Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “only”

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  1. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
  2. p. 13, line 16Fill'd with eidólons only.
  3. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
  4. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  5. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
  6. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  7. p. 24, line 6Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
  8. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  9. p. 32, line 18Only the lull I like, the hum of your valvèd voice.
  10. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  11. p. 45, line 23I show that size is only development.
  12. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  13. p. 53, line 17(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  14. p. 53, line 18Only what nobody denies is so.)
  15. p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
  16. p. 63, line 1Only three guns are in use,
  17. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  18. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  19. 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.
  20. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  21. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  22. p. 81, line 27But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
  23. p. 83, line 7He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,
  24. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  25. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  26. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  27. p. 86, line 11She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  28. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  29. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  30. p. 90, line 5Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
  31. p. 90, line 16The sensitive, orbic, underlapp'd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are,
  32. p. 93, line 21O why sting me for a swift moment only?
  33. p. 94, line 2Give me now libidinous joys only,
  34. 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,
  35. p. 94, line 16I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,
  36. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  37. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  38. p. 100, line 13I will give of it, but only to them that love as I myself am capable of loving.
  39. p. 100, line 14NOT heaving from my ribb'd breast only,
  40. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  41. p. 101, line 4That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
  42. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  43. p. 105, line 13Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
  44. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  45. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  46. p. 124, line 4Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
  47. p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
  48. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  49. p. 137, line 7The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
  50. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  51. p. 148, line 18Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one,
  52. p. 154, line 15Served not the living only then as now, but served the dead.
  53. p. 157, line 27After all not to create only, or found only,
  54. p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
  55. p. 162, line 13Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide,
  56. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  57. p. 165, line 15(For the blood of the children, what is it, only the blood maternal?
  58. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  59. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  60. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  61. p. 180, line 13I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
  62. p. 181, line 21Not the right only justified, what we call evil also justified.
  63. p. 181, line 28Only the good is universal.
  64. p. 186, line 23None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
  65. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  66. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  67. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,
  68. p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
  69. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  70. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  71. p. 206, line 19Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
  72. p. 212, line 9Out of its robes only this, the red robes lifted by the arm,
  73. p. 214, line 21ONLY themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
  74. p. 214, line 22As souls only understand souls.
  75. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  76. p. 225, line 9Only flapping in the wind?
  77. p. 228, line 8Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me,
  78. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  79. p. 230, line 1Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,
  80. p. 230, line 6I refresh'd myself with it only, I could relish it only,
  81. p. 232, line 2Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping!
  82. p. 237, line 11All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only,
  83. p. 237, line 23The only son is dead.
  84. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  85. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  86. p. 259, line 11You only I hear—yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart,)
  87. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
  88. p. 264, line 21Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
  89. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
  90. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
  91. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
  92. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  93. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  94. p. 272, line 19People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers,
  95. p. 273, line 28The only government is that which makes minute of individuals,
  96. p. 274, line 6Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
  97. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  98. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  99. p. 276, line 12Bards for my own land only I invoke,
  100. p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
  101. p. 279, line 8Thou all-acceptress—thou hospitable, (thou only art hospitable as God is hospitable.)
  102. p. 282, line 6Under thee only they harvest, even but a wisp of hay under thy great face only,
  103. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  104. p. 289, line 10Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
  105. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  106. p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
  107. p. 291, line 12Itself only finally satisfies the soul,
  108. p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
  109. p. 296, line 19This condensation of the universe, (nay here the only universe,
  110. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  111. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  112. p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
  113. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  114. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  115. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  116. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  117. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  118. p. 307, line 25I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend,
  119. p. 308, line 3Now only do I know you,
  120. p. 308, line 10Only a lot of boys and girls?
  121. p. 308, line 11Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?
  122. p. 308, line 12Only a public school?
  123. p. 310, line 2It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
  124. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  125. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  126. p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
  127. p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
  128. p. 332, line 17I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
  129. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  130. p. 341, line 11Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
  131. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  132. p. 345, line 23Is only matter triumphant?
  133. p. 346, line 18(Haply the only living, only real,
  134. p. 346, line 21Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
  135. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  136. p. 348, line 9Thou carefully prepared by it so long—haply thou but unfoldest it, only maturest it,
  137. p. 348, line 15Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
  138. p. 349, line 7Yet in beginning only, incalculable masses of composite precious materials,
  139. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,
  140. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
  141. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  142. p. 352, line 19Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,
  143. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  144. p. 361, line 20Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,
  145. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  146. p. 378, line 8With a mystic army, (is it too order'd forward? is it too only halt ing awhile,
  147. p. 381, line 1I announce that the identity of these States is a single identity only,
  148. p. 388, line 8Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars;
  149. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  150. p. 399, line 7And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
  151. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  152. p. 409, line 12We only know that we drift here with the rest,
  153. p. 412, line 26Then only may these songs reach fruition.
  154. p. 413, line 44[…] would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world […]
  155. p. 427, line 41[…] fifty years." But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly broader, new area begins to exist—nay […]
  156. p. 428, line 3[…] to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist […]
  157. p. 429, line 30[…] if not always, the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less removes […]
  158. p. 429, line 43[…] and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's […]
  159. p. 430, line 3[…] exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent […]
  160. p. 430, line 7[…] those themes through the utterance of one, not only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but the […]
  161. p. 430, line 23[…] gone-by life and art is for us the only means of their assimilation consistent with the Western world […]
  162. p. 430, line 37[…] the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to root both influences […]
  163. p. 431, line 27[…] of him,) belongs essentially to the buried past. Only he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of […]
  164. p. 433, line 43[…] that, although I had made a start before, only from the occurrence of the Secession War, and what it […]
  165. p. 434, line 1[…] course, I don't mean in my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions […]
  166. p. 434, line 2[…] just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only from the strong flare and provocation of that war's sights […]
  167. p. 435, line 12[…] bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great lesson in Nature, amid all […]
  168. p. 435, line 34[…] endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon the […]
  169. p. 436, line 17[…] intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath […]
  170. p. 436, line 36[…] in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And […]
  171. p. 437, line 11[…] concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of view of all, but of […]