Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
  2. p. 12, line 33The present now and here,
  3. p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
  4. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
  5. p. 20, line 21Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
  6. p. 21, line 3The satisfier, after due long-waiting now advancing,
  7. p. 23, line 16Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of,
  8. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,
  9. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
  10. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  11. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  12. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  13. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  14. p. 29, line 13I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
  15. p. 30, line 20There was never any more inception than there is now,
  16. p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
  17. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  18. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  19. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  20. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  21. p. 45, line 11I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
  22. p. 47, line 9There is no better than it and now.
  23. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  24. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,
  25. p. 51, line 1Now I will do nothing but listen,
  26. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  27. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  28. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  29. p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
  30. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
  31. p. 62, line 25Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,
  32. p. 65, line 1I remember now,
  33. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  34. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
  35. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.
  36. p. 72, line 11Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
  37. p. 73, line 6We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  38. p. 74, line 15Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
  39. p. 74, line 18Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  40. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  41. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  42. p. 88, line 5O I say now these are the soul!
  43. p. 88, line 16Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
  44. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  45. p. 89, line 19I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
  46. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  47. p. 92, line 17Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe,
  48. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
  49. p. 93, line 3We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,
  50. p. 93, line 22Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
  51. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  52. p. 94, line 2Give me now libidinous joys only,
  53. p. 94, line 14Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,
  54. p. 95, line 9Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
  55. p. 95, line 22Clear to me now standards not yet publish'd, clear to me that my soul,
  56. p. 96, line 25Indeed O death, I think now these leaves mean precisely the same as you mean,
  57. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
  58. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  59. p. 97, line 12For now it is convey'd to me that you are the purports essential,
  60. p. 97, line 20WHOEVER you are holding me now in hand,
  61. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  62. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
  63. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  64. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  65. p. 100, line 3And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
  66. p. 101, line 17AND now gentlemen,
  67. p. 109, line 14I now suspect that is not all;
  68. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  69. p. 110, line 15But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
  70. p. 111, line 22FULL of life now, compact, visible,
  71. p. 112, line 4Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
  72. p. 112, line 6Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)
  73. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,
  74. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  75. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  76. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  77. p. 123, line 14Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
  78. p. 123, line 26Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
  79. p. 124, line 23Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
  80. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  81. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  82. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  83. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  84. p. 134, line 1Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are,
  85. p. 134, line 14NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
  86. p. 153, line 20What is your money-making now? what can it do now?
  87. p. 153, line 21What is your respectability now?
  88. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?
  89. p. 153, line 23Where are your jibes of being now?
  90. p. 153, line 24Where are your cavils about the soul now?
  91. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  92. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  93. p. 160, line 16We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
  94. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  95. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  96. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  97. p. 171, line 6There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
  98. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  99. p. 186, line 14Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
  100. p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
  101. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,
  102. p. 196, line 6Bend your proud neck to the long-off mother now sending messages over the archipelagoes to you,
  103. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  104. p. 196, line 12They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake Libertad.
  105. p. 197, line 5From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
  106. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  107. p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
  108. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  109. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
  110. p. 200, line 31Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,
  111. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  112. p. 204, line 30Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
  113. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  114. p. 211, line 3Now call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
  115. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  116. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  117. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  118. p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
  119. p. 221, line 12But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
  120. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  121. p. 224, line 26O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
  122. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
  123. p. 226, line 6We may be terror and carnage, and are so now,
  124. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  125. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  126. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  127. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  128. p. 230, line 8But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,
  129. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
  130. p. 231, line 13In peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine,
  131. p. 231, line 25Why what comes over you now old man?
  132. p. 232, line 3As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,
  133. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  134. p. 233, line 1I tell not now the whole of the battle,
  135. p. 234, line 22I myself as connecter, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
  136. p. 235, line 17I SEE before me now a traveling army halting,
  137. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  138. p. 237, line 4But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter's call,
  139. p. 237, line 14Ah now the single figure to me,
  140. p. 239, line 6'Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital,
  141. p. 242, line 2Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth,
  142. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  143. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  144. p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
  145. p. 246, line 21Now nearer blow the bugles,
  146. p. 247, line 25His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his works,
  147. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  148. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  149. p. 250, line 10Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
  150. p. 252, line 12Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand—nor am I now;
  151. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,
  152. p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
  153. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  154. p. 257, line 9But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,
  155. p. 257, line 14Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walk'd,
  156. p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
  157. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,
  158. p. 270, line 21Now the corpses tumble curl'd upon the ground,
  159. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
  160. p. 273, line 26I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,
  161. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,
  162. p. 278, line 5Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
  163. p. 279, line 13But now I sing not war,
  164. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  165. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  166. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
  167. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  168. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,
  169. p. 284, line 23And now with rosy and new blood,
  170. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
  171. p. 287, line 1Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
  172. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  173. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  174. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
  175. p. 291, line 14Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
  176. p. 293, line 24WARBLE me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,)
  177. p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
  178. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  179. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  180. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,
  181. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  182. p. 308, line 3Now only do I know you,
  183. p. 311, line 6Now loud approaching drums,
  184. p. 311, line 12Now airs antique and mediæval fill me,
  185. p. 311, line 16Now the great organ sounds,
  186. p. 311, line 32The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
  187. p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)
  188. p. 314, line 7Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me,
  189. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
  190. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  191. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  192. p. 318, line 25Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
  193. p. 319, line 13(No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)
  194. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  195. p. 326, line 12Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
  196. p. 328, line 21Now of the older war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,
  197. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  198. p. 330, line 26I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,
  199. p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
  200. p. 333, line 10To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  201. p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  202. p. 336, line 7The guest that was coming, he waited long, he is now housed,
  203. p. 337, line 3For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
  204. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,
  205. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  206. p. 338, line 1DAREST thou now O soul,
  207. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
  208. p. 340, line 25The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house is now,)
  209. p. 341, line 4And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them,
  210. p. 341, line 23But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me,
  211. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  212. p. 343, line 2But now the chorus I hear and am elated,
  213. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  214. p. 344, line 4O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
  215. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  216. p. 345, line 1Now I absorb immortality and peace,
  217. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  218. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  219. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
  220. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  221. p. 349, line 17I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
  222. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
  223. p. 350, line 20The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence for what it is boldly laid bare,
  224. p. 352, line 9Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.
  225. p. 353, line 17This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
  226. p. 356, line 9Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,
  227. p. 356, line 10Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost.
  228. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
  229. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  230. p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,
  231. p. 358, line 11Now trumpeter for thy close,
  232. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  233. p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,
  234. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;
  235. p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
  236. p. 362, line 20Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
  237. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  238. p. 367, line 9Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds,
  239. p. 367, line 25Onward I sped at the time—but now of their forms at night,
  240. p. 369, line 4Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,
  241. p. 371, line 26Now sound no note O trumpeters,
  242. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  243. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  244. p. 375, line 26I too carol the sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting,
  245. p. 378, line 10Now in those camps of green, in their tents dotting the world,
  246. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  247. p. 380, line 1NOW finalè to the shore,
  248. p. 380, line 2Now land and life finalè and farewell,
  249. p. 380, line 3Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
  250. p. 380, line 7But now obey thy cherish'd secret wish,
  251. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
  252. p. 384, line 71[…] As the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks […]
  253. p. 386, line 24But now from thee to me, caged bird, to feel thy joyous warble,
  254. p. 387, line 5Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
  255. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  256. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  257. p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,
  258. p. 392, line 29Victor's and vanquish'd—Lincoln's and Lee's—now thou with them,
  259. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  260. p. 394, line 3E'en the profoundest chill, as now—a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd,
  261. p. 395, line 8Watching the coming, going of the vessels, he mutters to himself—And now the close of all:
  262. p. 396, line 8The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
  263. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  264. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  265. p. 401, line 4While he the globe was circling round and round,—and now returns:
  266. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  267. p. 401, line 18Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,
  268. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  269. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,
  270. p. 407, line 7[…] careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps […]
  271. p. 407, line 10[…] the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire […]
  272. p. 407, line 28[…] exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put in fair type […]
  273. p. 408, line 12[…] streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow […]
  274. p. 408, line 18[…] of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and […]
  275. p. 409, line 3O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,
  276. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
  277. p. 409, line 13That we linger'd and lagg'd—but were wafted at last, and are now here,
  278. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  279. p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,
  280. p. 411, line 14Now triumph! transformation! jubilate! *
  281. p. 413, line 36[…] be bright. One consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth […]
  282. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,
  283. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  284. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  285. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,
  286. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,
  287. p. 422, line 6Now for my last—let me look back a moment;
  288. p. 422, line 10Delightful!—now separation—Good-bye my Fancy.
  289. p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
  290. p. 422, line 17May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning—so now finally,
  291. p. 425, line 25[…] on memory,) I look upon "Leaves of Grass," now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as […]
  292. p. 426, line 21[…] construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have […]
  293. p. 426, line 25[…] first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented to […]
  294. p. 427, line 16[…] myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly taken up that challenge […]
  295. p. 427, line 18[…] which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it means […]
  296. p. 427, line 26[…] average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and especially in each of their countless […]
  297. p. 428, line 9[…] or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds […]
  298. p. 431, line 44[…] heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those […]
  299. p. 434, line 14[…] experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]
  300. p. 436, line 3[…] to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of old were. I will also want […]
  301. p. 436, line 39[…] if there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate […]
  302. p. 437, line 7[…] then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose every […]