Concordance
The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.
O
O 578
oak 3
oak-flame 1
oaks 1
oar 1
oarsmen 1
oath 6
- p. 35, line 12The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
- p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,
- p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
- p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
- p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
oaths 3
oats 2
obdurate 1
obedience 4
- p. 15, line 9Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
- p. 217, line 12OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
- p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
- p. 435, line 18[…] an American. I think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and self-questioning […]
obedient 5
- p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,
- p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
- p. 272, line 9Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make but the soil of literature,
- p. 303, line 4Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient,
- p. 359, line 8Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,
obediently 3
obeisant 1
obelisks 2
obesity 1
obey 3
obey'd 1 today: obeyed
obeyed see obey'd
obeying 1
obeys 1
obi 2
obis 1
object 22
- p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
- p. 52, line 9They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
- p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
- p. 76, line 18I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
- p. 124, line 4Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
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- p. 195, line 22Lives, works resumed—the object I know not—but the old, the Asiatic renew'd as it must be,
- p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
- p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
- p. 263, line 10From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
- p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
- p. 282, line 18And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
- p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
- p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
- p. 396, line 2No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
- p. 412, line 19In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life,
- p. 419, line 2Allah is all, all, all—is immanent in every life and object,
- p. 419, line 11Latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception."
- p. 426, line 3[…] solely for publishing it I have been the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is […]
- p. 426, line 25[…] the first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I am certainly contented […]
- p. 432, line 14[…] be greater. In the centre of all, and object of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and […]
- p. 437, line 11[…] health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the […]
objecting 1
objection 1
objections 1
objective 1
objects 20
- p. 12, line 2Passing the hues and objects of the world,
- p. 15, line 6How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
- 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.
- p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
- p. 44, line 23To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
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- p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
- p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,
- p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
- p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
- p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
- p. 173, line 16Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
- p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.
- p. 182, line 28Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.
- p. 215, line 4Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd,
- p. 260, line 19For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
- p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
- p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
- p. 404, line 4Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
- p. 430, line 1[…] do. But it seem'd to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations […]
- p. 430, line 16[…] but that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not […]
object-urgings 1
obligated 1
obliquely 1
oblivion 2
oblivious 1
oboe 1
obscene 2
obscure 1
obscurity 1
observation 1
observations 1
observ'd 1 today: observed
observe 5
- p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
- p. 105, line 19We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
- p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
- p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
observed see observ'd
observer 1
observers 1
observing 4
- p. 26, line 25Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
- p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
- p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
- p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
obstetric 1
obstructions 1
obtain 1
occasion 2
occasional 4
- p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
- p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
- p. 236, line 12Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
- p. 239, line 18An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,
occasions 1
occult 5
- p. 24, line 8A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.
- p. 49, line 13My brain it shall be your occult convolutions!
- p. 167, line 18You occult deep volitions,
- p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
- p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)
occupation 3
- p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
- p. 419, line 18Your farm—your work, trade, occupation,
- p. 432, line 24[…] the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready […]
occupations 3
occurrence 1
occurs 1
ocean 31
- p. 23, line 14Mysterious ocean where the streams empty,
- p. 26, line 12Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
- p. 39, line 8Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
- p. 54, line 14In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
- p. 92, line 12OUT of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
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- p. 92, line 18Return in peace to the ocean my love,
- p. 92, line 19I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,
- p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
- p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
- p. 135, line 2The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,)
- p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
- p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
- p. 202, line 1AS I ebb'd with the ocean of life,
- p. 202, line 21As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
- p. 203, line 20Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,)
- p. 204, line 24But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,
- p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,
- p. 209, line 10Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
- p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,
- p. 229, line 18What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what comes here,
- p. 260, line 28Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee,
- p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
- p. 277, line 15All, all toward the mystic ocean tending.
- p. 277, line 18Fusion of ocean and land, tender and pensive waves,
- p. 311, line 29Of winds and woods and mighty ocean waves,
- p. 358, line 24The ocean fill'd with joy—the atmosphere all joy!
- p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
- p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,
- p. 391, line 7Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean.
- p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
- p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
ocean-bell 1
ocean-depths 1
oceans 10
- p. 10, line 20And this is ocean's poem.
- p. 13, line 18The infinite oceans where the rivers empty,
- p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
- p. 114, line 13I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
- 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.
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- p. 203, line 4You oceans both, I close with you,
- p. 316, line 21The oceans to be cross'd, the distant brought near,
- p. 319, line 12Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!
- p. 343, line 20Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
- p. 356, line 14Waves, oceans musical, chaotically surging,
o'clock 3
Oconee 1
O'Connor 1
octavo 1
octillions 1
October 1
odd 1
odds 4
Oder 1
odes 1
Odin 1
odium 2
odor 16
- p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
- p. 65, line 21They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
- p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
- 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;
- p. 107, line 8THE prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,
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- p. 140, line 7There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;
- p. 158, line 22I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance,
- p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,
- p. 239, line 20These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,
- p. 259, line 12Yet the lilac with mastering odor holds me.
- p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
- p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
- p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)
- p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,
- p. 389, line 16And leave its odor there.
- p. 411, line 6Is the odor exhaled? Are the colors, vitalities, dead?
odorless 1
odorous 2
odors 3
Odysseus 1
Odyssey 1
o'er 28
- p. 10, line 27Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
- p. 208, line 20A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors,
- p. 216, line 15Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
- p. 218, line 1GLIDING o'er all, through all,
- p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
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- p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
- p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
- p. 293, line 6One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd faces,
- p. 294, line 15To glide with thee O soul, o'er all, in all, as a ship o'er the waters;
- p. 306, line 13Star panting o'er a land of death, heroic land,
- p. 307, line 2The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,
- p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
- p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
- p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
- p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
- p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
- p. 352, line 17O'er Mississippi's endless course, o'er Texas' grassy plains, Kanada's woods,
- p. 352, line 18O'er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,
- p. 359, line 21Launch'd o'er the prairies wide, across the lakes,
- p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
- p. 397, line 20True conquerors o'er all the rest.
- p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
- p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,
- p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;
o'erarches 1
o'erarching 1
o'ermastering 1
o'erweening 1
of 4,527
off 58
- p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
- p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
- p. 37, line 19The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,
- 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,
- p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
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- p. 42, line 12At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
- p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
- p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
- p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
- p. 58, line 25No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
- p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
- p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
- p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
- p. 95, line 4Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
- p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
- p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
- p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
- p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
- p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
- p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
- p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
- p. 145, line 22Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast,
- p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
- p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
- p. 170, line 11Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
- p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
- p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
- p. 186, line 6Far, far off the daybreak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
- p. 202, line 6I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward,
- p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
- p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
- p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
- p. 233, line 11That brigade of the youngest was cut off and at the enemy's mercy.
- p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
- p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
- p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
- p. 243, line 10I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,
- p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
- p. 250, line 9Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
- p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
- p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
- p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
- p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.
- p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
- p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
- p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
- p. 330, line 11They warmly welcome him, he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off,
- p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
- p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
- 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,
- p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
- p. 351, line 22The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
- p. 355, line 7Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
- p. 360, line 4Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas,
- p. 385, line 18High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,
- p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,
- p. 422, line 15May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
- p. 432, line 33[…] intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the […]
offal 1
offend 3
offenders 1
offensive 2
offer 8
- p. 126, line 4I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
- p. 142, line 8Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
- p. 171, line 5I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
- p. 276, line 23Let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,
- p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
- p. 437, line 31[…] my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know […]
offer'd 3 today: offered
- p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
- p. 231, line 10I have rejected nothing you offer'd me—whom you adopted I have adopted,
- p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
offered see offer'd
offering 8
- p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
- p. 92, line 30Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,
- p. 95, line 21Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,
- p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
- p. 105, line 12Offering response to my own—these repay me,
- p. 290, line 19All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
- p. 381, line 27To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
offerings 1
offers 1
office 2
officer 2
officering 1
officers 9
- p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
- p. 231, line 23Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
- p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
- p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
- p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
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- p. 328, line 22Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,
- p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
- p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
- p. 366, line 25The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.
offices 1
official 1
offing 3
- p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
- p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
- p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
offset 2
offsets 1
offsetting 1
offspring 11
- p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
- p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
- p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
- p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
- p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
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- p. 92, line 32Offspring of my loins.
- p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
- p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
- p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
- p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,
off-throwing 1
oft 2
often 29
- p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
- p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
- p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
- p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
- p. 101, line 8How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
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- p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
- p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
- p. 111, line 14O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
- p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
- p. 111, line 19How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
- p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
- 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,
- p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
- p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
- p. 237, line 26By day her meals untouch'd, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
- p. 254, line 4Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled,
- p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
- p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
- p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
- p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
- p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
- p. 380, line 4Often enough hast thou adventur'd o'er the seas,
- p. 419, line 9(Often unconscious, often evil, downfallen,)
- p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
- p. 429, line 6[…] after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases […]
- p. 429, line 29[…] Goethe's case, it sometimes seems to me,) is often, if not always, the first element. One needs only a […]
- p. 435, line 31[…] the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear […]
- p. 438, line 8[…] Leaves of Grass" indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional […]
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- p. 20, line 6Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
- p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
- p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
- p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
- p. 237, line 15Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
- p. 282, line 7Harvest the wheat of Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, every barbed spear under thee,
- p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,
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- p. 230, line 18I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio's waters and of Indiana,
- p. 236, line 22Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind,
- p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
- p. 276, line 19Ample Ohio's, Kanada's bards—bards of California! inland bards—bards of the war!
- p. 277, line 8Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods,
- p. 368, line 15Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the front,
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- p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
- p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
- p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
- p. 349, line 13I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
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- p. 15, line 9Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
- p. 15, line 10Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
- p. 20, line 21Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
- p. 32, line 19I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
- p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
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- p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
- p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
- p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
- p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
- p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
- p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!
- p. 143, line 17To hear the birds sing once more,
- p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
- p. 143, line 19And through the orchard and along the old lanes once more.
- p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,
- p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
- p. 170, line 12(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,
- p. 196, line 7Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad.
- p. 197, line 13Once Paumanok,
- p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
- 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,
- p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
- p. 219, line 10How at once with lithe limbs unwaiting a moment she sprang,
- p. 263, line 27THIS dust was once the man,
- p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,
- p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
- p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
- p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
- p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
- p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
- p. 312, line 2(The Almighty leader now for once has signal'd with his wand.)
- p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
- p. 323, line 23Breathe, bathe myself once more in Thee, commune with Thee,
- p. 323, line 24Report myself once more to Thee.
- p. 323, line 31Thou knowest I have not once lost nor faith nor ecstasy in Thee,
- p. 358, line 15Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
- p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
- p. 381, line 17Salute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.
- p. 387, line 10Once living men—once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
- p. 392, line 18(Sounding, appealing to the sky's deaf ear—but now, rapport for once,
- p. 392, line 19A phantom in the night thy confidant for once,)
- p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
- p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
- p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;
- p. 411, line 43[…] with all their horrors. I had more than once the same experience on the fields cover'd with fallen or […]
- p. 414, line 18Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All,
- p. 425, line 14[…] intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly […]
- p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age is […]
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- p. 26, line 14Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!
- p. 27, line 6Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they unite with the old ones,
- p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
- p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
- p. 29, line 1O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
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- p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
- p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
- p. 87, line 17All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one's body, male or female,
- p. 92, line 1To have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!
- p. 114, line 13I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
- p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
- p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
- p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
- p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
- p. 208, line 11(Ever the heroes on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
- p. 214, line 2The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
- p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
- p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
- p. 280, line 8Nor in winter or summer my lost ones,
- p. 306, line 21In that alone among thy sisters thou, giantess, didst rend the ones that shamed thee,
- p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
- p. 356, line 16Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
- p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,
- p. 390, line 15I know, divine deceitful ones, your glamour's seeming;
- p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,
- 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.
- p. 397, line 18Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!
- p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,
- p. 407, line 28[…] lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and […]
- p. 428, line 9[…] far than the material or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and ripening […]
- p. 433, line 19[…] they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic area […]
- p. 437, line 8[…] days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should […]
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- p. 9, line 1ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
- p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
- p. 342, line 18When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure?
- p. 373, line 4The vehement struggle so fierce for unity in one's-self;
- p. 397, line 11Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
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- p. 23, line 19Not he with a daily kiss onward from childhood kissing me,
- p. 34, line 8All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
- p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
- p. 89, line 13In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
- p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,
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- p. 192, line 8With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these years,
- p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
- p. 207, line 8The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
- p. 238, line 5Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,
- p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
- p. 242, line 27I onward go, I stop,
- p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
- p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)
- p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
- p. 290, line 3But the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime.
- p. 306, line 31Onward beneath the sun following its course,
- p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
- p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
- p. 341, line 11Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
- p. 367, line 25Onward I sped at the time—but now of their forms at night,
- p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
- p. 397, line 5"Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering,
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- p. 17, line 11Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
- p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
- p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
- p. 66, line 6Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,
- p. 70, line 24Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
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- p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
- p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
- p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
- p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
- p. 98, line 4Or back of a rock in the open air,
- p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
- p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
- p. 104, line 17Any more than my soul is borne through the open air,
- p. 107, line 12Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
- p. 120, line 23AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,
- p. 121, line 4Strong and content I travel the open road.
- p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
- p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- p. 124, line 22I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
- p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
- p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
- p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
- p. 178, line 6From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things,
- p. 193, line 10Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive,
- p. 202, line 26Oppress'd with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
- p. 203, line 3Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
- p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
- p. 216, line 21THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
- p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
- p. 237, line 8Open the envelope quickly,
- p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
- p. 239, line 22But first I bend to the dying lad, his eyes open, a half-smile gives he me,
- p. 243, line 3On, on I go, (open doors of time! open hospital doors!)
- p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
- p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
- p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
- p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
- p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
- p. 281, line 15Open unseeded fallows, rich fields of clover and timothy,
- p. 312, line 17The psalm in the country church or mid the clustering trees, the open air camp-meeting,
- p. 325, line 14Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,
- p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,
- p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,
- p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
- p. 362, line 15Open but still a secret, the real of the real, an illusion,
- p. 374, line 18Open mouth of my soul uttering gladness,
- p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
- p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
- p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
- p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,
- p. 418, line 28In the fresh scent of the morning in the open air,
- p. 419, line 15The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,
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- p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.
- p. 297, line 1As on the road or at some crevice door by chance, or open'd window,
- p. 316, line 30I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,
- p. 350, line 21Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
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- p. 93, line 6We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,
- p. 149, line 5Welcome the rich borders of rivers, table-lands, openings,
- p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
- p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
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- p. 364, line 12OF public opinion,
- p. 413, line 38[…] continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents […]
- p. 428, line 28[…] a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the […]
- p. 436, line 21[…] it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and […]
- p. 437, line 30[…] the poetry of the past—are in my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for […]
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- p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
- p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
- p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
- p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
- p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
- p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
- p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
- p. 301, line 9Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
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- p. 57, line 21Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,
- p. 100, line 7And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut,
- p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
- p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
- p. 384, line 61[…] Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse Leaves […]
- p. 401, line 19A bunch of orange buds by mail from Florida.
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- p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
- p. 26, line 26Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
- p. 146, line 5O the orator's joys!
- p. 152, line 18Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
- p. 350, line 10In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,
- p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
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- p. 11, line 20Thou orb of many orbs!
- p. 72, line 6For it the nebula cohered to an orb,
- p. 185, line 13Lo, the darting bowling orb!
- p. 196, line 1The sign is reversing, the orb is enclosed,
- p. 213, line 32Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
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- p. 257, line 13O western orb sailing the heaven,
- p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
- p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,
- p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
- p. 306, line 26Bear up O smitten orb! O ship continue on!
- p. 313, line 8The lustrious orb, Venus contralto, the blooming mother,
- p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
- p. 352, line 1THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
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- p. 13, line 11Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
- p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
- p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,
- p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
- p. 163, line 20Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language,
- p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
- p. 419, line 24(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?)
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- p. 11, line 20Thou orb of many orbs!
- p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
- p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
- p. 252, line 5Flag cerulean—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
- p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
- p. 322, line 1And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,
- p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
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- p. 58, line 20I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
- p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
- p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
- p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
- p. 164, line 18The grapes that ripen on thy vines, the apples in thy orchards,
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- p. 182, line 27The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain,
- p. 235, line 18Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
- p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
- p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,
- p. 256, line 16Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,
- p. 285, line 22How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
- p. 388, line 13Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms;
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- p. 51, line 23The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
- p. 278, line 21The scenery of the snows, the winds' free orchestra,
- p. 311, line 30A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,
- p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
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- p. 183, line 6Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
- p. 290, line 11In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever.
- p. 321, line 28That, circling, move in order, safe, harmonious,
- p. 331, line 12The universe is duly in order, every thing is in its place,
- p. 380, line 8Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,
- p. 398, line 2Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
- p. 400, line 1Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
- p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;
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- p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,
- p. 231, line 23Do you hear the officers giving their orders?
- p. 239, line 18An occasional scream or cry, the doctor's shouted orders or calls,
- p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
- p. 248, line 1I saw them receive their orders aside, they listen'd with care, the adjutant was very grave,
- p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
- p. 400, line 14To the galloping aids, carrying orders,
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- p. 149, line 9Lands of mines, lands of the manly and rugged ores,
- p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
- p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
- p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,
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- p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
- p. 39, line 16The pure contralto sings in the organ loft,
- p. 68, line 10Music rolls, but not from the organ,
- p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
- p. 148, line 24Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.
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- p. 155, line 13Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition-house, library,
- p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?
- p. 311, line 16Now the great organ sounds,
- p. 315, line 12Nor German organ majestic, nor vast concourse of voices, nor layers of harmonies,
- p. 388, line 9After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band,
- p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
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- p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
- p. 179, line 23My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
- p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
- p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
- p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
- p. 315, line 1And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,
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- p. 29, line 18Nature without check with original energy.
- p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
- p. 92, line 27Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,
- p. 271, line 26Have real employments contributed to it? original makers, not mere amanuenses?
- p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
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- p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,
- p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
- p. 435, line 1[…] inheritance of it all. Fortunately there is the original inexhaustible fund of buoyancy, normally resident in the race, forever […]
- p. 437, line 35[…] volume is a candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art […]
- p. 437, line 36[…] art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own […]
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- p. 22, line 22These ostensible realities, politics, points?
- p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
- p. 177, line 16Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
- p. 435, line 14[…] of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride […]
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- p. 22, line 4Omnes! omnes! let others ignore what they may,
- p. 42, line 4Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
- p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
- p. 48, line 21And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
- p. 76, line 25Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
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- p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
- p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
- p. 90, line 21The like of the same I feel, the like of the same in others,
- p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
- p. 94, line 8He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done,
- p. 99, line 7I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks,
- p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
- p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
- p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
- p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,
- p. 114, line 25Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay,
- p. 114, line 26Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End,
- p. 115, line 1Others traverse the Zuyder Zee or the Scheld,
- p. 115, line 2Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles,
- p. 115, line 3Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs,
- p. 115, line 4Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena,
- p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,
- p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
- p. 120, line 5I do not prefer others so very much before you either,
- p. 122, line 24Listening to others, considering well what they say,
- p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
- p. 129, line 21The certainty of others, the life, love, sight, hearing of others.
- p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
- p. 130, line 1Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
- p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
- p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
- p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
- p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
- p. 131, line 11Others the same—others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,
- p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
- p. 135, line 5The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there,
- p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
- p. 161, line 15Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here,
- p. 168, line 4Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time,
- p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
- p. 187, line 14The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me,
- p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
- p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
- p. 189, line 21Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
- p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
- p. 190, line 2Let others finish specimens, I never finish specimens,
- p. 190, line 5What others give as duties I give as living impulses,
- p. 190, line 7Let others dispose of questions, I dispose of nothing, I arouse unanswerable questions,
- p. 193, line 12Libertad! I do not know whether others behold what I behold,
- p. 212, line 24Liberty, let others despair of you—I never despair of you.
- p. 214, line 3The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
- p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
- p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
- p. 251, line 17I know I am restless and make others so,
- p. 268, line 17Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,
- p. 268, line 18Others adorn the past, but you O days of the present, I adorn you,
- p. 272, line 6By the roadside others disdainfully toss'd.
- p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
- p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
- p. 288, line 18What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
- p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
- p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
- p. 304, line 4OTHERS may praise what they like;
- p. 305, line 18Out on the lake that expands before them, others are spearing salmon,
- p. 321, line 9(Let others deprecate, let others weep for sin, remorse, humiliation,)
- p. 322, line 9What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?
- p. 322, line 10For others' sake to suffer all?
- p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
- p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
- p. 335, line 5To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
- p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
- p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
- p. 344, line 20I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,
- p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
- p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
- p. 369, line 6Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,)
- p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
- p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
- p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
- p. 434, line 2[…] only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only from the strong flare and provocation […]
- p. 438, line 20[…] race of singers and poems differing from all others, and rigidly their own, as the land and people and […]
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- p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
- p. 426, line 4[…] buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd […]
- p. 437, line 17[…] life and all materialism, through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was […]
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- p. 160, line 11We build to ours to-day.
- p. 181, line 4In this broad earth of ours,
- p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
- p. 207, line 8The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
- p. 226, line 9But these and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours,
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- p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
- p. 226, line 11And the fields they moisten, and the crops and the fruits are ours,
- p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
- p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.
- p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
- p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
- p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
- p. 322, line 7What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
- p. 398, line 27To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
- p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
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- p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
- p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
- p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
- p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
- p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
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- p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
- p. 264, line 14We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded,
- p. 264, line 15We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
- p. 264, line 16We are executive in ourselves, we are sufficient in the variety of ourselves,
- p. 264, line 17We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves,
- p. 264, line 20Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
- p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
- p. 264, line 24It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)
- p. 323, line 4Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
- p. 323, line 8And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
- p. 430, line 21[…] subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from […]
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- p. 39, line 7I am enamour'd of growing out-doors,
- p. 65, line 13Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian?
- p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
- p. 220, line 11Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels,
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outlaw'd 4 today: outlawed
- p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
- p. 64, line 5Embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering,
- p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
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- p. 43, line 27This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
- p. 77, line 5And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
- p. 84, line 9This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
- p. 256, line 10Death's outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know,
- p. 262, line 2Victorious song, death's outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song,
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- p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
- p. 56, line 26Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
- p. 70, line 3Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
- p. 73, line 10See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,
- p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
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- p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
- p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
- p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
- p. 213, line 2Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth,
- p. 239, line 16The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
- p. 239, line 21Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my men, fall in;
- p. 264, line 20Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
- p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
- p. 426, line 11[…] is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely […]
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outstript 1 today: outstripped
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- p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
- p. 34, line 8All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
- p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
- p. 72, line 28Outward and outward and forever outward.
- p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
- p. 330, line 16The homeward bound and the outward bound,
- p. 390, line 24Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound,
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- p. 19, line 13Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.
- p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
- p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
- p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
- p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
- p. 197, line 6As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
- p. 334, line 11A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of December,
- p. 375, line 17How the clouds pass silently overhead!
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- p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
- p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
- p. 362, line 16Costless, vouchsafed to each, yet never man the owner,
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- p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
- p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
- p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,
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- p. 54, line 25Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
- p. 68, line 23A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
- p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
- p. 250, line 4Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself,
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- p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
- p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,
- p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
- p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;
- p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
- p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
- p. 307, line 26Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms,