Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “own”

own 152 Back to O

  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,
  2. p. 14, line 24I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
  3. p. 20, line 10Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring,
  4. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  5. p. 20, line 26I stand in my place with my own day here.
  6. p. 21, line 24I believe these are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me,
  7. p. 22, line 2I advance from the people in their own spirit,
  8. p. 22, line 11Each is not for its own sake,
  9. p. 23, line 13Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen,
  10. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  11. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  12. p. 30, line 1The smoke of my own breath,
  13. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  14. p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
  15. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  16. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
  17. p. 36, line 2Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  18. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  19. p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  20. p. 42, line 22I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
  21. p. 43, line 26This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  22. p. 44, line 11All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  23. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  24. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  25. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
  26. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
  27. p. 53, line 1I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
  28. p. 53, line 11They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
  29. p. 54, line 12In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,
  30. p. 58, line 16Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
  31. p. 62, line 14My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
  32. p. 64, line 23That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning.
  33. p. 68, line 4My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  34. p. 69, line 5I know perfectly well my own egotism,
  35. p. 72, line 2For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
  36. p. 74, line 21He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  37. p. 74, line 23The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right,
  38. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  39. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  40. p. 79, line 21From my own voice resonant, singing the phallus,
  41. p. 81, line 20Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
  42. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
  43. p. 86, line 19Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
  44. p. 88, line 24They are ultimate in their own right—they are calm, clear, well-possess'd of themselves.
  45. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  46. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
  47. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  48. p. 105, line 12Offering response to my own—these repay me,
  49. p. 106, line 3It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
  50. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  51. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  52. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
  53. p. 123, line 22Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
  54. p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
  55. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
  56. p. 126, line 26Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
  57. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  58. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  59. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  60. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  61. 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,
  62. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  63. p. 158, line 2To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free,
  64. p. 163, line 12Our own rondure, the current globe I bring.
  65. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  66. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  67. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  68. 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?
  69. p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
  70. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,
  71. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  72. p. 177, line 7Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
  73. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  74. p. 178, line 4Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them,
  75. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  76. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
  77. p. 187, line 22Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
  78. p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
  79. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  80. p. 189, line 20Let me have my own way,
  81. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  82. p. 201, line 29My own songs awaked from that hour,
  83. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  84. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  85. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  86. 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.
  87. p. 219, line 11(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!
  88. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  89. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  90. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
  91. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  92. p. 254, line 2Still on our own campaigning bound,
  93. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  94. p. 264, line 11I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
  95. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  96. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
  97. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
  98. p. 273, line 10Dismiss'd whatever insulted my own soul or defiled my body,
  99. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  100. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  101. p. 276, line 12Bards for my own land only I invoke,
  102. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  103. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
  104. p. 287, line 25The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are choked with their own blood,
  105. p. 291, line 13The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
  106. p. 291, line 15That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
  107. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  108. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  109. p. 303, line 9WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
  110. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  111. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,
  112. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
  113. p. 325, line 3I know not even my own work past or present,
  114. p. 340, line 14Beyond Paradise, perfumed solely with mine own perfume,
  115. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  116. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  117. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
  118. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,
  119. p. 349, line 27Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
  120. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  121. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,
  122. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
  123. p. 368, line 22These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,
  124. p. 368, line 24Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;
  125. p. 380, line 19I have press'd through in my own right,
  126. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,
  127. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  128. p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
  129. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
  130. p. 425, line 18[…] to review them in the light of their own (at the time unconscious, or mostly unconscious) intentions, with certain […]
  131. p. 425, line 29[…] I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time, but have fallen back on fond dreams of the […]
  132. p. 426, line 12[…] me, I have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record—the value thereof […]
  133. p. 426, line 41[…] in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst […]
  134. p. 428, line 22[…] have cull'd enough of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live breaths of it […]
  135. p. 428, line 24[…] me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry […]
  136. p. 428, line 33[…] does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are […]
  137. p. 430, line 3[…] the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important […]
  138. p. 431, line 21[…] chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light, but have been furnish'd by […]
  139. p. 432, line 25[…] was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way for good or bad. Not till after all this […]
  140. p. 433, line 29[…] shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and […]
  141. p. 434, line 1[…] arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others […]
  142. p. 434, line 25[…] the theme or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and […]
  143. p. 434, line 36[…] and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in […]
  144. p. 437, line 37[…] can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on […]
  145. p. 437, line 38[…] not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]
  146. p. 438, line 9[…] reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to […]
  147. p. 438, line 21[…] poems differing from all others, and rigidly their own, as the land and people and circumstances of our United […]