, line 17O many a sicken'd heart!
  47. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
  48. p. 218, line 5Death, many deaths I'll sing.
  49. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  50. p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
  51. p. 234, line 16Many no doubt thought of capitulation.
  52. p. 235, line 5Baptized that day in many a young man's bloody wounds,
  53. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
  54. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  55. p. 242, line 12(Both I remember well—many the hardships, few the joys, yet I was content.)
  56. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  57. p. 244, line 3Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
  58. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  59. p. 250, line 12Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,
  60. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  61. p. 254, line 4Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled,
  62. p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
  63. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  64. p. 261, line 1The night in silence under many a star,
  65. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  66. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  67. p. 273, line 13(Upon this breast has many a dying soldier lean'd to breathe his last,
  68. p. 273, line 15To life recalling many a prostrate form;)
  69. p. 277, line 3Or many a herb-lined brook's reticulations,
  70. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  71. p. 277, line 30Infinitesimals out of my life, and many a life,
  72. p. 280, line 19Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty march,
  73. p. 280, line 20Inured on many a hard-fought bloody field.
  74. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  75. p. 282, line 20Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
  76. p. 285, line 26Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
  77. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,
  78. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  79. p. 293, line 18A wondrous minute then—but after in the solitary night, to many, many there,
  80. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  81. p. 298, line 5Do not mind because many sounding your name do not understand you,
  82. p. 306, line 18In that amid thy many faults thou ever aimedst highly,
  83. p. 310, line 9With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
  84. p. 314, line 1I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,
  85. p. 317, line 22Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead,
  86. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
  87. p. 321, line 8With laugh and many a kiss,
  88. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  89. p. 329, line 23All the week she thought of her, she watch'd for her many a month,
  90. p. 329, line 24She remember'd her many a winter and many a summer,
  91. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
  92. p. 340, line 6Morose, full of guile, full of reminiscences, brooding, with many wiles,
  93. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,
  94. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  95. p. 353, line 8The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
  96. p. 355, line 18The old face of the mother of many children,
  97. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  98. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!
  99. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  100. p. 367, line 12After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color,
  101. p. 367, line 15IN midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
  102. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
  103. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  104. p. 379, line 4Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,
  105. p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;
  106. p. 380, line 21And the songs of birth, and shown that there are many births.
  107. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
  108. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  109. p. 390, line 3With many a half-caught voice sent up from the eddies,
  110. p. 390, line 4Many a muffled confession—many a sob and whisper'd word,
  111. p. 390, line 25Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.
  112. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  113. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;
  114. p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
  115. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
  116. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,
  117. p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,
  118. p. 403, line 13"Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,
  119. p. 407, line 2From many limpid distillations and past showers;
  120. p. 408, line 7[…] fun here—for one reason there are too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another […]
  121. p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,
  122. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,
  123. p. 414, line 22(Of many debts incalculable,
  124. p. 415, line 25Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain
  125. p. 415, line 28Children's and women's tones—rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,
  126. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
  127. p. 419, line 3May-be at many and many-a-more removes—yet Allah, Allah, Allah is there.
  128. p. 425, line 13[…] the journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein […]
  129. p. 433, line 21[…] very spacious—has room for all—has so many mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose by the […]
  130. p. 433, line 34[…] body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed […]