Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  2. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  3. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  4. p. 26, line 22Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
  5. p. 27, line 5Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every new brother,
  6. p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
  7. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  8. p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
  9. p. 28, line 5New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
  10. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
  11. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  12. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  13. p. 55, line 25Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  14. p. 57, line 23Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with the new and old,
  15. p. 65, line 20They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
  16. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  17. p. 91, line 24To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!
  18. p. 92, line 29Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,
  19. p. 98, line 10With the comrade's long-dwelling kiss or the new husband's kiss,
  20. p. 98, line 11For I am the new husband and I am the comrade.
  21. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  22. p. 103, line 12ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
  23. p. 109, line 20I dream'd that was the new city of Friends,
  24. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  25. p. 126, line 4I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
  26. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  27. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  28. p. 141, line 4The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,
  29. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  30. p. 149, line 19The disembarkation, the founding of a new city,
  31. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  32. p. 158, line 6These also are the lessons of our New World;
  33. p. 158, line 7While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
  34. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  35. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  36. p. 167, line 16To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
  37. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  38. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,
  39. p. 169, line 5The new society at last, proportionate to Nature,
  40. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  41. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  42. p. 192, line 4With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
  43. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  44. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
  45. p. 223, line 9O A new song, a free song,
  46. p. 225, line 20I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
  47. p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
  48. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
  49. p. 241, line 15AN old man bending I come among new faces,
  50. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  51. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,
  52. p. 268, line 7I mark the new aureola around your head,
  53. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
  54. p. 276, line 23Let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,
  55. p. 277, line 16Currents for starting a continent new,
  56. p. 277, line 29Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable,
  57. p. 284, line 23And now with rosy and new blood,
  58. p. 284, line 24Moves to-day in a new country.
  59. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  60. p. 301, line 14Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
  61. p. 311, line 30A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,
  62. p. 313, line 17I see religious dances old and new,
  63. p. 314, line 15To you a new bard caroling in the West,
  64. p. 315, line 15But to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
  65. p. 315, line 23The New by its mighty railroad spann'd,
  66. p. 316, line 23A worship new I sing,
  67. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  68. p. 325, line 11And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.
  69. p. 326, line 12Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
  70. p. 326, line 19I am the ever-laughing—it is new moon and twilight,
  71. p. 339, line 2Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine,
  72. p. 339, line 8Aged beyond computation, yet ever new, ever with those mighty laws rolling,
  73. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  74. p. 348, line 1Brain of the New World, what a task is thine,
  75. p. 348, line 25Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes,
  76. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  77. p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
  78. p. 364, line 19Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
  79. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,
  80. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
  81. p. 374, line 7Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads,
  82. p. 374, line 26Illustrious the passing light—illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky,
  83. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,
  84. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,
  85. p. 396, line 25Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages old or new;
  86. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  87. p. 398, line 8Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
  88. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)
  89. p. 418, line 5(Faithful to them found or unfound, forgetting not, bearing the past, here new musing,)
  90. p. 425, line 27[…] carte visite to the coming generations of the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I […]
  91. p. 427, line 41[…] the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which […]
  92. p. 428, line 17[…] line, the whole civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
  93. p. 428, line 18[…] and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
  94. p. 430, line 5[…] to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent of […]
  95. p. 430, line 9[…] the past, but the born child of the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of […]
  96. p. 430, line 21[…] view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such […]
  97. p. 430, line 41[…] a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the best song indispensable […]
  98. p. 431, line 1[…] The New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with […]
  99. p. 431, line 8[…] any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or New, are from them—and though if I were ask'd to […]
  100. p. 432, line 12[…] and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the poems of realities and science and of […]
  101. p. 432, line 17[…] everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  102. p. 433, line 1[…] influences, I went over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than […]
  103. p. 433, line 41[…] sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me […]
  104. p. 435, line 34[…] appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing the way for […]