Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “our”

our 121 Back to O

  1. p. 10, line 13Here are our thoughts, voyagers' thoughts,
  2. p. 10, line 15The sky o'erarches here, we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet,
  3. p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  4. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
  5. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  6. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  7. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  8. p. 62, line 22Our frigate takes fire,
  9. p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
  10. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  11. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  12. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  13. p. 65, line 7Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
  14. p. 65, line 8The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
  15. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  16. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  17. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
  18. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  19. p. 108, line 9Fulfilling our foray.
  20. p. 126, line 2We convince by our presence.)
  21. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  22. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  23. p. 138, line 7ALWAYS our old feuillage!
  24. p. 145, line 16I leap in the lower'd boat, we row toward our prey where he lies,
  25. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  26. p. 158, line 6These also are the lessons of our New World;
  27. p. 158, line 18Responsive to our summons,
  28. p. 163, line 9These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable,
  29. p. 163, line 12Our own rondure, the current globe I bring.
  30. p. 165, line 17While we rehearse our measureless wealth, it is for thee, dear Mother,
  31. p. 165, line 19Think not our chant, our show, merely for products gross or lucre—it is for thee, the soul in thee, electric, spiritual!
  32. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  33. p. 165, line 21Our freedom all in thee! our very lives in thee!
  34. p. 166, line 27Our time, our term has come.
  35. p. 166, line 29We who have grandly fill'd our time;
  36. p. 169, line 4Promis'd to be fulfill'd, our common kind, the race.
  37. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  38. p. 172, line 12We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
  39. p. 178, line 8From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
  40. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
  41. p. 185, line 10We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
  42. p. 185, line 23Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
  43. p. 186, line 2Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
  44. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  45. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  46. p. 191, line 13(A moment, a moment long it sail'd its balls of unearthly light over our heads,
  47. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  48. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  49. p. 194, line 10To-day our Antipodes comes.
  50. p. 219, line 15How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of soldiers,)
  51. p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
  52. p. 225, line 6To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan,
  53. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  54. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,
  55. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  56. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  57. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  58. p. 237, line 9O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd,
  59. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  60. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  61. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  62. 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,
  63. p. 254, line 2Still on our own campaigning bound,
  64. p. 262, line 21O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
  65. p. 263, line 16And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
  66. p. 263, line 18Our dear commander's death.
  67. p. 263, line 22But sing poet in our name,
  68. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
  69. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  70. p. 315, line 7Nourish'd henceforth by our celestial dream.
  71. p. 315, line 21Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)
  72. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  73. p. 321, line 6Caroling free, singing our song of God,
  74. p. 321, line 7Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.
  75. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  76. p. 333, line 10To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  77. p. 334, line 1To think how eager we are in building our houses,
  78. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  79. p. 366, line 26Continues yet the old, old legend of our race,
  80. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
  81. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,
  82. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  83. p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
  84. p. 379, line 17Our life is closed, our life begins,
  85. p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
  86. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
  87. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  88. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)
  89. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,
  90. p. 409, line 4(I will not call it our concluding voyage,
  91. p. 409, line 7Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
  92. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)
  93. p. 413, line 3Our sentiment wafted from many million heart-throbs, ethereal but solid,
  94. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)
  95. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  96. p. 417, line 20Yea, Death, we bow our faces, veil our eyes to thee,
  97. p. 425, line 11[…] I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the journey—(a […]
  98. p. 426, line 16[…] experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I think […]
  99. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far than the material or […]
  100. p. 430, line 17[…] æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will never […]
  101. p. 430, line 21[…] of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that […]
  102. p. 430, line 30[…] repeat it: Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of […]
  103. p. 430, line 32[…] present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known […]
  104. p. 431, line 2[…] least to deaden or displace those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences […]
  105. p. 431, line 20[…] day-rise of science and resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd […]
  106. p. 431, line 21[…] works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by far-back ages out of […]
  107. p. 431, line 24[…] works that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]
  108. p. 431, line 36[…] that in these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they […]
  109. p. 433, line 23[…] by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long […]
  110. p. 434, line 36[…] past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd […]
  111. p. 434, line 44[…] more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance of it all. Fortunately there is the […]
  112. p. 438, line 22[…] as the land and people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for […]