Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
  3. p. 13, line 22Nor these the universes, they the universes,
  4. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  5. p. 22, line 18(Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion,
  6. p. 22, line 19Nor land nor man or woman without religion.)
  7. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  8. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  9. p. 25, line 7Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
  10. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  11. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
  12. p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
  13. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  14. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  15. p. 34, line 15I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth,
  16. p. 34, line 24Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
  17. p. 41, line 5(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you;)
  18. p. 49, line 25I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  19. p. 49, line 26Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  20. p. 53, line 11They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  21. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  22. p. 63, line 10He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
  23. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  24. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  25. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  26. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  27. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  28. p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
  29. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  30. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  31. p. 71, line 2Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
  32. p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  33. p. 84, line 19The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
  34. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  35. p. 97, line 11Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
  36. p. 98, line 5(For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
  37. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
  38. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  39. p. 98, line 25Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious,
  40. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  41. p. 100, line 27Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
  42. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  43. p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
  44. p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
  45. p. 105, line 8Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,
  46. p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
  47. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  48. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  49. p. 107, line 2But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
  50. p. 107, line 19Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house,
  51. p. 108, line 19Nor discovery have I made,
  52. p. 108, line 20Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library,
  53. p. 108, line 21Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America,
  54. p. 108, line 22Nor literary success nor intellect, nor book for the book-shelf,
  55. p. 121, line 15Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial,
  56. p. 130, line 7It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
  57. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  58. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  59. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  60. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
  61. p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
  62. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  63. p. 152, line 16Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest,
  64. p. 152, line 17Nor the place of the most numerous population.
  65. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  66. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  67. p. 164, line 27Without thee neither all nor each, nor land, home,
  68. p. 164, line 28Nor ship, nor mine, nor any here this day secure,
  69. p. 164, line 29Nor aught, nor any day secure.
  70. p. 166, line 28Nor yield we mournfully majestic brothers,
  71. p. 167, line 12Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter-house,
  72. p. 169, line 21Neither a servant nor a master I,
  73. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
  74. p. 176, line 18The earth neither lags nor hastens,
  75. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  76. p. 188, line 12Was not so sick from the blood in the gutters running, nor from the single corpses, nor those in heaps, nor those borne away in the tumbrils,
  77. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  78. p. 191, line 11Nor the comet that came unannounced out of the north flaring in heaven,
  79. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  80. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
  81. p. 197, line 34Nor return'd that afternoon, nor the next,
  82. p. 197, line 35Nor ever appear'd again.
  83. p. 201, line 21Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
  84. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  85. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  86. p. 222, line 22Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties,
  87. p. 224, line 16But I am not the sea nor the red sun,
  88. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  89. p. 226, line 8Nor market nor depot we, nor money-bank in the city,
  90. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  91. p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
  92. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  93. p. 227, line 24O banner, not money so precious are you, not farm produce you, nor the material good nutriment,
  94. p. 227, line 25Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
  95. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  96. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  97. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.
  98. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  99. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
  100. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  101. p. 249, line 21Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk,
  102. p. 249, line 22Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,
  103. p. 251, line 11Nor the bayonet stab what you really are;
  104. p. 251, line 14Nor the bayonet stab O friend.
  105. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  106. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  107. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  108. p. 257, line 4(Nor for you, for one alone,
  109. p. 263, line 8My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
  110. p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
  111. p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
  112. p. 274, line 27Not to justify science nor the march of equality,
  113. p. 274, line 28Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn belov'd of time.
  114. p. 279, line 14Nor the measur'd march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps,
  115. p. 279, line 15Nor the regiments hastily coming up deploying in line of battle;
  116. p. 280, line 7Nor do I forget you Departed,
  117. p. 280, line 8Nor in winter or summer my lost ones,
  118. p. 285, line 4Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me,
  119. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  120. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  121. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  122. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  123. p. 292, line 20Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.
  124. p. 292, line 23Nor hand of friend, nor loving face,
  125. p. 292, line 24Nor favor comes, nor word of grace.
  126. p. 293, line 3Convict no more, nor shame, nor dole!
  127. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
  128. p. 294, line 26Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.
  129. p. 296, line 3Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
  130. p. 296, line 7You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone,
  131. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  132. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
  133. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  134. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  135. p. 305, line 2Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  136. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  137. p. 306, line 6Nor helm nor helmsman.
  138. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
  139. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
  140. p. 315, line 11Nor vocalism of sun-bright Italy,
  141. p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,
  142. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
  143. p. 315, line 14Nor flutes, nor harps, nor the bugle-calls of camps,
  144. p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
  145. p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
  146. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
  147. p. 329, line 25But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  148. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  149. p. 336, line 25I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
  150. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?
  151. p. 338, line 4No map there, nor guide,
  152. p. 338, line 5Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
  153. p. 338, line 6Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.
  154. p. 338, line 8Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,
  155. p. 338, line 12Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.
  156. p. 339, line 24But my charity has no death—my wisdom dies not, neither early nor late,
  157. p. 340, line 10Nor time nor change shall ever change me or my words.
  158. p. 347, line 15Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
  159. p. 347, line 16Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor library;
  160. p. 350, line 4(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor in thy century's visible growth,
  161. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  162. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,
  163. p. 362, line 12Nor lore nor fame, nor happiness nor wealth,
  164. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,
  165. p. 362, line 19Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd,
  166. p. 365, line 13(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,
  167. p. 366, line 1Nor think we forget thee maternal;
  168. p. 372, line 4Nor you drummers, neither at reveillé at dawn,
  169. p. 372, line 5Nor the long roll alarming the camp, nor even the muffled beat for a burial,
  170. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
  171. p. 378, line 18But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the countersign,
  172. p. 378, line 19Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
  173. p. 388, line 19Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war;
  174. p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
  175. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
  176. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
  177. p. 391, line 15Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:
  178. p. 393, line 6(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
  179. p. 396, line 3Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
  180. p. 396, line 4Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
  181. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  182. p. 397, line 11Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
  183. p. 399, line 25(Nor for the past alone—for meanings to the future,)
  184. p. 407, line 7[…] touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for […]
  185. p. 408, line 15[…] for the fact of it in the past, nor refrain from dwelling, even vaunting here at the end) that […]
  186. p. 410, line 4My single soul—aims, confirmations, failures, joys—Nor single soul alone,
  187. p. 411, line 11It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.
  188. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
  189. p. 426, line 6[…] bid neither for soft eulogies, big money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or […]
  190. p. 427, line 24[…] beauty's sake—no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and […]
  191. p. 427, line 25[…] no legend, or myth, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its identities […]
  192. p. 428, line 25[…] any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature […]
  193. p. 428, line 29[…] ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but […]
  194. p. 428, line 33[…] not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary […]
  195. p. 429, line 37[…] than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute […]
  196. p. 431, line 21[…] religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back […]
  197. p. 434, line 40[…] the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but […]