Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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.

P

pace – precedent · precedents – pyrotechny

pace 3

  1. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,
  2. p. 368, line 12Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
  3. p. 368, line 16Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade,

paces 2

  1. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  2. p. 292, line 21Ceaseless she paces to and fro,

Pacific 11

  1. 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,
  2. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  3. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
  4. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
  5. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
6 more lines
  1. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  2. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,
  3. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
  4. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
  5. p. 373, line 20(Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,)
  6. p. 436, line 10[…] South as North—just as much along the Pacific as Atlantic—in the valley of the Mississippi, in Canada […]

pacify 1

  1. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,

pacifying 1

  1. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.

pacing 2

  1. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
  2. p. 309, line 9Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,

pack 2

  1. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)
  2. p. 41, line 8The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold,

pack'd 2 today: packed

  1. p. 35, line 23The armfuls are pack'd to the sagging mow.
  2. p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,

packed see pack'd

packer's 1

  1. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

packing-houses 1

  1. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

paddle-shaped 1

  1. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;

page 7

  1. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
  2. p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
  3. p. 159, line 18Blazon'd with Shakspere's purple page,
  4. p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  5. p. 412, line 17In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text,
  6. p. 427, line 29One main contrast of the ideas behind every page of my verses, compared with establish'd poems, is their different […]
  7. p. 432, line 28[…] become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry […]

pageant 5

  1. p. 168, line 17The flashing and golden pageant of California,
  2. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  3. p. 195, line 12For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant,
  4. p. 195, line 13I am the chanter, I chant aloud over the pageant,
  5. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,

pageant-procession 1

  1. p. 194, line 24Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.

pageants 5

  1. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  2. p. 185, line 1Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
  3. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  4. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  5. p. 356, line 27Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.

paged 1

  1. p. 300, line 6It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)

pages 6

  1. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
  2. p. 366, line 15Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages!
  3. p. 382, line 11I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
  4. p. 410, line 21A VAGUE mist hanging 'round half the pages:
  5. p. 432, line 4[…] My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through the temper and inculcation of the […]
  6. p. 435, line 42[…] working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness […]

paid 3

  1. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  2. p. 211, line 19And you, paid to defile the People—you liars, mark!
  3. p. 374, line 2Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind;

pail 3

  1. p. 39, line 30What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
  2. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
  3. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.

pain 5

  1. p. 64, line 7And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  2. p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
  3. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
  4. p. 327, line 22It is dark here under ground, it is not evil or pain here, it is blank here, for reasons.
  5. p. 403, line 21Unrest and pain, and feverish heat,

painful 3

  1. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  2. p. 90, line 19The vex'd corrosion so pensive and so painful,
  3. p. 364, line 6You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,

painless 2

  1. p. 60, line 18Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy,
  2. p. 295, line 9A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect child.

pains 6

  1. p. 45, line 16The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
  2. p. 80, line 3From native moments, from bashful pains, singing them,
  3. p. 197, line 10I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
  4. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
  5. p. 290, line 20All pains of enthusiasts scoff'd at by their neighbors,
  6. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,

paint 4

  1. p. 187, line 3But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color'd light,
  2. p. 242, line 2Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth,
  3. p. 417, line 4Call'd for vermilion paint (his looking-glass was held before him,)

painted 6

  1. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,
  2. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  3. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  4. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,
  5. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.
  6. p. 438, line 5[…] legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted anything but this one picture, which is a personal affair […]

painter 2

  1. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,
  2. p. 437, line 43[…] conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one of his wanderings through the galleries of old […]

Painters 2

  1. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  2. p. 437, line 42[…] following anecdote from a book, "Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in […]

painting 1

  1. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,

paintings 2

  1. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,
  2. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

pairing 1

  1. p. 80, line 8Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,

palace 1

  1. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,

palaces 4

  1. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  2. p. 160, line 29A brood of lofty, fair, but lesser palaces shall cluster.
  3. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  4. p. 365, line 20Ruin'd cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,

palate 2

  1. p. 49, line 31The air tastes good to my palate.
  2. p. 119, line 22You Hottentot with clicking palate! you woolly-hair'd hordes!

palate-valves 1

  1. p. 87, line 20Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,

pale 18

  1. p. 49, line 11You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life!
  2. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
  3. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  4. p. 188, line 14Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution?
  5. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
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  1. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  2. p. 243, line 12His eyes are closed, his face is pale, he dares not look on the bloody stump,
  3. p. 253, line 14Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day,
  4. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  5. p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
  6. p. 286, line 11The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
  7. p. 294, line 18Wood-violets, the little delicate pale blossoms called innocence,
  8. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  9. p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
  10. p. 359, line 5Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,
  11. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  12. p. 372, line 11Faces so pale with wondrous eyes, very dear, gather closer yet,
  13. p. 374, line 26Illustrious the passing light—illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky,

pale-green 1

  1. p. 56, line 17Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

paling 1

  1. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.

palings 1

  1. p. 255, line 18In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,

pallid 8

  1. p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  2. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  3. p. 279, line 27Lo, your pallid army follows.)
  4. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  5. p. 386, line 17Within the pallid slivers slumbering.
  6. p. 402, line 4You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time,
  7. p. 406, line 11[…] ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To […]
  8. p. 411, line 11It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.

palling 1

  1. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,

pall-like 1

  1. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,

pallor 1

  1. p. 312, line 25Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,

palm 5

  1. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
  2. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  3. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  4. p. 399, line 26Wreaths of roses and branches of palm.

palmerin 1

  1. p. 159, line 12Palmerin, ogre, departed, vanish'd the turrets that Usk from its waters reflected,

palmetto 1

  1. 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,

palms 4

  1. p. 55, line 20I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,
  2. p. 66, line 7Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  3. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  4. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,

Palos 1

  1. p. 320, line 18Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,

palpable 8

  1. p. 42, line 27The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
  2. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  3. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  4. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  5. p. 333, line 22It is palpable as the living are palpable.
  6. p. 411, line 37[…] thought so) the effect of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like […]
  7. p. 436, line 17[…] different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing […]

palpably 1

  1. p. 407, line 31[…] are dimming, and my brain more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or […]

palsied 1

  1. p. 408, line 17[…] vaunting here at the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable […]

Pamlico 1

  1. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;

pampas 1

  1. p. 117, line 4I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.

Panama 1

  1. p. 115, line 8Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.

panel 1

  1. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

pang 2

  1. p. 357, line 10Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,
  2. p. 417, line 17Although I come and unannounc'd, in horror and in pang,

pangs 6

  1. p. 51, line 17It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.
  2. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
  3. p. 242, line 29I am firm with each, the pangs are sharp yet unavoidable,
  4. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  5. p. 306, line 16Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,
  6. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;

panics 1

  1. p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,

panoply 1

  1. p. 358, line 30Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,

panorama 1

  1. p. 281, line 12Busy the far, the sunlit panorama,

panoramas 2

  1. p. 261, line 16As to long panoramas of visions.
  2. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,

pant 2

  1. p. 66, line 30I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
  2. p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,

panther 2

  1. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  2. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,

panting 4

  1. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  2. p. 306, line 13Star panting o'er a land of death, heroic land,
  3. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  4. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,

pantings 1

  1. p. 100, line 24Not in husky pantings through clinch'd teeth,

pants 1

  1. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:

papaw-tree 1

  1. p. 360, line 3I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;

paper 4

  1. p. 129, line 1Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
  2. p. 247, line 21Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?
  3. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  4. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)

papers 2

  1. p. 171, line 13Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or weekly papers,

papier-maché 1

  1. p. 174, line 7Goods of gutta-percha, papier-maché, colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,

parade 3

  1. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  2. p. 232, line 1But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters,
  3. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,

paraded 1

  1. p. 232, line 23It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here,

parading 2

  1. p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
  2. p. 371, line 27Not at the head of my cavalry parading on spirited horses,

paradise 6

  1. p. 91, line 19O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!
  2. p. 196, line 9Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
  3. p. 310, line 11The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
  4. p. 320, line 34To reason's early paradise,
  5. p. 340, line 14Beyond Paradise, perfumed solely with mine own perfume,
  6. p. 356, line 22I walk in cool refreshing night the walks of Paradise,

paradises 1

  1. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,

Paradiso 1

  1. p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,

paradox 3

  1. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  2. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  3. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,

Paraguay 1

  1. p. 115, line 15I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,

parallel 1

  1. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

paralysis 2

  1. p. 387, line 3Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
  2. p. 407, line 3[…] not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains […]

paralyzed 3

  1. p. 324, line 27Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee.
  2. p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,
  3. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,

paramount 1

  1. p. 431, line 40[…] advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]

parasites 1

  1. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,

parch'd 1 today: parched

  1. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,

parched see parch'd

pardon 1

  1. p. 292, line 20Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.

pardoner 1

  1. p. 293, line 2The heavenly pardoner death shall come.

parent 3

  1. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  2. p. 308, line 24This common marvel I beheld—the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young,
  3. p. 344, line 13I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,

parentage 1

  1. p. 163, line 1The family, parentage, childhood, husband and wife,

parents 15

  1. p. 29, line 12Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
  2. p. 102, line 7Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
  3. 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.
  4. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  5. p. 249, line 11Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd,
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 295, line 11Sat peaceful parents with contented sons.
  3. p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,
  4. p. 329, line 3He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
  5. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  6. p. 378, line 11In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,
  7. p. 401, line 5How changed the place—all the old land-marks gone—the parents dead;
  8. p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,

Paris 2

  1. p. 189, line 3And I send these words to Paris with my love,
  2. p. 406, line 18[…] Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A […]

Parisian 1

  1. p. 117, line 12I am a real Parisian,

parks 1

  1. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,

parley 2

  1. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  2. p. 222, line 19Make no parley—stop for no expostulation,

Parliament 1

  1. p. 210, line 24They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault,

parlor 1

  1. p. 249, line 22Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,

parlors 3

  1. p. 54, line 2And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  2. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)
  3. p. 128, line 11Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,

parlor-singer 1

  1. p. 137, line 11The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer, sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer, weird-singer, or something else.

Parnassus 1

  1. p. 158, line 14Placard " Removed " and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus,

parrot-like 2

  1. p. 387, line 6Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?
  2. p. 407, line 7[…] the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too […]

parrots 1

  1. p. 360, line 3I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;

parsnips 1

  1. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,

part 68

  1. p. 19, line 25One generation playing its part and passing on,
  2. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  3. p. 22, line 5I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also,
  4. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  5. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
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  1. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 52, line 27The sentries desert every other part of me,
  4. p. 60, line 28I take part, I see and hear the whole,
  5. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  6. p. 73, line 9They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
  7. p. 92, line 19I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,
  8. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  9. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  10. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  11. p. 122, line 9The picture alive, every part in its best light,
  12. p. 129, line 16The simple, compact, well-join'd scheme, myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme,
  13. p. 132, line 17Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
  14. p. 133, line 16Live, old life! play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
  15. p. 136, line 2One part does not counteract another part, he is the joiner, he sees how they join.
  16. p. 141, line 13O lands! all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I putting it at random in these songs, become a part of that, whatever it is,
  17. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  18. p. 167, line 10Joining with master-tongue bore part.
  19. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
  20. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.
  21. p. 192, line 20I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part.
  22. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  23. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  24. p. 220, line 19(Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does she speak to detain him,)
  25. p. 232, line 3As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,
  26. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  27. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  28. p. 274, line 23I dare not shirk any part of myself,
  29. p. 274, line 24Not any part of America good or bad,
  30. p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
  31. p. 282, line 21The early lilacs became part of this child,
  32. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  33. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,
  34. p. 283, line 13They gave him afterward every day, they became part of him.
  35. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  36. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  37. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  38. p. 288, line 5Then only shall liberty or the idea of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
  39. p. 290, line 2Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death,
  40. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  41. p. 291, line 17Declines to separate one part of life from every part,
  42. p. 324, line 34Let the old timbers part, I will not part,
  43. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  44. p. 333, line 10To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  45. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  46. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
  47. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
  48. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  49. p. 393, line 15Europe's as well, in every part, castle of lord or laborer's cot,
  50. p. 408, line 10[…] as I am I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting yet like a […]
  51. p. 411, line 35[…] the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting those at that time populous […]
  52. p. 412, line 20As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent,
  53. p. 419, line 1"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest,
  54. p. 419, line 24(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?)
  55. p. 426, line 32[…] usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and […]
  56. p. 434, line 22[…] The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine […]

partaker 1

  1. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,

parted 3

  1. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  2. p. 276, line 4Till the tissues that held me parted their ties upon me.
  3. p. 379, line 11To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,

part-grown 1

  1. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,

partial 2

  1. p. 181, line 18For it the partial to the permanent flowing,
  2. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,

partialist 1

  1. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?

partiality 1

  1. p. 436, line 8[…] States in my songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live and are read, it must […]

partially 3

  1. p. 217, line 7With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
  2. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
  3. p. 426, line 7[…] of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of the whole business (after a […]

particle 5

  1. 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.
  2. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  3. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  4. p. 140, line 20All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle;
  5. p. 375, line 22O amazement of things—even the least particle!

parti-colored 1

  1. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!

particular 2

  1. p. 289, line 18I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.
  2. p. 432, line 23[…] the preparation of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground […]

particulars 2

  1. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  2. p. 266, line 12Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars,

parties 1

  1. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,

parting 9

  1. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
  2. p. 105, line 17Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,
  3. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
  4. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  5. p. 216, line 16A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
  6. p. 220, line 18The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother,
  7. p. 310, line 28Parting the midnight, entering my slumber-chamber,
  8. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,

partition 1

  1. p. 87, line 6Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,

partly 2

  1. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
  2. p. 351, line 25The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,

partners 3

  1. p. 40, line 9The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other,
  2. p. 73, line 2He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
  3. p. 247, line 19I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.

partook 1

  1. p. 434, line 8[…] great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage […]

partridges 1

  1. p. 57, line 14Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out,

parts 22

  1. p. 12, line 6No more the puzzling hour nor day, nor segments, parts, put in,
  2. p. 25, line 3I will not make poems with reference to parts,
  3. p. 50, line 22My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,
  4. p. 73, line 9They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
  5. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
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  1. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  2. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
  3. p. 127, line 16All parts away for the progress of souls,
  4. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  5. p. 134, line 12You furnish your parts toward eternity,
  6. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  7. p. 137, line 1Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
  8. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  9. p. 267, line 15Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts,
  10. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  11. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
  12. p. 330, line 18The actor and actress, those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  13. p. 367, line 3From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof,
  14. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  15. p. 389, line 23Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?
  16. p. 429, line 18[…] multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty environage and limited area […]
  17. p. 431, line 6[…] for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current character in nations, social groups, or any man's […]

parturient 1

  1. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,

parturition 4

  1. p. 295, line 8In one, the sacred parturition scene,
  2. p. 325, line 5Of newer better worlds, their mighty parturition,
  3. p. 338, line 25(Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth;
  4. p. 434, line 11[…] those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those […]

parturitions 2

  1. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  2. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,

party 2

  1. p. 17, line 10The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
  2. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,

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  1. p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
  2. p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
  3. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  4. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  5. p. 27, line 15To be wrestled with as I pass for the solid prizes of the universe,
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  1. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  2. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
  3. p. 36, line 3In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
  4. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,
  5. p. 41, line 12In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
  6. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  7. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  8. p. 52, line 8I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  9. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  10. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  11. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
  12. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  13. p. 65, line 6Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  14. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  15. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  16. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  17. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  18. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  19. p. 95, line 14Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,
  20. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  21. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  22. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
  23. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  24. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  25. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  26. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
  27. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  28. p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,
  29. 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,
  30. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  31. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  32. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  33. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  34. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
  35. p. 127, line 11To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
  36. p. 133, line 23Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters!
  37. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  38. p. 143, line 8I hear bells, shouts! I pass the crowd, I run!
  39. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  40. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
  41. p. 178, line 3Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companion,
  42. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
  43. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  44. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  45. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  46. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  47. p. 272, line 7Rhymes and rhymers pass away, poems distill'd from poems pass away,
  48. p. 272, line 8The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes,
  49. p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,
  50. p. 279, line 22Pass—then rattle drums again,
  51. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  52. p. 296, line 21These burin'd eyes, flashing to you to pass to future time,
  53. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  54. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
  55. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  56. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,
  57. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  58. p. 327, line 10My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
  59. p. 329, line 5He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers all pass through,
  60. p. 332, line 10They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night, and awake.
  61. p. 332, line 11I too pass from the night,
  62. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  63. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  64. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  65. p. 344, line 6To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
  66. p. 351, line 6They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
  67. p. 357, line 1What charm thy music works! thou makest pass before me,
  68. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
  69. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  70. p. 375, line 17How the clouds pass silently overhead!
  71. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  72. p. 378, line 9Till night and sleep pass over?)
  73. p. 381, line 28So I pass, a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
  74. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  75. p. 398, line 27To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
  76. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)

passage 20

  1. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  2. p. 125, line 21The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.
  3. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,
  4. p. 131, line 1The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,
  5. p. 316, line 3Passage O soul to India!
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  1. p. 316, line 17Passage to India!
  2. p. 316, line 28Passage to India!
  3. p. 317, line 21Passage to India!
  4. p. 319, line 18Passage to India!
  5. p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
  6. p. 322, line 16Passage to more than India!
  7. p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
  8. p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
  9. p. 322, line 25Passage to more than India!
  10. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  11. p. 322, line 33Passage to you!
  12. p. 322, line 34Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
  13. p. 379, line 26THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
  14. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

passages 2

  1. p. 155, line 27Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
  2. p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,

pass'd 32 today: passed

  1. p. 36, line 23He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,
  2. p. 37, line 13Little streams pass'd all over their bodies.
  3. p. 37, line 14An unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies,
  4. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.
  5. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
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  1. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  2. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  3. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  4. p. 123, line 21Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
  5. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  6. p. 159, line 17Pass'd to its charnel vault, coffin'd with crown and armor on,
  7. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
  8. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  9. p. 234, line 17But when my General pass'd me,
  10. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
  11. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  12. p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
  13. p. 283, line 7And the schoolmistress that pass'd on her way to the school,
  14. p. 283, line 8And the friendly boys that pass'd, and the quarrelsome boys,
  15. p. 284, line 21What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grave,
  16. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  17. p. 305, line 6And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers and winters to articulate and walk—all this is equally wonderful.
  18. p. 334, line 14The gate is pass'd, the new-dug grave is halted at, the living alight, the hearse uncloses,
  19. p. 334, line 15The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
  20. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  21. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  22. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  23. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  24. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  25. p. 398, line 26By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,

passed see pass'd

passengers 3

  1. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  2. p. 133, line 10Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers!
  3. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,

passes 14

  1. p. 54, line 17In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  2. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  3. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  4. p. 152, line 9The show passes, all does well enough of course,
  5. p. 157, line 11She knows the thoughts as she passes, nothing is conceal'd from her,
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  1. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
  2. p. 183, line 26Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,
  3. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
  4. p. 248, line 4And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes,
  5. p. 256, line 19Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,
  6. p. 257, line 2Here, coffin that slowly passes,
  7. p. 333, line 11Not a day passes, not a minute or second without an accouchement,
  8. p. 333, line 12Not a day passes, not a minute or second without a corpse.
  9. p. 413, line 37[…] of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If the war […]

passing 46

  1. p. 12, line 2Passing the hues and objects of the world,
  2. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
  3. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  4. p. 18, line 21Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
  5. p. 19, line 25One generation playing its part and passing on,
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  1. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  2. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  3. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  4. p. 61, line 2The ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip,
  5. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  6. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  7. 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;
  8. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  9. p. 132, line 13Was call'd by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
  10. p. 140, line 11California life, the miner, bearded, dress'd in his rude costume, the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;
  11. p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
  12. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  13. p. 167, line 25Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
  14. p. 178, line 13Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
  15. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  16. p. 197, line 6As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
  17. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  18. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  19. p. 246, line 31O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
  20. p. 256, line 14Amid the grass in the fields each side of the lanes, passing the endless grass,
  21. p. 256, line 15Passing the yellow-spear'd wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen,
  22. p. 256, line 16Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,
  23. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  24. p. 261, line 31Passing the visions, passing the night,
  25. p. 261, line 32Passing, unloosing the hold of my comrades' hands,
  26. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
  27. p. 262, line 7Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves,
  28. p. 293, line 8Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
  29. p. 316, line 1(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
  30. p. 338, line 27Some soul is passing over.)
  31. p. 361, line 12The winter snows, the sleigh-bells, the broken ice in the river, passing along up or down with the flood-tide or ebb-tide,
  32. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  33. p. 371, line 5What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas?
  34. p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
  35. p. 374, line 26Illustrious the passing light—illustrious the pale reflection on the new moon in the western sky,
  36. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,
  37. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  38. p. 408, line 8[…] poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am […]
  39. p. 409, line 14To make the passing shower's concluding drops.
  40. p. 418, line 6A day—a passing moment or an hour—America itself bends low,

passion 10

  1. p. 9, line 6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
  2. p. 24, line 13I will make the songs of passion to give them their way,
  3. p. 107, line 16Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient,
  4. p. 188, line 2Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
  5. p. 194, line 13Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,
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  1. p. 250, line 5Race of passion and the storm.
  2. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  3. p. 312, line 25Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
  4. p. 392, line 22The tale of cosmic elemental passion,
  5. p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;

passionate 16

  1. p. 11, line 12Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,
  2. p. 26, line 14Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!
  3. p. 46, line 13O unspeakable passionate love.
  4. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
  5. p. 231, line 6Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!
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  1. p. 278, line 4FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
  2. p. 296, line 13The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)
  3. p. 299, line 7I walk with delinquents with passionate love,
  4. p. 306, line 14Strange, passionate, mocking, frivolous land.
  5. p. 311, line 26All passionate heart-chants, sorrowful appeals,
  6. p. 314, line 12The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis.
  7. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  8. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,
  9. p. 386, line 12This latent mine—these unlaunch'd voices—passionate powers,
  10. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,
  11. p. 434, line 4[…] scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]

passionately 5

  1. p. 80, line 22The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
  2. p. 94, line 16I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,
  3. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  4. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  5. p. 382, line 1Afterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)

passionately-wept 1

  1. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,

passionless 1

  1. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?

passions 18

  1. p. 84, line 23The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,
  2. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  3. p. 88, line 11All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
  4. p. 94, line 3Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,
  5. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
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  1. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  2. p. 226, line 27With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
  3. p. 229, line 14What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?
  4. p. 241, line 21Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
  5. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  6. p. 364, line 4You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,
  7. p. 388, line 20But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
  8. p. 394, line 11What passions, winnings, losses, ardors, swim thy waters!
  9. p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,
  10. p. 421, line 5All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,
  11. p. 429, line 16[…] seventy millions of equals, with their lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us […]
  12. p. 430, line 16[…] that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want […]
  13. p. 434, line 40[…] polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous […]

passive 2

  1. p. 16, line 8Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
  2. p. 84, line 14She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,

pass-key 1

  1. p. 135, line 18He has the pass-key of hearts, to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.

pass-word 1

  1. p. 48, line 14I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,

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pastoral 7

  1. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
  2. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  3. p. 142, line 5Nativities, climates, the grass of the great pastoral Plains,
  4. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  5. p. 288, line 17What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes and nomads,
  6. p. 307, line 8IN a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region,
  7. p. 307, line 27In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region.

past-reading 1

  1. p. 328, line 13Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.

pasturage 1

  1. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,

pasturages 1

  1. p. 278, line 20The heat, the showers, the measureless pasturages,

pasture 1

  1. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,

pasture-fields 1

  1. p. 52, line 21Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,

pastures 3

  1. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  2. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
  3. p. 285, line 17I will not go now on the pastures to walk,

Patagonian 1

  1. p. 120, line 4You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Feejeeman!

Patapsco 1

  1. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,

patch 1

  1. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,

patcher 1

  1. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?

patches 4

  1. p. 57, line 20Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
  2. p. 131, line 24It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
  3. p. 131, line 25The dark threw its patches down upon me also,
  4. p. 196, line 19Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,

patent 1

  1. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,

patents 1

  1. p. 164, line 10Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents,

paternal 1

  1. p. 42, line 5Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,

paternity 1

  1. p. 91, line 6The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,

path 8

  1. p. 29, line 1O a word to clear one's path ahead endlessly!
  2. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
  3. p. 120, line 25The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
  4. p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,
  5. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  6. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  7. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  8. p. 338, line 3Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?

pathetic 1

  1. p. 177, line 10Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,

pathfinder 1

  1. p. 241, line 5Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,

pathless 1

  1. p. 125, line 15We will sail pathless and wild seas,

paths 7

  1. p. 49, line 21Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you!
  2. p. 95, line 17IN paths untrodden,
  3. p. 121, line 25You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
  4. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  5. p. 295, line 13Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,
  6. p. 347, line 4The paths to the house I seek to make,
  7. p. 420, line 8Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs in corners,

pathways 1

  1. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,

patience 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 393, line 20Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same—e'en in defeat defeated not, the same:)

patient 8

  1. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
  2. p. 64, line 13Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp,
  3. p. 151, line 11The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
  4. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  5. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  6. p. 287, line 1Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
  7. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  8. p. 343, line 14A NOISELESS patient spider,

patiently 6

  1. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
  2. p. 97, line 15That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
  3. p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
  4. p. 168, line 3Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure,
  5. p. 287, line 14Waiting patiently, waiting its time.
  6. p. 355, line 11I read the promise and patiently wait.

patriarchs 2

  1. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  2. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,

patriot 2

  1. p. 393, line 23Now, or to come, or past—where patriot wills existed or exist,
  2. p. 402, line 15Mourning a good old man—a faithful shepherd, patriot.

patriots 1

  1. p. 211, line 16O aching close of exiled patriots' lives!

pats 1

  1. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;

patter 1

  1. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)

pattern 1

  1. p. 336, line 4The threads that were spun are gather'd, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.

paul's 1

  1. p. 314, line 20I hear the annual singing of the children in St. Paul's cathedral,

Paumanok 11

  1. p. 18, line 14STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born,
  2. p. 136, line 18The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi or St. Lawrence or Sacramento, or Hudson or Paumanok sound, claims him.
  3. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  4. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
  5. p. 197, line 13Once Paumanok,
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  1. p. 202, line 3As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
  2. p. 202, line 14Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
  3. p. 203, line 10I too Paumanok,
  4. p. 222, line 25FROM Paumanok starting I fly like a bird,
  5. p. 384, line 3Mannahatta, 385 Paumanok, 385 From Montauk Point, 385 To Those Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing […]
  6. p. 403, line 10Or "Paumanok, " "Song of Myself," "Calamus," or "Adam,"

Paumanok's 5

  1. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  2. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
  3. p. 198, line 6Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
  4. p. 200, line 18On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
  5. p. 201, line 27That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,

paus'd 2 today: paused

  1. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  2. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,

pause 12

  1. p. 27, line 17On my way a moment I pause,
  2. p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,
  3. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  4. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  5. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
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  1. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  2. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  3. p. 280, line 21A pause—the armies wait,
  4. p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
  5. p. 293, line 13A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute,
  6. p. 301, line 25Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
  7. p. 382, line 3What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth?

paused see paus'd

pausers 1

  1. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,

pausing 5

  1. p. 122, line 25Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
  2. p. 297, line 2Pausing, inclining, baring my head, you specially I greet,
  3. p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
  4. p. 325, line 16Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
  5. p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,

pave 1

  1. p. 35, line 7The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders,

paved 2

  1. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  2. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

pavement 8

  1. p. 70, line 3Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
  2. p. 219, line 22Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.
  3. p. 246, line 3On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
  4. p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
  5. p. 285, line 1Her corpse they deposit unclaim'd, it lies on the damp brick pavement,
  6. p. 353, line 1SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
  7. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,

pavements 7

  1. p. 18, line 16After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
  2. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
  3. p. 193, line 16When million-footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements,
  4. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  5. p. 225, line 4But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
  6. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  7. p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,

paving-man 1

  1. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,

pay 3

  1. p. 110, line 15But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is certain one way or another,
  2. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  3. p. 273, line 3Give me the pay I have served for,

paying 1

  1. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?

payment 2

  1. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
  2. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

pea 1

  1. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,

peace 58

  1. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  2. p. 70, line 11Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  3. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  4. p. 92, line 18Return in peace to the ocean my love,
  5. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
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  1. p. 162, line 2Lifted, illumin'd, bathed in peace—elate, secure in peace.
  2. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  3. p. 182, line 33Health, peace, salvation universal.
  4. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  5. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,
  6. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
  7. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  8. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
  9. p. 226, line 3Discarding peace over all the sea and land.
  10. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  11. p. 227, line 21Not houses of peace indeed are you, nor any nor all their prosperity, (if need be, you shall again have every one of those houses to destroy them,
  12. p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
  13. p. 231, line 12I chant and celebrate all that is yours—yet peace no more,
  14. p. 231, line 13In peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine,
  15. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  16. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  17. p. 255, line 3The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely,
  18. p. 264, line 2As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more,
  19. p. 265, line 7Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like,
  20. p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
  21. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  22. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,
  23. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  24. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
  25. p. 287, line 18And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
  26. p. 290, line 16All the brave actions of war and peace,
  27. p. 296, line 24A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,
  28. p. 307, line 6In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever,
  29. p. 329, line 4The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  30. p. 331, line 3The wildest and bloodiest is over, and all is peace.
  31. p. 331, line 4Peace is always beautiful,
  32. p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  33. p. 345, line 1Now I absorb immortality and peace,
  34. p. 350, line 25(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
  35. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  36. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  37. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
  38. p. 368, line 10Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
  39. p. 369, line 1AS I walk these broad majestic days of peace,
  40. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  41. p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
  42. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  43. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,
  44. p. 398, line 13For all my days—not those of peace alone—the days of war the same,
  45. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;
  46. p. 400, line 2Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decorum,
  47. p. 400, line 17Away with your life of peace!—your joys of peace!
  48. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  49. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,

peaceably 1

  1. p. 289, line 6Some prowling through woods, some living peaceably on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,

peaceful 13

  1. p. 162, line 1Practical, peaceful life, the people's life, the People themselves,
  2. p. 185, line 30Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
  3. p. 201, line 5Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there in the night,
  4. p. 216, line 21THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
  5. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
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  1. p. 227, line 2Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
  2. p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
  3. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  4. p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
  5. p. 276, line 16Bards of the great Idea! bards of the peaceful inventions! (for the war, the war is over!)
  6. p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
  7. p. 295, line 11Sat peaceful parents with contented sons.
  8. p. 391, line 21Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,

peacefully 1

  1. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,

peace-talk 1

  1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,

peaches 1

  1. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,

peak 1

  1. p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,

peaks 11

  1. p. 26, line 12Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
  2. p. 114, line 5I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,
  3. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  4. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  5. p. 181, line 11As from tall peaks the modern overlooking,
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  1. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  2. p. 252, line 19LO, Victress on the peaks,
  3. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  4. p. 368, line 20These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,
  5. p. 384, line 74[…] Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  6. p. 404, line 8The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.

peal 2

  1. p. 67, line 19Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
  2. p. 381, line 17Salute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.

pealing 4

  1. p. 22, line 9(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the winner's pealing shouts,
  2. p. 208, line 24Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
  3. p. 356, line 15That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
  4. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;

peals 2

  1. p. 202, line 30With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
  2. p. 392, line 16And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laughter,

Pearl 1

  1. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,

pear-shaped 1

  1. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)

pebbles 1

  1. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)

pebble-stones 1

  1. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,

pecan-trees 1

  1. p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,

peculation 1

  1. p. 290, line 7Putridity of gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,

peculiarly 1

  1. p. 411, line 31[…] a surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]

Pedee 2

  1. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
  2. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

pedler 1

  1. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)

peep 2

  1. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  2. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,

peep'd 2 today: peeped

  1. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  2. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,

peeped see peep'd

peer 1

  1. p. 79, line 14Existing I peer and penetrate still,

peering 3

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  2. p. 197, line 21Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
  3. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,

peeringly 1

  1. p. 35, line 4I peeringly view them from the top.

peerless 5

  1. p. 11, line 12Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,
  2. p. 219, line 11(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!
  3. p. 312, line 24Italia's peerless compositions.
  4. p. 348, line 2To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern,
  5. p. 350, line 15(Lo, where arise three peerless stars,

peers 1

  1. p. 40, line 13The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut eyes bent sideways,

pegs 1

  1. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,

Pekin 1

  1. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,

pell-mell 2

  1. p. 210, line 19Retreat then—pell-mell!
  2. p. 417, line 14Dash'd pell-mell by the blow—yet usher'd life continuing on,

pellucid 1

  1. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,

pelts 1

  1. p. 35, line 9The snow-sleighs, clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,

pen 1

  1. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?

penal 1

  1. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.

pencil 1

  1. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,

pendant 1

  1. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,

pending 2

  1. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  2. p. 406, line 15[…] Day, 411. Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation […]

penetrate 6

  1. p. 79, line 14Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  2. p. 120, line 17What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,
  3. p. 275, line 7I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me,
  4. p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
  5. p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
  6. p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,

penetrates 1

  1. p. 120, line 17What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself,

penetrating 3

  1. p. 241, line 5Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,
  2. p. 414, line 9(Distances balk'd—occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)
  3. p. 431, line 14[…] and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent with these United […]

penetration 1

  1. p. 429, line 30[…] the first element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less removes, the material facts […]

peninsula 2

  1. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  2. p. 433, line 9[…] prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long Island, in a shelter'd […]

peninsulas 3

  1. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
  2. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  3. p. 195, line 8From the southern peninsulas and the demi-continental islands, from Malaysia,

pennant 14

  1. p. 16, line 21The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately—below emulous waves press forward,
  2. p. 56, line 19Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
  3. p. 208, line 20A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors,
  4. p. 223, line 20With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
  5. p. 223, line 28With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
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  1. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
  2. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  3. p. 226, line 21That pennant I would be and must be.
  4. p. 226, line 23To be that pennant would be too fearful,
  5. p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,
  6. p. 227, line 19I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,
  7. p. 228, line 7O you up there! O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious,
  8. p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
  9. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,

pennants 10

  1. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  2. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
  3. p. 162, line 8Thy pennants labor, loosen'd to the breeze,
  4. p. 163, line 32See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.
  5. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,
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  1. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  2. p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
  3. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  4. p. 402, line 4You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time,
  5. p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,

Pennsylvania 5

  1. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  2. p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
  3. p. 221, line 23Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,
  4. p. 282, line 12Clip the wool of California or Pennsylvania,
  5. p. 416, line 6From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,

Pennsylvanian 1

  1. p. 26, line 18The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!

Penobscot 1

  1. p. 155, line 23Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec,

pens 1

  1. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

pensive 19

  1. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  2. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
  3. p. 90, line 19The vex'd corrosion so pensive and so painful,
  4. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  5. p. 107, line 23Then I am pensive—I hastily walk away fill'd with the bitterest envy.
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  1. p. 147, line 11Know'st thou the joys of pensive thought?
  2. p. 194, line 13Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,
  3. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  4. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
  5. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  6. p. 277, line 18Fusion of ocean and land, tender and pensive waves,
  7. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  8. p. 309, line 11Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,
  9. p. 321, line 25(O pensive soul of me—O thirst unsatisfied—waitest not there?
  10. p. 346, line 15PENSIVE and faltering,
  11. p. 356, line 12Some dead composer, haply thy pensive life
  12. p. 360, line 1O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again,
  13. p. 377, line 6PENSIVE on her dead gazing I heard the Mother of All,
  14. p. 429, line 1[…] adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it may sound at […]

pensively 1

  1. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,

pent 5

  1. p. 200, line 21The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting,
  2. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  3. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,
  4. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
  5. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,

pent-up 2

  1. p. 79, line 18FROM pent-up aching rivers,
  2. p. 89, line 12Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,

people 42

  1. p. 15, line 4How people respond to them, yet know them not,
  2. p. 19, line 20They are now cover'd with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
  3. p. 22, line 2I advance from the people in their own spirit,
  4. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
  5. p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
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  1. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  2. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  3. p. 64, line 14My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.
  4. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
  5. p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,
  6. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  7. p. 128, line 6Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,
  8. p. 131, line 19In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me,
  9. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
  10. p. 146, line 2How clear is my mind—how all people draw nigh to me!
  11. p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
  12. p. 162, line 1Practical, peaceful life, the people's life, the People themselves,
  13. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
  14. p. 188, line 16Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
  15. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  16. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  17. p. 211, line 19And you, paid to defile the People—you liars, mark!
  18. p. 212, line 2The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings.
  19. p. 224, line 25O father it is alive—it is full of people—it has children,
  20. p. 226, line 14The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
  21. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  22. p. 262, line 23The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
  23. p. 271, line 9Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the whole People?
  24. 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,
  25. p. 287, line 10Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,
  26. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  27. p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
  28. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  29. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  30. p. 364, line 14Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
  31. p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
  32. p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
  33. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  34. p. 378, line 21The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People,
  35. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,
  36. p. 438, line 19I say no land or people or circumstances ever existed so needing a race of singers […]
  37. p. 438, line 21[…] and rigidly their own, as the land and people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and […]

peopled 1

  1. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.

people's 2

  1. p. 162, line 1Practical, peaceful life, the people's life, the People themselves,
  2. p. 272, line 19People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers,

perceiv'd 1 today: perceived

  1. p. 83, line 11I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,

perceive 14

  1. p. 33, line 23O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
  2. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  3. p. 77, line 19I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,
  4. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  5. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
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  1. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  2. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  3. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
  4. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  5. p. 190, line 19I perceive I have no time to lose.
  6. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  7. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  8. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  9. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,

perceived see perceiv'd

perceivers 1

  1. p. 298, line 11Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,

perceives 3

  1. p. 266, line 3Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne from the house,
  2. p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
  3. p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,

perceptibly 1

  1. p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.

perceptive 1

  1. p. 365, line 1They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,

peremptorily 1

  1. p. 298, line 14They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,

peremptory 1

  1. p. 426, line 15[…] William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am. Behind all else that can be said […]

perennial 7

  1. p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
  2. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  3. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  4. p. 255, line 11Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
  5. p. 372, line 28That I exhale love from me wherever I go like a moist perennial dew,
  6. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
  7. p. 387, line 19Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,

perennially 1

  1. p. 408, line 12[…] now. I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow […]

perfect 74

  1. p. 9, line 19The making of perfect soldiers.
  2. p. 18, line 15Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother,
  3. p. 25, line 2And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
  4. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  5. p. 29, line 13I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
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  1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 38, line 5The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  3. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  4. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  5. p. 80, line 12The welcome nearness, the sight of the perfect body,
  6. p. 81, line 25That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
  7. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  8. p. 84, line 13She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
  9. p. 85, line 9The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)
  10. p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
  11. p. 92, line 20Behold the great rondure, the cohesion of all, how perfect!
  12. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  13. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  14. p. 110, line 11These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
  15. p. 111, line 11Ah lover and perfect equal,
  16. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  17. p. 136, line 6He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
  18. p. 136, line 19The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood,
  19. p. 136, line 23Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
  20. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  21. p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
  22. p. 148, line 4To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
  23. p. 160, line 30Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started,
  24. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
  25. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  26. p. 182, line 5Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
  27. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  28. p. 213, line 13LOVER divine and perfect Comrade,
  29. p. 214, line 20Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
  30. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  31. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  32. p. 267, line 22The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,
  33. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  34. p. 295, line 9A happy painless mother birth'd a perfect child.
  35. p. 295, line 30(The intentions perfect and divine,
  36. p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?
  37. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  38. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  39. p. 302, line 21Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form'd of perfect body,
  40. p. 306, line 30Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,
  41. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  42. p. 321, line 26Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
  43. p. 331, line 9Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
  44. p. 337, line 15How beautiful and perfect are the animals!
  45. p. 337, line 16How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  46. p. 337, line 17What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
  47. p. 337, line 18The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids perfect;
  48. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  49. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
  50. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  51. p. 358, line 20A reborn race appears—a perfect world, all joy!
  52. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
  53. p. 362, line 1Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
  54. p. 362, line 4And that nothing fails its perfect return, and that what are called lies are perfect returns,
  55. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  56. p. 374, line 9Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
  57. p. 380, line 17When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
  58. p. 388, line 9After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band,
  59. p. 389, line 12Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
  60. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
  61. p. 409, line 31[…] involve vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control and scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to […]

perfect-form'd 1

  1. p. 330, line 21The stammerer, the sick, the perfect-form'd, the homely,

perfection 6

  1. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  2. p. 134, line 11We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
  3. p. 181, line 7Nestles the seed perfection.
  4. p. 322, line 8What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
  5. p. 374, line 19Eyes of my soul seeing perfection,
  6. p. 408, line 11[…] kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in me […]

perfections 1

  1. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.

perfectly 6

  1. p. 36, line 21And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  2. p. 69, line 5I know perfectly well my own egotism,
  3. p. 92, line 27Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,
  4. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  5. p. 366, line 28The ancient banner perfectly maintain'd,
  6. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,

perfect-model'd 1

  1. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?

perforated 1

  1. p. 243, line 17I dress the perforated shoulder, the foot with the bullet-wound,

performance 3

  1. p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
  2. p. 438, line 17[…] who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

performances 1

  1. p. 82, line 9Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their performances,

perform'd 2 today: performed

  1. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
  2. p. 437, line 33[…] the very great advantage of chanting the already perform'd, so full of glories, reminiscences dear to the minds of […]

performed see perform'd

performer 1

  1. p. 68, line 7Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on the reeds within.

performers 3

  1. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  2. p. 313, line 25I see again the wild old Corybantian dance, the performers wounding each other,
  3. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.

perfume 17

  1. p. 10, line 18The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm,
  2. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  3. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  4. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  5. p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.
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  1. p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
  2. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  3. p. 258, line 7I'll perfume the grave of him I love.
  4. p. 327, line 16Perfume and youth course through me and I am their wake.
  5. p. 340, line 14Beyond Paradise, perfumed solely with mine own perfume,
  6. p. 347, line 16Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor library;
  7. p. 357, line 19Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,
  8. p. 366, line 13Perfume this book of mine O blood-red roses!
  9. p. 372, line 20Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the fœtor arising.
  10. p. 372, line 21Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
  11. p. 372, line 24Perfume all—make all wholesome,
  12. p. 400, line 16The perfume strong, the smoke, the deafening noise;

perfumed 2

  1. p. 340, line 14Beyond Paradise, perfumed solely with mine own perfume,
  2. p. 359, line 23O MAGNET-SOUTH! O glistening perfumed South! my South!

perfumes 8

  1. p. 29, line 19Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  2. p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
  3. p. 162, line 15With perfumes, heat and wine, beneath the dazzling chandeliers.
  4. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  5. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  6. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  7. p. 395, line 24(As perfume's, color's, sunlight's correlation:)

perhaps 34

  1. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  2. p. 73, line 28Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.
  3. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  4. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  5. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
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  1. p. 97, line 17That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
  2. p. 97, line 26The way is suspicious, the result uncertain, perhaps destructive,
  3. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  4. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  5. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  6. p. 158, line 1But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded,
  7. p. 199, line 12Perhaps the one I want so much will rise, will rise with some of you.
  8. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  9. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  10. p. 288, line 18What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
  11. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  12. p. 318, line 25Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
  13. p. 369, line 4Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,
  14. p. 369, line 5Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,
  15. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
  16. p. 371, line 8The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war,
  17. p. 381, line 6I announce a man or woman coming, perhaps you are the one, (So long!)
  18. p. 404, line 7Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
  19. p. 407, line 8[…] of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not […]
  20. p. 425, line 4PERHAPS the best of songs heard, or of any and all […]
  21. p. 427, line 3Perhaps this is in brief, or suggests, all I have sought […]
  22. p. 427, line 16[…] of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly taken up that challenge and […]
  23. p. 431, line 6[…] in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current character in nations, social groups […]
  24. p. 432, line 6[…] old works as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly […]
  25. p. 433, line 19[…] up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity […]
  26. p. 435, line 24[…] forming of a great aggregate Nation, it is, perhaps, altogether through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and […]
  27. p. 435, line 33[…] modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms an appearance only; the reality is […]
  28. p. 437, line 40As the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will […]
  29. p. 438, line 4[…] I do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy […]

peril 1

  1. p. 98, line 17But these leaves conning you con at peril,

peril'd 2 today: periled

  1. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  2. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,

periled see peril'd

perilous 1

  1. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,

perils 2

  1. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  2. p. 372, line 3With all the perils were yours.)

period 4

  1. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  2. p. 266, line 7Any period one nation must lead,
  3. p. 428, line 19My Book and I—what a period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to […]
  4. p. 428, line 22[…] be, if we have cull'd enough of that period in its own spirit to worthily waft a few live […]

permanent 10

  1. p. 13, line 23Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
  2. p. 14, line 5Thy body permanent,
  3. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
  4. p. 22, line 17Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
  5. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
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  1. p. 181, line 18For it the partial to the permanent flowing,
  2. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  3. p. 340, line 9Permanent here from my side, warlike, equal with any, real as any,
  4. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)
  5. p. 349, line 20Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind, thy soaring spirit,

permanently 1

  1. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,

permeate 2

  1. p. 418, line 18Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
  2. p. 436, line 28[…] and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or […]

permission 1

  1. p. 80, line 29The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking,

permit 4

  1. p. 29, line 17I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 98, line 9Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
  4. p. 435, line 16[…] the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more or less a motif of nearly […]

permitted 2

  1. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
  2. p. 125, line 27No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.

permitting 1

  1. p. 273, line 17Rejecting none, permitting all.

pernicious 1

  1. p. 144, line 20(O something pernicious and dread!

perpendicular 1

  1. p. 120, line 20I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal,

perpetual 12

  1. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
  2. p. 73, line 16I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)
  3. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,
  4. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
  5. p. 217, line 14A MASK, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
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  1. p. 257, line 1With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang,
  2. p. 272, line 21Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies here,
  3. p. 277, line 9Some down Colorado's cañons from sources of perpetual snow,
  4. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
  5. p. 398, line 3As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice,
  6. p. 433, line 17[…] that beyond their limited range of melody (like perpetual chimes of music bells, ringing from lower b flat up […]

perpetually 3

  1. p. 44, line 23To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
  2. p. 171, line 6There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
  3. p. 329, line 2He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes, the color is blanch'd from his cheeks,

perpetuating 1

  1. p. 201, line 2O solitary me listening, never more shall I cease perpetuating you,

perplexing 1

  1. p. 325, line 6Mocking, perplexing me.

perseverance 1

  1. p. 118, line 14I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,

persevere 1

  1. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.

perseveres 1

  1. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,

Persia 2

  1. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  2. p. 319, line 26On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,

Persian 5

  1. p. 119, line 2You beautiful-bodied Persian at full speed in the saddle shooting arrows to the mark!
  2. p. 154, line 4Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindustanee,
  3. p. 406, line 30[…] Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death, 417. A Persian Lesson, 418. The Commonplace, 419. "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete," 419. Mirages, 420. L […]
  4. p. 414, line 26The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian,
  5. p. 418, line 29On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-garden,

Persians 1

  1. p. 313, line 21I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,

persimmon 1

  1. p. 56, line 4Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the delicate blue-flower flax,

person 32

  1. p. 9, line 1ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
  2. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  3. p. 43, line 20I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
  4. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  5. p. 60, line 10I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,
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  1. p. 67, line 21By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born,
  2. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
  3. p. 83, line 1This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
  4. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  5. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  6. p. 103, line 12ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
  7. p. 110, line 16(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
  8. p. 121, line 16The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the illiterate person, are not denied;
  9. p. 125, line 27No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
  10. p. 135, line 20The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
  11. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  12. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  13. 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,
  14. p. 286, line 6Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!
  15. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  16. p. 290, line 1All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
  17. p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
  18. p. 304, line 19I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
  19. p. 326, line 4And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?
  20. p. 326, line 31The stammerer, the well-form'd person, the wasted or feeble person.
  21. p. 332, line 19LET the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands;
  22. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  23. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  24. 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.
  25. p. 438, line 10[…] attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the […]

personages 1

  1. p. 427, line 23[…] plots of love or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World song; nothing, as I may say, for beauty's […]

personal 12

  1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  2. p. 83, line 6They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,
  3. p. 123, line 16Here a great personal deed has room,
  4. p. 152, line 2And nothing endures but personal qualities.
  5. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
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  1. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  2. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with […]
  3. p. 435, line 36[…] for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same. The times and […]
  4. p. 437, line 40[…] the present is perhaps mainly an attempt at personal statement or illustration, I will allow myself as further help […]
  5. p. 438, line 6[…] anything but this one picture, which is a personal affair—a piece out of a man's life […]
  6. p. 438, line 9[…] the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to put a […]
  7. p. 438, line 13[…] on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But it is […]

personalities 2

  1. p. 147, line 4To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth.
  2. p. 435, line 21[…] has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring […]

personality 14

  1. p. 11, line 9Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,
  2. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  3. p. 147, line 4To confront with your personality all the other personalities of the earth.
  4. p. 151, line 26The power of personality just or unjust.
  5. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
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  1. p. 302, line 12The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.
  2. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  3. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  4. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  5. p. 426, line 42[…] my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and […]
  6. p. 426, line 44[…] and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far more candid […]
  7. p. 433, line 33[…] must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be […]
  8. p. 436, line 23[…] fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme in literature. I am not […]

personally 4

  1. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  2. p. 170, line 3If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
  3. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
  4. p. 382, line 6From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.

personified 1

  1. p. 310, line 16Personified dim shapes—you hidden orchestras,

personify 1

  1. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.

persons 39

  1. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;
  2. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  3. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  4. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
  5. p. 88, line 12All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth,
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  1. p. 94, line 10O you shunn'd persons, I at least do not shun you,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 105, line 10Nor to converse with learn'd persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
  4. p. 105, line 20We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
  5. p. 109, line 7You natural persons old and young!
  6. p. 112, line 13What climes? what persons and cities are here?
  7. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  8. p. 119, line 23You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!
  9. p. 121, line 18The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
  10. p. 123, line 14Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
  11. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  12. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  13. p. 149, line 23The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,
  14. p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,
  15. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,
  16. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,
  17. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  18. p. 265, line 5Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
  19. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  20. p. 272, line 1What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
  21. p. 272, line 9Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make but the soil of literature,
  22. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  23. p. 276, line 23Let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,
  24. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  25. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;
  26. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  27. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  28. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
  29. p. 380, line 15When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
  30. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  31. p. 380, line 25I announce natural persons to arise,
  32. p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
  33. p. 431, line 34[…] in America just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the […]
  34. p. 434, line 41[…] interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean […]

persuade 1

  1. p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,

persuaded 3

  1. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  2. p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
  3. p. 243, line 7(Come sweet death! be persuaded O beautiful death!

persuasions 1

  1. p. 177, line 17Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,

persuasive 1

  1. p. 227, line 13But out of the night emerging for good, our voice persuasive no more,

pert 2

  1. p. 38, line 23The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listening close,
  2. p. 187, line 15The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.

pertains 1

  1. p. 249, line 20NOT youth pertains to me,

perturbations 4

  1. p. 13, line 14(The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
  2. p. 167, line 25Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
  3. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  4. p. 352, line 14I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)

perturb'd 1 today: perturbed

  1. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)

perturbed see perturb'd

Peru 1

  1. 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,

peruse 3

  1. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
  2. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  3. p. 133, line 18Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;

perused 3

  1. p. 20, line 23I have perused it, own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it,)
  2. p. 96, line 11Leaves from you I glean, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
  3. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,

perusing 1

  1. p. 277, line 13In you whoe'er you are my book perusing,

pervade 2

  1. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  2. p. 411, line 41[…] when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]

pervaded 1

  1. p. 333, line 17Medicines stand unused on the shelf, (the camphor-smell has long pervaded the rooms,)

pervades 2

  1. p. 124, line 22I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
  2. p. 325, line 21The night pervades them and infolds them.

pervading 3

  1. p. 60, line 17I lie in the night air in my red shirt, the pervading hush is for my sake,
  2. p. 340, line 16Ethereal, pervading all, (for without me what were all? what were God?)
  3. p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,

pervious 1

  1. p. 93, line 16We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,

pestilence 1

  1. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,

pet 2

  1. p. 326, line 24I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides,
  2. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,

Pete 2

  1. p. 236, line 18COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
  2. p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.

petersburg 1

  1. p. 117, line 13I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,

petroleum 1

  1. p. 163, line 8Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum,

petty 1

  1. p. 429, line 18[…] are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or […]

pew 1

  1. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,

pews 1

  1. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,

phalanx 1

  1. p. 426, line 10[…] all the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by […]

phallic 3

  1. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
  2. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  3. p. 92, line 27Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,

phallus 1

  1. p. 79, line 21From my own voice resonant, singing the phallus,

phantasmic 1

  1. p. 295, line 2Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,)

phantasms 2

  1. p. 335, line 15The domestic joys, the daily housework or business, the building of houses, are not phantasms, they have weight, form, location,
  2. p. 335, line 16Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,

phantom 13

  1. p. 9, line 11A Phantom arose before me with distrustful aspect,
  2. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  3. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  4. p. 236, line 12Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving,
  5. p. 246, line 7Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
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  1. p. 246, line 26The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin'd,
  2. p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
  3. p. 264, line 3A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern visage accosted me,
  4. p. 268, line 25I listened to the Phantom by Ontario's shore,
  5. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  6. p. 341, line 21AS if a phantom caress'd me,
  7. p. 392, line 19A phantom in the night thy confidant for once,)
  8. p. 393, line 10In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,

phantoms 11

  1. p. 71, line 21Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me,
  2. p. 210, line 7Phantoms! phantoms countless by flank and rear!
  3. p. 210, line 10What troubles you Yankee phantoms? what is all this chattering of bare gums?
  4. p. 234, line 28See—as the annual round returns the phantoms return,
  5. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
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  1. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  2. p. 310, line 17You serenades of phantoms with instruments alert,
  3. p. 357, line 13O how the immortal phantoms crowd around me!
  4. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
  5. p. 372, line 13Phantoms of countless lost,

Pharos 1

  1. p. 161, line 18Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon,

phase 2

  1. p. 46, line 24I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  2. p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,

phases 4

  1. p. 46, line 24I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  2. p. 126, line 22Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
  3. p. 431, line 28[…] he holds the proud distinction for certain important phases of that past, of being the loftiest of the singers […]
  4. p. 433, line 20[…] and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has […]

Phenicia 1

  1. p. 191, line 23With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,

Philadelphia 2

  1. p. 141, line 4The city wharf, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,
  2. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,

philosophers 1

  1. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,

philosophies 3

  1. p. 102, line 4See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
  2. p. 123, line 26Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
  3. p. 398, line 7Amid the changing schools, theologies, philosophies,

philosophs 4

  1. p. 20, line 18Dead poets, philosophs, priests,
  2. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  3. p. 118, line 12I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
  4. p. 136, line 23Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,

philosophy 4

  1. p. 73, line 19I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,
  2. p. 272, line 16In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft,
  3. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  4. p. 426, line 18[…] theory. (I think I have at least enough philosophy not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or […]

phoebe-bird 1

  1. p. 282, line 22And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,

photograph 1

  1. p. 161, line 11The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.

photographs 1

  1. p. 69, line 11The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?

phrase 2

  1. p. 411, line 31[…] with the tide and the sunset," was a phrase I heard from a surgeon describing an old sailor's death […]
  2. p. 437, line 6[…] God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I felt it […]

phrases 3

  1. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.
  2. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  3. p. 180, line 10(If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?

phrenologist 1

  1. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.

phrenology 3

  1. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
  2. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  3. p. 288, line 20What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,

physical 3

  1. p. 403, line 20After a week of physical anguish,
  2. p. 408, line 11[…] a kid or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have […]
  3. p. 426, line 41[…] literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of […]

physician 4

  1. p. 42, line 21Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
  2. p. 66, line 19Let the physician and the priest go home.
  3. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
  4. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,

physiognomy 3

  1. p. 9, line 4Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,
  2. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
  3. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.

physiology 5

  1. p. 9, line 3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  2. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  3. p. 288, line 20What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
  4. p. 364, line 24They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
  5. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.

physique 2

  1. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
  2. p. 374, line 9Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,

piano 2

  1. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,
  2. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)

piano-tunes 1

  1. p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,

piazza 1

  1. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,

pick 8

  1. p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  2. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  3. p. 94, line 7The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
  4. p. 155, line 11Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
  5. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
  6. p. 328, line 20In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  7. p. 420, line 14(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,)
  8. p. 420, line 17NOT to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)

pick'd 3 today: picked

  1. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  2. p. 161, line 4The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
  3. p. 208, line 7Pick'd sparingly without noise by thee old ocean, chosen by thee,

picked see pick'd

pickest 1

  1. p. 208, line 8Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations,

pickets 2

  1. p. 355, line 13She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
  2. p. 378, line 1Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,

picking 3

  1. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  2. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  3. p. 185, line 10We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,

picks 2

  1. p. 60, line 15I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,
  2. p. 188, line 6Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.

picnics 1

  1. p. 56, line 27Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball,

pictorial 1

  1. p. 429, line 41[…] know well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and all […]

picture 7

  1. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
  2. p. 122, line 9The picture alive, every part in its best light,
  3. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  4. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  5. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  6. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  7. p. 438, line 6[…] school, or ever painted anything but this one picture, which is a personal affair—a piece out of a […]

pictures 7

  1. p. 89, line 28The real poems, (what we call poems being merely pictures,)
  2. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  3. p. 258, line 9And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,
  4. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  5. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  6. p. 310, line 6With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
  7. p. 431, line 38[…] and that they are of incalculable value as pictures of the past. I willingly make those admissions, and to […]

picturesque 5

  1. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  2. p. 117, line 26I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat,
  3. p. 160, line 15More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,
  4. p. 267, line 19The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when wrong'd,
  5. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,

piece 3

  1. p. 40, line 6Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
  2. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,
  3. p. 438, line 6[…] one picture, which is a personal affair—a piece out of a man's life […]

piecemeal 1

  1. p. 213, line 6Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,

pieces 3

  1. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  2. p. 248, line 13The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces,
  3. p. 436, line 19[…] my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines […]

pier 1

  1. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,

pierc'd 3 today: pierced

pierc'd 2 · pierced 1

  1. p. 212, line 15Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by the gray lead,
  2. p. 261, line 19Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them,
  3. p. 306, line 23This cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet,

pierce 5

  1. p. 199, line 15Pierce the woods, the earth,
  2. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  3. p. 326, line 12Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,
  4. p. 349, line 12How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future?
  5. p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,

pierces 1

  1. p. 286, line 9The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,

piercing 3

  1. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  2. p. 183, line 30We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
  3. p. 208, line 24Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,

piers 2

  1. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  2. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;

piety 1

  1. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,

pig-iron 1

  1. p. 174, line 1The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for railroads,

pike-fisher 1

  1. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,

pike-pointed 1

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

pilaster 1

  1. p. 155, line 14Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch,

pile 2

  1. p. 180, line 15Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth!
  2. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?

piled 3

  1. p. 72, line 7The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 245, line 21The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;

pile-driver 1

  1. p. 173, line 20The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brick-kiln,

piles 2

  1. p. 150, line 19The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod-men;
  2. p. 174, line 17Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees,

pilgrim 1

  1. p. 119, line 8You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!

pillars 1

  1. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,

pillow 2

  1. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,
  2. p. 248, line 4And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes,

pilot 6

  1. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  2. p. 80, line 28From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
  3. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  4. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  5. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
  6. p. 384, line 23[…] Shows Selected, 388 Halcyon Days, 388 Fancies at Navesink, 389 (The Pilot in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You Tides With […]

pilot-houses 1

  1. p. 130, line 28The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,

pilots 3

  1. p. 130, line 28The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,
  2. p. 164, line 4Behold, on the lakes, thy pilots at their wheels, thy oarsmen,
  3. p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,

pimpled 2

  1. p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  2. p. 170, line 12(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,

pimples 1

  1. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,

pin 1

  1. p. 161, line 11The photograph, model, watch, pin, nail, shall be created before you.

pincers 1

  1. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,

pine 10

  1. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
  2. p. 99, line 26Here, lilac, with a branch of pine,
  3. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  4. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  5. p. 148, line 26Welcome are lands of pine and oak,
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  1. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
  2. p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
  3. p. 267, line 1Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
  4. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  5. p. 379, line 13And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine,

pines 9

  1. p. 139, line 13Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,
  2. p. 227, line 4And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
  3. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  4. p. 259, line 6Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
  5. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
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  1. p. 260, line 9From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,
  2. p. 261, line 12Loud in the pines and cedars dim,
  3. p. 262, line 20There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
  4. p. 317, line 12I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,

pine-trees 1

  1. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,

piney 2

  1. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
  2. 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;)

pining 1

  1. p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.

pinion'd 1 today: pinioned

  1. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,

pinioned see pinion'd

pinions 3

  1. p. 204, line 27Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions,
  2. p. 216, line 17Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
  3. p. 347, line 10As a strong bird on pinions free,

pink 3

  1. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  2. p. 256, line 16Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,
  3. p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,

pink-faint 1

  1. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,

pinks 2

  1. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
  2. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,

pink-tinged 1

  1. p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!

pinnacled 1

  1. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!

pinnacles 4

  1. p. 12, line 30Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles,
  2. p. 114, line 7I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,
  3. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,

pins 1

  1. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,

pint 1

  1. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,

pioneer 1

  1. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,

pioneer-caps 1

  1. p. 354, line 24I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,

pioneers 52

  1. p. 183, line 8Pioneers! O pioneers!
  2. p. 183, line 12Pioneers! O pioneers!
  3. p. 183, line 16Pioneers! O pioneers!
  4. p. 183, line 20Pioneers! O pioneers!
  5. p. 183, line 24Pioneers! O pioneers!
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  1. p. 183, line 28Pioneers! O pioneers!
  2. p. 183, line 32Pioneers! O pioneers!
  3. p. 184, line 4Pioneers! O pioneers!
  4. p. 184, line 8Pioneers! O pioneers!
  5. p. 184, line 12Pioneers! O pioneers!
  6. p. 184, line 16Pioneers! O pioneers!
  7. p. 184, line 20Pioneers! O pioneers!
  8. p. 184, line 24Pioneers! O pioneers!
  9. p. 184, line 28Pioneers! O pioneers!
  10. p. 184, line 32Pioneers! O pioneers!
  11. p. 185, line 4Pioneers! O pioneers!
  12. p. 185, line 8Pioneers! O pioneers!
  13. p. 185, line 12Pioneers! O pioneers!
  14. p. 185, line 16Pioneers! O pioneers!
  15. p. 185, line 20Pioneers! O pioneers!
  16. p. 185, line 24Pioneers! O pioneers!
  17. p. 185, line 28Pioneers! O pioneers!
  18. p. 185, line 32Pioneers! O pioneers!
  19. p. 185, line 36Pioneers! O pioneers!
  20. p. 186, line 4Pioneers! O pioneers!
  21. p. 186, line 8Pioneers! O pioneers!

pious 4

  1. p. 144, line 21Something far away from a puny and pious life!
  2. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  3. p. 320, line 11With majestic limbs and pious beaming eyes,
  4. p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,

pipe 2

  1. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  2. p. 229, line 15Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?

pipes 2

  1. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  2. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.

piping 3

  1. p. 208, line 2Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing,
  2. p. 228, line 22I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds,
  3. p. 229, line 15Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?

pirates 2

  1. p. 118, line 9The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,
  2. p. 154, line 10Served the long distant Kelt, served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,

pismire 1

  1. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,

pistol 2

  1. p. 35, line 6I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.
  2. p. 293, line 12(Convict forgetting prison, keeper his loaded pistol,)

pistols 1

  1. p. 183, line 7Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?

pit 1

  1. p. 296, line 15This film of Satan's seething pit,

pitch'd 3 today: pitched

  1. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  2. p. 233, line 19Meanwhile the British manoeuvr'd to draw us out for a pitch'd battle,
  3. p. 233, line 20But we dared not trust the chances of a pitch'd battle.

pitched see pitch'd

pitchfork 2

  1. p. 155, line 15Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack-plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
  2. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,

pitching 1

  1. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,

pitch-pine 1

  1. p. 139, line 18The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees, the flames with the black smoke from the pitch-pine curling and rising;

pitchy 1

  1. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,

piteous 1

  1. p. 279, line 25O you regiments so piteous, with your mortal diarrhoea, with your fever,

pitted 1

  1. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,

pity 2

  1. p. 292, line 1O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  2. p. 293, line 22O sight of pity, shame and dole!

pivots 1

  1. p. 179, line 22My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,

placard 1

  1. p. 158, line 14Placard " Removed " and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus,

place 71

  1. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
  2. p. 17, line 13Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
  3. p. 20, line 26I stand in my place with my own day here.
  4. p. 37, line 26They do not hasten, each man hits in his place.
  5. p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
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  1. p. 42, line 24And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  2. p. 42, line 25(The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,
  3. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
  4. p. 42, line 27The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
  5. p. 59, line 1I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest,
  6. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  7. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  8. p. 79, line 5Missing me one place search another,
  9. p. 84, line 13She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
  10. p. 84, line 19The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,
  11. p. 85, line 7Each has his or her place in the procession.
  12. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  13. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  14. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  15. p. 119, line 13All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
  16. p. 130, line 7It avails not, time nor place—distance avails not,
  17. p. 131, line 15Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not,
  18. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  19. p. 143, line 16O to go back to the place where I was born,
  20. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,
  21. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
  22. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
  23. p. 152, line 14Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
  24. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  25. p. 152, line 16Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest,
  26. p. 152, line 17Nor the place of the most numerous population.
  27. p. 152, line 21Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
  28. p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
  29. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  30. p. 175, line 12Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour,
  31. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  32. p. 186, line 14Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
  33. p. 188, line 7A GREAT year and place,
  34. p. 207, line 14All distances of place however wide,
  35. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  36. p. 238, line 6Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
  37. p. 269, line 11Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad,
  38. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  39. p. 270, line 25The place is august, the terms obdurate.
  40. p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
  41. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  42. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  43. p. 301, line 16The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
  44. p. 318, line 23Cold earth, the place of graves.)
  45. p. 327, line 6He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  46. p. 331, line 12The universe is duly in order, every thing is in its place,
  47. p. 331, line 13What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place,
  48. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  49. p. 340, line 24And I found that every place was a burial-place;
  50. p. 378, line 17For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,
  51. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;
  52. p. 401, line 5How changed the place—all the old land-marks gone—the parents dead;
  53. p. 408, line 23[…] fields south of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers […]
  54. p. 409, line 17Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,
  55. p. 415, line 15WELCOME, Brazilian brother—thy ample place is ready;
  56. p. 426, line 19[…] any thing, or any results.) In the second place, the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and […]
  57. p. 427, line 1[…] America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense […]
  58. p. 436, line 35[…] and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis […]

placed 1

  1. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,

places 15

  1. p. 116, line 11I see the places of the sagas,
  2. p. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.
  3. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
  4. 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.
  5. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
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  1. p. 150, line 6The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,
  2. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  3. p. 180, line 3Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before,
  4. p. 184, line 22With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
  5. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  6. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  7. p. 235, line 19Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,
  8. p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
  9. p. 340, line 26The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the dead as of the living,
  10. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,

placid 5

  1. p. 54, line 20I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
  2. p. 278, line 23The high dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars,
  3. p. 307, line 8IN a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region,
  4. p. 307, line 27In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region.
  5. p. 387, line 4Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?

placing 2

  1. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,
  2. p. 283, line 14The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,

plague-swarms 1

  1. p. 120, line 3You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!

plain 7

  1. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  2. p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
  3. p. 231, line 21On the plain below recruits are drilling and exercising,
  4. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
  5. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
  6. p. 420, line 3Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,
  7. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,

plainly 11

  1. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  2. p. 114, line 6I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,
  3. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  4. p. 166, line 14But in my soul I plainly heard.
  5. p. 201, line 18Whisper'd me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
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  1. p. 392, line 4(I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,)
  2. p. 407, line 30[…] while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my brain more and […]
  3. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  4. p. 420, line 16Or plainly there to the left on the hill-tops.
  5. p. 430, line 26[…] the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake, if for no other) there […]
  6. p. 434, line 2[…] own heart only, I saw it just as plainly in others, in millions)—that only from the strong flare […]

plains 15

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  2. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
  3. p. 27, line 1Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,
  4. p. 41, line 9The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
  5. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
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  1. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,
  2. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;
  3. p. 142, line 5Nativities, climates, the grass of the great pastoral Plains,
  4. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,
  5. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  6. p. 278, line 24The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows,
  7. p. 317, line 6I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,
  8. p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,
  9. p. 352, line 17O'er Mississippi's endless course, o'er Texas' grassy plains, Kanada's woods,
  10. p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,

plaints 1

  1. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,

plan 5

  1. p. 78, line 3It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan—it is eternal life—it is Happiness.
  2. p. 160, line 16We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
  3. p. 182, line 32Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
  4. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
  5. p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;

planets 4

  1. p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
  2. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  3. p. 207, line 13All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
  4. p. 392, line 13Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain'd and chafing in those breakers,

planing-machines 1

  1. p. 174, line 12Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,

plank 4

  1. p. 17, line 3The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
  2. p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  3. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  4. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,

planks 5

  1. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  2. p. 150, line 11The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,
  3. p. 156, line 7The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
  4. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  5. p. 239, line 17Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the death-spasm sweating,

plann'd 2 today: planned

  1. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  2. p. 407, line 10[…] avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for […]

planned see plann'd

planning 2

  1. p. 58, line 17Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
  2. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?

plans 5

  1. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  2. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  3. p. 317, line 28The plans, the voyages again, the expeditions;
  4. p. 322, line 8What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
  5. p. 324, line 4My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,

plant 10

  1. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  2. p. 56, line 2Over the growing sugar, over the yellow-flower'd cotton plant, over the rice in its low moist field,
  3. p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  4. p. 89, line 20I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
  5. p. 91, line 20O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin'd man.
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  1. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  2. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  3. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  4. p. 360, line 7O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!
  5. p. 379, line 3Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,

plantation 2

  1. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  2. p. 268, line 2Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation life,

planter 1

  1. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,

planter's 1

  1. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,

planting 2

  1. p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
  2. p. 432, line 23[…] poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized […]

plants 7

  1. p. 93, line 4We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,
  2. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  3. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
  4. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  5. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  6. 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.
  7. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,

plashing 1

  1. p. 338, line 20(Or is it the plashing of tears? the measureless waters of human tears?)

plastering 1

  1. p. 162, line 25To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting,

plasters 1

  1. p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

plasticity 1

  1. p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,

plate 2

  1. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  2. p. 150, line 10The hook'd arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,

plateaus 4

  1. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
  2. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  3. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  4. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,

platform 1

  1. p. 292, line 14Whom seating on their stools beside her on the platform,

platitudes 1

  1. p. 407, line 7[…] am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such […]

Plato 2

  1. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,

Platte 1

  1. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,

plaudits 2

  1. p. 61, line 1The cries, curses, roar, the plaudits for well-aim'd shots,
  2. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,

play 27

  1. p. 11, line 23With all its angry and vehement play of causes,
  2. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  3. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  4. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  5. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
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  1. p. 84, line 1Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,
  2. p. 94, line 9I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself from my companions?
  3. p. 133, line 16Live, old life! play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
  4. p. 133, line 17Play the old role, the role that is great or small according as one makes it!
  5. p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
  6. p. 140, line 9Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
  7. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
  8. p. 152, line 8They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
  9. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
  10. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
  11. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  12. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  13. p. 224, line 2To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.
  14. p. 270, line 1He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
  15. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  16. p. 326, line 18I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!
  17. 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,
  18. p. 375, line 16How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
  19. p. 392, line 25From that great play on history's stage eterne,
  20. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
  21. p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;

play'd 3 today: played

play'd 2 · played 1

  1. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
  2. p. 132, line 17Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
  3. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)

player 1

  1. p. 357, line 25Nor war alone—thy fearful music-song, wild player, brings every sight of fear,

players 1

  1. p. 311, line 24The players playing, all the world's musicians,

playest 1

  1. p. 358, line 1O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest,

playground 1

  1. p. 295, line 26Labor and toil, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college,

playing 10

  1. p. 19, line 25One generation playing its part and passing on,
  2. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  3. p. 38, line 16And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,
  4. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  5. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
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  1. p. 112, line 14Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
  2. p. 233, line 10The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns,
  3. p. 268, line 9With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
  4. p. 311, line 24The players playing, all the world's musicians,
  5. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,

plays 11

  1. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  2. p. 37, line 24The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms,
  3. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  4. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
  5. p. 173, line 6The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
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  1. p. 235, line 3They are cut off, murderous artillery from the hills plays upon them,
  2. p. 296, line 13The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)
  3. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  4. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,
  5. p. 421, line 2After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
  6. p. 431, line 1[…] antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays, ballads—seeks not in the least to deaden or displace […]

plead 2

  1. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  2. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

pleasant 3

  1. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  2. p. 321, line 7Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.
  3. 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,

pleasantly 3

  1. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  2. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  3. p. 337, line 11Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,

pleas'd 17 today: pleased

pleas'd 15 · pleased 2

  1. p. 14, line 25BEGINNING my studies the first step pleas'd me so much,
  2. p. 14, line 28The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
  3. p. 57, line 23Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with the new and old,
  4. p. 57, line 24Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
  5. p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
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  1. p. 57, line 26Pleas'd with the tune of the choir of the whitewash'd church,
  2. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
  3. p. 95, line 9Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
  4. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
  5. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  6. 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;
  7. p. 309, line 24Listens well pleas'd.
  8. p. 379, line 16(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
  9. p. 415, line 13Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them,
  10. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;

please 7

  1. p. 44, line 16I wear my hat as I please indoors or out.
  2. p. 83, line 17All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  3. p. 137, line 13The words of true poems do not merely please,
  4. p. 158, line 12Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts,
  5. p. 246, line 29O strong dead-march you please me!
  6. p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,

pleases 1

  1. 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,

pleasest 2

  1. p. 321, line 10O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.
  2. p. 321, line 13O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,

pleasing 1

  1. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,

pleasure 15

  1. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
  2. p. 29, line 4O hand in hand—O wholesome pleasure—O one more desirer and lover!
  3. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
  4. 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?
  5. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
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  1. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  2. p. 143, line 9The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure.
  3. p. 154, line 12Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,
  4. p. 187, line 19No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
  5. 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;
  6. p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
  7. p. 276, line 25Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself,
  8. p. 335, line 6To think how much pleasure there is,
  9. p. 380, line 23While my pleasure is yet at the full I whisper So long!

pleasures 3

  1. p. 45, line 16The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
  2. p. 95, line 20From all the standards hitherto publish'd, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,
  3. p. 162, line 14The unhealthy pleasures, extravagant dissipations of the few,

pledge 2

  1. p. 167, line 17You promis'd long, we pledge, we dedicate.
  2. p. 167, line 28We pledge, we dedicate to you.

Pleiades 3

  1. p. 206, line 6Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
  2. p. 206, line 15Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
  3. p. 206, line 28Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.

plenteous 10

  1. p. 114, line 4I see plenteous waters,
  2. p. 140, line 7There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;
  3. p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
  4. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,
  5. p. 189, line 19But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
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  1. p. 230, line 19To the rescue the stalwart giant hurry his plenteous offspring,
  2. p. 279, line 26O my land's maim'd darlings, with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutch,
  3. p. 292, line 12Plenteous, well-armed, watching with vigilant eyes,)
  4. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,
  5. p. 345, line 3How plenteous! how spiritual! how resumé!

plenteousness 1

  1. p. 146, line 24The plenteousness of all, that there are no bounds,

plentiest 1

  1. p. 152, line 16Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest,

plentiful 2

  1. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,
  2. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,

plenty 9

  1. p. 31, line 16Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty,
  2. p. 42, line 23Breathe the air but leave plenty after me,
  3. p. 59, line 2We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
  4. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  5. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
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  1. p. 189, line 16(There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
  2. p. 279, line 4Thou, bathed, choked, swimming in plenty,
  3. p. 398, line 2Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;
  4. p. 427, line 10[…] decided coloring from other faiths or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to […]

plenum 1

  1. p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,

pliant 3

  1. p. 81, line 9From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing,
  2. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  3. p. 329, line 16She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and full and pliant limbs,

plodding 2

  1. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  2. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,

plot 3

  1. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  2. p. 428, line 39[…] rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it may […]
  3. p. 430, line 12[…] carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or […]

plots 6

  1. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
  2. p. 275, line 27I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for,
  3. p. 316, line 10The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions;
  4. p. 415, line 1The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas,
  5. p. 427, line 22[…] it: none of the stock ornamentation, or choice plots of love or war, or high, exceptional personages of Old-World […]
  6. p. 430, line 16[…] while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and […]

plotted 1

  1. p. 326, line 7The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,

plotting 1

  1. p. 340, line 1Aloof, dissatisfied, plotting revolt,

plough 5

  1. p. 146, line 18To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
  2. p. 146, line 19To plough land in the spring for maize,
  3. p. 155, line 11Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
  4. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
  5. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,

ploughboy's 1

  1. p. 17, line 7The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,

plougher 1

  1. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;

ploughing 5

  1. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,
  2. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  3. p. 75, line 22The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
  4. p. 222, line 9Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
  5. p. 346, line 11AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,

ploughing-machines 1

  1. p. 174, line 12Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,

ploughman 1

  1. p. 346, line 11AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,

ploughmen 1

  1. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,

ploughs 1

  1. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;

plowing 2

  1. p. 432, line 23[…] my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was […]
  2. p. 437, line 25[…] really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average fallows of humanity—not […]

pluck 6

  1. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  2. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  3. p. 85, line 25Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
  4. p. 151, line 27Muscle and pluck forever!
  5. p. 187, line 18No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
  6. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,

pluck'd 1 today: plucked

  1. p. 91, line 10And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself,

plucked see pluck'd

plucking 1

  1. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,

plum 1

  1. p. 399, line 18The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming plum and cherry;

plumb 3

  1. p. 31, line 4Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  2. p. 331, line 10The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportion'd and plumb.

plum-blows 1

  1. p. 100, line 8And stems of currants and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar,

plumed 1

  1. p. 322, line 17Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?

plumes 1

  1. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,

plummets 2

  1. p. 58, line 23My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
  2. p. 421, line 6All ages' plummets dropt to their utmost depths,

plums 1

  1. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,

plunge 1

  1. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,

plunged 1

  1. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,

plunging 3

  1. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  2. p. 266, line 22Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,

plutonic 1

  1. p. 54, line 11In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,

Po 1

  1. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,

pocket 1

  1. 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,

pocketless 1

  1. p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,

pockets 2

  1. p. 66, line 7Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  2. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,

pod 1

  1. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,

poem 21

  1. p. 10, line 20And this is ocean's poem.
  2. p. 22, line 5I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also,
  3. p. 24, line 15I will make the true poem of riches,
  4. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  5. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
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  1. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
  2. p. 122, line 17You shall be more to me than my poem.
  3. p. 148, line 11O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
  4. p. 186, line 14Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
  5. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,
  6. p. 264, line 4Chant me the poem, it said, that comes from the soul of America, chant me the carol of victory,
  7. p. 266, line 9These States are the amplest poem,
  8. p. 303, line 20The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
  9. p. 396, line 11A song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge,
  10. p. 396, line 18No picture, poem, statement, passing them to the future:)
  11. p. 399, line 3I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
  12. p. 427, line 2[…] more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  13. p. 427, line 20For grounds for " Leaves of Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in […]
  14. p. 433, line 24[…] can be no such thing as a long poem. The same thought had been haunting my mind before, but […]
  15. p. 437, line 8[…] now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be […]

poemets 1

  1. p. 408, line 8[…] reason there are too many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July […]

poems 94

  1. p. 9, line 10Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long,
  2. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
  3. p. 21, line 7I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
  4. p. 21, line 8And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
  5. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
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  1. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  2. p. 25, line 1And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
  3. p. 25, line 3I will not make poems with reference to parts,
  4. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  5. p. 28, line 8See, steamers steaming through my poems,
  6. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
  7. 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,
  8. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  9. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  10. p. 30, line 12Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
  11. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  12. p. 80, line 7Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,
  13. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  14. p. 87, line 2Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
  15. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  16. p. 89, line 28The real poems, (what we call poems being merely pictures,)
  17. p. 89, line 29The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
  18. p. 90, line 2(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
  19. p. 98, line 26Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more,
  20. p. 108, line 17And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
  21. p. 112, line 4Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
  22. p. 113, line 8I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
  23. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  24. p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
  25. p. 137, line 4The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
  26. 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,
  27. p. 137, line 12All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
  28. p. 137, line 13The words of true poems do not merely please,
  29. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  30. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.
  31. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  32. p. 137, line 20The builder, geometer, chemist, anatomist, phrenologist, artist, all these underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer.
  33. p. 137, line 21The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
  34. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  35. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  36. p. 173, line 6The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
  37. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
  38. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  39. p. 176, line 8(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,
  40. p. 194, line 12The nest of languages, the bequeather of poems, the race of eld,
  41. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  42. p. 202, line 28But that before all my arrogant poems the real Me stands yet untouch'd, untold, altogether unreach'd,
  43. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  44. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  45. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  46. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  47. p. 272, line 7Rhymes and rhymers pass away, poems distill'd from poems pass away,
  48. p. 273, line 24Through poems, pageants, shows, to form individuals.
  49. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
  50. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  51. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  52. p. 315, line 16Poems bridging the way from Life to Death, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,
  53. p. 339, line 15Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems,
  54. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
  55. p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
  56. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,
  57. p. 414, line 23Haply our New World's chieftest debt is to old poems.)
  58. p. 421, line 2After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,
  59. p. 425, line 17[…] through all discomfitures at last)—After completing my poems, I am curious to review them in the light of […]
  60. p. 427, line 30[…] every page of my verses, compared with establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the objective […]
  61. p. 428, line 33[…] any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living […]
  62. p. 431, line 1[…] The New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics […]
  63. p. 431, line 5[…] of the sun of literature is in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of […]
  64. p. 431, line 13[…] acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping […]
  65. p. 431, line 36[…] not radically changed—that in these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date […]
  66. p. 432, line 1[…] stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and […]
  67. p. 432, line 10[…] the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid […]
  68. p. 432, line 12[…] been great; but the New World needs the poems of realities and science and of the democratic average and […]
  69. p. 432, line 16[…] Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  70. p. 433, line 6[…] Sophocles, the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As […]
  71. p. 433, line 16[…] had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I always […]
  72. p. 434, line 38[…] such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems or any other writings can do for their reader is […]
  73. p. 435, line 10[…] appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and […]
  74. p. 435, line 31[…] continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of […]
  75. p. 436, line 4[…] myself before beginning) to be in spirit the poems of the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written […]
  76. p. 436, line 6[…] life.) I will want them to be the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd […]
  77. p. 437, line 24[…] the beginning, middle and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the […]
  78. p. 437, line 32[…] offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I know, have the very great advantage of chanting the […]
  79. p. 438, line 20[…] existed so needing a race of singers and poems differing from all others, and rigidly their own, as the […]
  80. p. 438, line 22[…] of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as […]

Poe's 3

  1. p. 433, line 16[…] I had among much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I […]
  2. p. 433, line 22[…] so many mansions!) But I was repaid in Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our […]
  3. p. 433, line 25[…] thought had been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it […]

poesy's 1

  1. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,

poet 30

  1. p. 21, line 30And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
  2. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  3. p. 25, line 21Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
  4. p. 45, line 15I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
  5. p. 45, line 18I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
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  1. p. 46, line 29I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
  2. p. 94, line 11I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet,
  3. p. 99, line 14And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
  4. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  5. p. 137, line 7The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
  6. p. 181, line 2Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
  7. p. 192, line 2With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
  8. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  9. p. 263, line 22But sing poet in our name,
  10. p. 269, line 9Of these States the poet is the equable man,
  11. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  12. p. 272, line 13(The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it.)
  13. p. 287, line 17For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,
  14. p. 318, line 29Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
  15. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  16. p. 402, line 21Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.
  17. p. 406, line 26[…] the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death, 417. A Persian Lesson, 418. The […]
  18. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  19. p. 416, line 16WHEN the full-grown poet came,
  20. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  21. p. 428, line 4[…] things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete […]
  22. p. 429, line 34[…] or hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very well that my […]
  23. p. 434, line 29The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of […]

poetic 10

  1. p. 288, line 22Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and undevelop'd,
  2. p. 407, line 12[…] loud call or market for my sort of poetic utterance […]
  3. p. 426, line 41[…] to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and […]
  4. p. 427, line 42[…] exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in […]
  5. p. 428, line 17[…] these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
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  1. p. 431, line 42[…] elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another […]
  2. p. 432, line 23[…] fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and […]
  3. p. 432, line 27[…] this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor […]
  4. p. 432, line 30[…] poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has […]
  5. p. 433, line 20[…] of certain pronounc'd phases of human morbidity. (The Poetic area is very spacious—has room for all—has so […]

poetical 2

  1. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  2. p. 431, line 20[…] resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our light […]

poetling 1

  1. p. 221, line 15Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,

poetry 14

  1. p. 386, line 3Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
  2. p. 427, line 14[…] seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its statements in contradistinction to the […]
  3. p. 427, line 40[…] tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But I […]
  4. p. 428, line 25[…] or any purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love […]
  5. p. 428, line 29[…] has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain […]
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  1. p. 429, line 23[…] and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable […]
  2. p. 429, line 25[…] never possible before. It is certain that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the […]
  3. p. 429, line 43[…] verbal melody and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in […]
  4. p. 430, line 28[…] readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn the argument […]
  5. p. 432, line 29[…] volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially […]
  6. p. 436, line 33[…] is nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in the […]
  7. p. 437, line 30[…] the direct or indirect threads of all the poetry of the past—are in my opinion distasteful to the […]
  8. p. 438, line 24[…] continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song […]
  9. p. 438, line 35[…] taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always (like the Homeric or Biblical canticles) the result […]

poets 28

  1. p. 9, line 13The genius of poets of old lands,
  2. p. 18, line 1POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
  3. p. 20, line 18Dead poets, philosophs, priests,
  4. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  5. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
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  1. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
  2. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
  3. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  4. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  5. p. 269, line 5Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.
  6. p. 270, line 10That, O my brethren, that is the mission of poets.
  7. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?
  8. p. 272, line 12If its poets appear it will in due time advance to meet them, there is no fear of mistake,
  9. p. 276, line 5And I saw the free souls of poets,
  10. p. 289, line 15Of their languages, governments, marriage, literature, products, games, wars, manners, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets,
  11. p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
  12. p. 316, line 10The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions;
  13. p. 339, line 15Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems,
  14. p. 347, line 14The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
  15. p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
  16. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
  17. p. 390, line 7Poets unnamed—artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs,
  18. p. 394, line 22To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,
  19. p. 403, line 9"In Cabin'd Ships," or " Thee Old Cause" or " Poets to Come"
  20. p. 428, line 38[…] controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in the past—in the Bible, religious rapture […]
  21. p. 429, line 19[…] the petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or present Europe, no matter how great their […]
  22. p. 429, line 33[…] and its gloomy or hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very […]
  23. p. 435, line 43[…] heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and […]

point 19

  1. p. 21, line 21And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
  2. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  3. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  4. p. 204, line 30Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
  5. p. 204, line 32(Myself a speck, a point on the world's floating vast.)
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  1. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
  2. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  3. p. 302, line 6The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,)
  4. p. 371, line 23From every point of the compass out of the countless graves,
  5. p. 384, line 4Mannahatta, 385 Paumanok, 385 From Montauk Point, 385 To Those Who've Fail'd, 385 A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, 386 The Bravest […]
  6. p. 425, line 31[…] Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a […]
  7. p. 426, line 22[…] from now can fully answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more […]
  8. p. 427, line 36[…] begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of view of verse; for everything else has changed. As […]
  9. p. 430, line 4[…] quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the time had come to reflect all themes […]
  10. p. 430, line 20[…] even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new […]
  11. p. 431, line 44[…] preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had not stood […]
  12. p. 433, line 27Another point had an early settlement, clearing the ground greatly. I saw […]
  13. p. 436, line 13From another point of view "Leaves of Grass" is avowedly the song of […]
  14. p. 437, line 12[…] or other existence, not only consider'd from the point of view of all, but of each […]

point-characteristics 1

  1. p. 434, line 16[…] the intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at […]

pointed 2

  1. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  2. p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,

pointing 3

  1. p. 9, line 15With finger pointing to many immortal songs,
  2. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
  3. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.

points 11

  1. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  2. p. 22, line 22These ostensible realities, politics, points?
  3. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  4. p. 233, line 22Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us,
  5. p. 267, line 24Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points,
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  1. p. 310, line 6With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
  2. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  3. p. 404, line 6So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan,
  4. p. 413, line 40[…] and file ahead of all other known in points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But […]
  5. p. 427, line 5[…] States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to be […]
  6. p. 431, line 39[…] and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as of serious, even paramount importance […]

pois'd 6 today: poised

  1. p. 38, line 2The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  4. p. 216, line 15Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
  5. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
  6. p. 393, line 24Wherever Freedom, pois'd by Toleration, sway'd by Law,

poise 1

  1. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,

poised see pois'd

poising 1

  1. p. 117, line 7I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance,

poison 1

  1. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,

poison'd 1 today: poisoned

  1. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.

poisoned see poison'd

poisoners 1

  1. p. 154, line 24Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains and the rest.

poisonous 1

  1. p. 213, line 8Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,

poisons 2

  1. p. 306, line 29Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,
  2. p. 419, line 25Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons,

poke 1

  1. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

poke-weed 1

  1. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.

polar 2

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  2. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,

Pole 1

  1. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,

policeman 2

  1. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  2. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,

policemen 1

  1. p. 220, line 20The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding, clearing the way,

polish'd 5 today: polished

  1. p. 38, line 5The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  2. p. 77, line 8I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.
  3. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?
  4. p. 434, line 40[…] merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons […]
  5. p. 438, line 37[…] national spirit, and not the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs […]

polished see polish'd

polite 2

  1. p. 128, line 11Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
  2. p. 272, line 8The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes,

political 3

  1. p. 426, line 32[…] rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both […]
  2. p. 435, line 6[…] of Western character (as consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the […]
  3. p. 438, line 26[…] give color to and define their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they […]

politician 1

  1. p. 326, line 28I am the actor, the actress, the voter, the politician,

politicians 1

  1. p. 271, line 20Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies' lands?

politics 26

  1. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  2. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;
  3. p. 22, line 22These ostensible realities, politics, points?
  4. p. 28, line 5New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
  5. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  3. p. 173, line 2Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,
  4. p. 179, line 11No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
  5. p. 180, line 5Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
  6. p. 215, line 11You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
  7. p. 218, line 8These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,
  8. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  9. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  10. p. 303, line 20The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
  11. p. 307, line 24Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them, (books, politics, poems, depart—all else departs,)
  12. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,
  13. p. 342, line 17Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains?
  14. p. 364, line 20Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
  15. p. 369, line 7Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,
  16. p. 369, line 14Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not nothing,
  17. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
  18. p. 387, line 13As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
  19. p. 388, line 19Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age, nor victories of politics or war;
  20. p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)
  21. p. 431, line 30[…] however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from […]

Poliuto 1

  1. p. 309, line 17And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)

Polo 1

  1. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,

Polynesia 2

  1. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
  2. p. 194, line 26The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,

pomp 2

  1. p. 256, line 21With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities draped in black,
  2. p. 411, line 13The pomp and hurried contest-glare and rush are done;

ponder 1

  1. p. 270, line 27He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,

ponder'd 3 today: pondered

  1. p. 9, line 9As I ponder'd in silence,
  2. p. 294, line 28With drooping lids, as waiting, ponder'd,
  3. p. 309, line 1There ponder'd, felt I,

pondered see ponder'd

pondering 5

  1. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  2. p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
  3. p. 289, line 19MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd pondering,
  4. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  5. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,

ponderings 2

  1. p. 412, line 24Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,
  2. p. 433, line 34[…] a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not be […]

ponderous 4

  1. p. 154, line 18And leans on a ponderous axe.
  2. p. 174, line 13The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray,
  3. p. 315, line 21Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)
  4. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,

ponds 1

  1. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,

pond-side 5

  1. p. 99, line 16Now along the pond-side, now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
  2. p. 100, line 3And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
  3. p. 100, line 12But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,
  4. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  5. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,

pond-snipe 1

  1. p. 49, line 14Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you!

pond-waters 1

  1. p. 95, line 18In the growth by margins of pond-waters,

pool 2

  1. p. 77, line 14Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
  2. p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!

poor 22

  1. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  2. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  3. p. 155, line 19Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
  4. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
  5. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
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  1. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
  2. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  3. p. 226, line 17This song to the soul of one poor little child.
  4. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  5. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  6. p. 243, line 1One turns to me his appealing eyes—poor boy! I never knew you,
  7. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  8. p. 284, line 27I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought,
  9. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  10. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  11. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  12. p. 312, line 27I see poor crazed Lucia's eyes' unnatural gleam,
  13. p. 324, line 27Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee.
  14. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,
  15. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,
  16. p. 339, line 20Wending my way through the homes of men, rich or poor, with the kiss of affection,
  17. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,

populace 1

  1. p. 152, line 24Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons,

popularities 1

  1. p. 271, line 8Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?

population 3

  1. p. 152, line 17Nor the place of the most numerous population.
  2. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
  3. p. 267, line 22The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,

populations 1

  1. p. 195, line 1The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are curiously here,

populous 9

  1. p. 18, line 16After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
  2. p. 86, line 6In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  3. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  4. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  5. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
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  1. p. 269, line 16In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging agriculture, arts, commerce, lighting the study of man, the soul, health, immortality, government,
  2. p. 310, line 8Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
  3. p. 319, line 22The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands,
  4. p. 411, line 36[…] day, of punctually visiting those at that time populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the […]

porch 3

  1. p. 155, line 14Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch,
  2. p. 355, line 28She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
  3. p. 415, line 14Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.

porches 1

  1. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!

pores 1

  1. p. 72, line 15Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin,

pork 3

  1. p. 26, line 5Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple and the grape!
  2. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,
  3. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

pork-packing 1

  1. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,

porpoise-hunters 1

  1. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,

port 15

  1. p. 58, line 8Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,
  2. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  3. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  4. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  5. p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!
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  1. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  2. p. 262, line 23The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
  3. p. 268, line 10And your port immovable where you stand,
  4. p. 279, line 1As some huge ship freighted to water's edge thou ridest into port,
  5. p. 330, line 13To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well-fill'd ships,
  6. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  7. p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
  8. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
  9. p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)
  10. p. 425, line 15[…] and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in a sufficient way through all discomfitures at last)—After […]

portal 1

  1. p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!

portals 1

  1. p. 376, line 13AS at thy portals also death,

portents 1

  1. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;

porter 3

  1. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,
  2. p. 220, line 8The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving;
  3. p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,

portfolio 1

  1. p. 67, line 9In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,

portions 1

  1. p. 361, line 19Standing aloof, denying portions so long,

portrait 1

  1. p. 102, line 12The friend the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest,

portraits 2

  1. p. 151, line 10The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
  2. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,

ports 3

  1. p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
  2. p. 148, line 13To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
  3. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,

Portuguese 2

  1. p. 118, line 22You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
  2. p. 319, line 32The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,

pose 1

  1. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,

posh 1

  1. p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,

position 2

  1. p. 40, line 6Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
  2. p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?

positions 3

  1. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  2. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,
  3. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;

positive 6

  1. p. 47, line 20Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
  2. p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
  3. p. 180, line 6But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
  4. p. 272, line 19People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers,
  5. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
  6. p. 340, line 17Essence of forms, life of the real identities, permanent, positive, (namely the unseen,)

positively 6

  1. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
  2. p. 370, line 8O soul, we have positively appear'd—that is enough.
  3. p. 426, line 22[…] answer. I consider the point that I have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up for […]
  4. p. 433, line 29[…] saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive […]
  5. p. 433, line 40[…] have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible […]
  6. p. 437, line 7[…] of moral America. I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in […]

possess 8

  1. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  2. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  3. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  4. p. 80, line 19I love you, O you entirely possess me,
  5. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  6. p. 206, line 14They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
  7. 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.
  8. p. 430, line 18[…] will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests of the past, it still remains to […]

possess'd 8 today: possessed

  1. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  2. p. 64, line 4In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd!
  3. p. 157, line 15She is silent, she is possess'd of herself, they do not offend her,
  4. p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?
  5. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  6. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  7. p. 413, line 40[…] evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead of all other known in […]
  8. p. 426, line 34[…] those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special […]

possessed see possess'd

possesses 4

  1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  2. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  3. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,

possessing 2

  1. p. 177, line 18Underneath these possessing words that never fail.
  2. p. 432, line 19[…] may be the garrulity of advancing age is possessing me—some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and […]

possession 6

  1. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  2. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  3. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,
  4. p. 287, line 27But for all this Liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel enter'd into full possession.
  5. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.
  6. p. 434, line 42[…] and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing […]

possessions 1

  1. p. 278, line 29Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions,

possessor 1

  1. p. 432, line 28[…] Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo volume (I […]

possessors 1

  1. p. 319, line 30Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,

possibilities 1

  1. p. 175, line 5In them the development good—in them all themes, hints, possibilities.

possible 3

  1. p. 291, line 20Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,
  2. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  3. p. 429, line 25[…] limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is certain that a poetry of absolute faith […]

possibly 4

  1. p. 98, line 7But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares,
  2. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  3. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  4. p. 429, line 35[…] know very well that my "Leaves" could not possibly have emerged or been fashion'd or completed, from any other […]

post-and-rail 1

  1. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,

posted 2

  1. p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
  2. p. 378, line 1Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,

postpone 2

  1. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  2. p. 121, line 2Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

postponed 1

  1. p. 276, line 24Let the old propositions be postponed,

postponements 1

  1. p. 132, line 11Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting,

postponing 1

  1. p. 404, line 15Shunning, postponing severance—seeking to ward off the last word ever so little,

posts 5

  1. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  2. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
  3. p. 156, line 13The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride's bed,

postures 2

  1. p. 150, line 12Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,
  2. p. 239, line 14Faces, varieties, postures beyond description, most in obscurity, some of them dead,

potato 4

  1. p. 149, line 3Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white potato and sweet potato,
  2. p. 282, line 10Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs;
  3. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,

potatoes 1

  1. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,

potato's 1

  1. p. 286, line 16Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,

potencies 1

  1. p. 418, line 24(Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,)

potent 4

  1. p. 79, line 8Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
  2. p. 92, line 27Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,
  3. p. 324, line 9The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
  4. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,

Potomac 3

  1. p. 139, line 2Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valleys of the Potomac and Rappahannock, and the valleys of the Roanoke and Delaware,
  2. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
  3. p. 366, line 14Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac!

Potomac's 1

  1. p. 366, line 6BY broad Potomac's shore, again old tongue,

pots 1

  1. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,

poultry 1

  1. p. 286, line 14The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs,

pound 3

  1. p. 43, line 11I beat and pound for the dead,
  2. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,
  3. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.

pounding 3

  1. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  2. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
  3. p. 246, line 13I hear the great drums pounding,

pour 11

  1. p. 46, line 7Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  2. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  3. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  4. p. 197, line 23Pour down your warmth, great sun!
  5. p. 223, line 26I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
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  1. p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
  2. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
  3. p. 250, line 19Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.
  4. p. 259, line 5Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
  5. p. 270, line 19The battle-front forms amid the smoke—the volleys pour incessant from the line,
  6. p. 314, line 27Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!

pour'd 7 today: poured

  1. 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,
  2. p. 145, line 3The furnace, the hot liquid pour'd out and running.
  3. p. 198, line 13He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.
  4. p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
  5. p. 256, line 27With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour'd around the coffin,
  6. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  7. 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,

poured see pour'd

pouring 11

  1. p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  2. p. 228, line 16Long I roam'd the woods of the north, long I watch'd Niagara pouring,
  3. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  4. p. 232, line 7But suddenly pouring about me here on every side,
  5. p. 257, line 11With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
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  1. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  2. p. 310, line 21You undertone of rivers, roar of pouring cataracts,
  3. p. 356, line 9Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,
  4. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  5. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)

pouring-in 1

  1. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.

pours 4

  1. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  2. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  3. p. 196, line 3The box-lid is but perceptibly open'd, nevertheless the perfume pours copiously out of the whole box.
  4. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.

poverties 1

  1. p. 364, line 1AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,

poverty 6

  1. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
  2. p. 128, line 25He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
  3. p. 288, line 11In defeat, poverty, misconception, imprisonment—for they too are great.
  4. p. 320, line 21Behold his dejection, poverty, death.
  5. p. 320, line 23Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?
  6. p. 420, line 25I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.

powder 3

  1. p. 147, line 25Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried,
  2. p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
  3. 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,

powder'd 1 today: powdered

  1. p. 54, line 12In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,

powdered see powder'd

powder-magazine 1

  1. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.

powder-parcels 1

  1. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,

powders 1

  1. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,

powder-smoke 2

  1. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
  2. p. 377, line 8(As the last gun ceased, but the scent of the powder-smoke linger'd,)

power 33

  1. p. 9, line 6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
  2. p. 9, line 12Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
  3. p. 14, line 26The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
  4. p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  5. p. 74, line 23The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power, but in his own right,
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  1. p. 84, line 20He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
  2. p. 108, line 4Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
  3. p. 125, line 17Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements,
  4. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
  5. p. 143, line 10O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
  6. p. 151, line 26The power of personality just or unjust.
  7. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  8. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  9. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  10. p. 212, line 12The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,
  11. p. 272, line 23Justice, health, self-esteem, clear the way with irresistible power;
  12. p. 274, line 15Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me,
  13. p. 281, line 3The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility.
  14. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
  15. p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
  16. p. 297, line 8Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
  17. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  18. p. 306, line 30Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,
  19. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  20. p. 318, line 7Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty,
  21. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  22. p. 359, line 10Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,
  23. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  24. p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
  25. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  26. p. 412, line 5Put on the old ship all her power to-day!
  27. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,
  28. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

powerful 14

  1. p. 20, line 21Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
  2. p. 147, line 19To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
  3. p. 161, line 24And here shall ye inhabit powerful Matrons!
  4. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  5. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
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  1. p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
  2. p. 255, line 13O powerful western fallen star!
  3. p. 262, line 6As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
  4. p. 264, line 5And strike up the marches of Libertad, marches more powerful yet,
  5. p. 264, line 15We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
  6. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  7. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  8. p. 346, line 2From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house,
  9. p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain to clip, conform […]

powerfulest 1

  1. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,

powerless 2

  1. p. 255, line 16O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!
  2. p. 310, line 24Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless,

powers 4

  1. p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.
  2. p. 276, line 3I thrill'd with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me,
  3. p. 386, line 12This latent mine—these unlaunch'd voices—passionate powers,
  4. p. 425, line 26[…] finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations of […]

powowing 1 today: powwowing

  1. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

powwowing see powowing

practical 9

  1. p. 160, line 18A keep for life for practical invention.
  2. p. 161, line 2In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization,
  3. p. 162, line 1Practical, peaceful life, the people's life, the People themselves,
  4. p. 162, line 32The old, old practical burdens, interests, joys,
  5. p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?
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  1. p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
  2. p. 376, line 20To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,
  3. p. 425, line 7[…] the actualities away back past, with all their practical excitations gone. How the soul loves to float amid such […]
  4. p. 427, line 27[…] especially in each of their countless examples and practical occupations in the United States to-day […]

practice 2

  1. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  2. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?

practis'd 2 today: practised

  1. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
  2. p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?

practised see practis'd

prairie 10

  1. p. 57, line 9Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  2. p. 255, line 4The prairie draws me close, as the father to bosom broad the son,
  3. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  4. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,
  5. p. 281, line 13Prairie, orchard, and yellow grain of the North,
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  1. p. 347, line 17But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of an Illinois prairie,
  2. p. 368, line 14Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
  3. p. 384, line 59[…] Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight […]
  4. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  5. p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;

prairie-boy 1

  1. p. 250, line 11O TAN-FACED prairie-boy,

prairie-dog 1

  1. p. 39, line 1The sharp-hoof'd moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,

prairie-grass 1

  1. p. 107, line 8THE prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,

prairie-life 1

  1. p. 65, line 15The mountains? prairie-life, bush-life? or sailor from the sea?

prairies 24

  1. p. 20, line 4Chants of the prairies,
  2. p. 26, line 24Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
  3. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  4. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
  5. p. 149, line 4Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
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  1. p. 185, line 25Minstrels latent on the prairies!
  2. p. 221, line 21Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
  3. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  4. p. 230, line 18I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio's waters and of Indiana,
  5. p. 254, line 26To the plains of the poems of heroes, to the prairies spreading wide,
  6. p. 258, line 5Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the prairies meeting,
  7. p. 258, line 22And ever the far-spreading prairies cover'd with grass and corn.
  8. p. 261, line 6Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
  9. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  10. p. 286, line 7The grass of spring covers the prairies,
  11. p. 310, line 14Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies,
  12. p. 322, line 29Of you O prairies! of you gray rocks!
  13. p. 344, line 22NIGHT on the prairies,
  14. p. 359, line 21Launch'd o'er the prairies wide, across the lakes,
  15. p. 375, line 30As I wander'd over the prairies,
  16. p. 386, line 4Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
  17. p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
  18. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  19. p. 414, line 10I feel the sky, the prairies vast—I feel the mighty northern lakes,

prairie-scent 1

  1. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,

prais'd 1 today: praised

  1. p. 260, line 18Prais'd be the fathomless universe,

praise 12

  1. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  2. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  3. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  4. p. 260, line 20And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
  5. p. 269, line 22His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
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  1. p. 299, line 2(O admirers, praise not me—compliment not me—you make me wince,
  2. p. 304, line 4OTHERS may praise what they like;
  3. p. 304, line 5But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,
  4. p. 376, line 8I praise with electric voice,
  5. p. 386, line 13Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,

praised see prais'd

praises 1

  1. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,

praising 1

  1. p. 374, line 20Natural life of me faithfully praising things,

prattled 1

  1. p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,

pray 1

  1. p. 44, line 17Why should I pray? why should I venerate and be ceremonious?

prayer 6

  1. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
  2. p. 70, line 1To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
  3. p. 222, line 20Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer,
  4. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  5. p. 386, line 13Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,
  6. p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,

prayers 2

  1. p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
  2. p. 323, line 27Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth,

preach 1

  1. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.

preach'd 1 today: preached

  1. p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,

preached see preach'd

preacher 4

  1. p. 57, line 27Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
  2. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.
  3. p. 175, line 18When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  4. p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,

preachers 1

  1. p. 350, line 7Thee in thy democratic fêtes en-masse, thy high original festivals, operas, lecturers, preachers,

preaches 1

  1. p. 175, line 18When the script preaches instead of the preacher,

preaching 2

  1. p. 129, line 7I give you myself before preaching or law;
  2. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?

preceded 2

  1. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
  2. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,

precedence 2

  1. p. 153, line 1Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
  2. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,

precedent 4

  1. p. 196, line 9Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
  2. p. 379, line 2Of what underlies the precedent songs—of my aims in them,
  3. p. 384, line 71[…] the Greek's Signal Flame, 402 The Dismantled Ship, 403 Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, 403 An Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After […]
  4. p. 403, line 6Now precedent songs, farewell—by every name farewell,