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.

Q

quadrangular 1

  1. p. 55, line 22By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts, camping with lumbermen,

quadriennial 1

  1. p. 391, line 17(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)

quadrillions 1

  1. p. 73, line 8A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient,

quadroon 1

  1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,

quadrupeds 1

  1. p. 54, line 7And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,

quahaug 1 today: quahog

  1. p. 52, line 6If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.

quahog see quahaug

quail 1

  1. p. 56, line 9Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,

quaint 1

  1. p. 292, line 16In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn.

quaker 2

  1. p. 42, line 20A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker,
  2. p. 355, line 27She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.

quakeress 1

  1. p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,

qualify 1

  1. p. 432, line 9[…] to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of […]

qualities 7

  1. p. 22, line 1I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races,
  2. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
  3. p. 84, line 20He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
  4. p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
  5. p. 152, line 2And nothing endures but personal qualities.
  6. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  7. p. 214, line 1FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,

quality 10

  1. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  2. p. 109, line 21Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
  3. p. 269, line 12He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less,
  4. p. 274, line 10I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
  5. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
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  1. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  2. p. 413, line 40[…] ahead of all other known in points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have […]
  3. p. 429, line 13[…] without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and quality in the mind. Think of the United States to-day—the […]
  4. p. 430, line 3[…] and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view […]

quarrels 1

  1. p. 157, line 14Oaths, quarrels, hiccupp'd songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,

quarrelsome 1

  1. p. 283, line 8And the friendly boys that pass'd, and the quarrelsome boys,

quart 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,

quarter 2

  1. p. 62, line 23The other asks if we demand quarter?
  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,

quarter-deck 1

  1. p. 63, line 16The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet,

quarters 1

  1. p. 232, line 1But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters,

quartet 1

  1. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;

queen 2

  1. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  2. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,

queens 1

  1. p. 155, line 1They spirt no more the blood of European nobles, they clasp no more the necks of queens.

queer 3

  1. p. 160, line 4I candidly confess a queer, queer race, of novel fashion,
  2. p. 400, line 5A queer old savage man, a fighter under Washington himself,

quell 1

  1. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.

quell'd 3 today: quelled

  1. p. 251, line 25Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell'd and defeated.
  2. p. 287, line 9That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
  3. p. 306, line 16Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,

quelled see quell'd

quench'd 2 today: quenched

  1. p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
  2. p. 385, line 20Quench'd by an early death.

quenched see quench'd

quenchless 2

  1. p. 17, line 18I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O quenchless, indispensable fire!)
  2. p. 182, line 30Give me, give him or her I love this quenchless faith,

Queries 1

  1. p. 384, line 11[…] As I Sit Writing Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion […]

querilities 1

  1. p. 386, line 19Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,

querulous 1

  1. p. 121, line 3Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,

query 1

  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,

quest 2

  1. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  2. p. 357, line 3Arm'd knights go forth to redress wrongs, some in quest of the holy Graal;

question 10

  1. p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
  2. p. 69, line 9But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
  3. p. 101, line 14I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave,
  4. p. 111, line 19How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
  5. p. 215, line 7The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
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  1. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  2. p. 381, line 23Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
  3. p. 428, line 26[…] attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms […]
  4. p. 430, line 29[…] the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn the argument over and […]
  5. p. 436, line 24[…] literature. I am not going to argue the question by itself; it does not stand by itself. The vitality […]

question'd 1 today: questioned

  1. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.

questioned see question'd

questioning 5

  1. p. 265, line 10I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,
  2. p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
  3. p. 314, line 30And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
  4. p. 353, line 6The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
  5. p. 394, line 13What curious questioning glances—glints of love!

questionings 4

  1. p. 65, line 10Continue your annotations, continue your questionings.
  2. p. 131, line 18I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
  3. p. 318, line 16With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
  4. p. 433, line 28[…] I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own […]

questions 11

  1. p. 74, line 9You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
  2. p. 124, line 11The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions,
  3. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
  4. p. 190, line 7Let others dispose of questions, I dispose of nothing, I arouse unanswerable questions,
  5. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,
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  1. p. 215, line 1O ME! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
  2. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  3. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  4. p. 434, line 37[…] Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems or any other […]
  5. p. 438, line 2[…] said to the latter, in answer to their questions (as to what school the work implied or belong'd,) "I […]

quick 9

  1. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,
  2. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  3. p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
  4. p. 131, line 1The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,
  5. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
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  1. p. 210, line 25Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
  2. p. 233, line 8Jauntily forward they went with quick step toward Gowanus' waters,
  3. p. 283, line 17The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
  4. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!

quick-broken 1

  1. p. 284, line 3The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,

quick-ear'd 1

  1. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,

quicker 1

  1. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.

quick-folded 1

  1. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,

quickly 8

  1. p. 35, line 13The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
  2. p. 51, line 16I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears,
  3. p. 54, line 19I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
  4. p. 184, line 22With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill'd,
  5. p. 237, line 8Open the envelope quickly,
  6. p. 243, line 8In mercy come quickly.)
  7. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  8. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,

quicksand 2

  1. p. 342, line 13QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
  2. p. 403, line 12Or " Captain! My Captain! " " Kosmos," "Quicksand Years," or "Thoughts,"

quick-temper'd 1

  1. p. 334, line 19He was a good fellow, free-mouth'd, quick-temper'd, not bad-looking,

quid 1

  1. p. 39, line 28He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;

quiet 10

  1. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  2. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  3. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  4. p. 222, line 8Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
  5. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
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  1. p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
  2. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  3. p. 302, line 7The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets,
  4. p. 325, line 18How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles.
  5. p. 408, line 2[…] to move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if […]

quietest 1

  1. p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!

quietly 3

  1. p. 283, line 14The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,
  2. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  3. p. 344, line 12I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,

quill 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,

quintillions 3

  1. p. 58, line 21And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
  2. p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,

quite 13

  1. p. 82, line 13The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, native-born, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
  2. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,
  3. p. 234, line 7Quite within hearing, feasting, clinking wineglasses together over their victory.
  4. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
  5. p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
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  1. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  2. p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
  3. p. 409, line 16But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,
  4. p. 426, line 36[…] special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting through my previous […]
  5. p. 427, line 12[…] would sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and […]
  6. p. 427, line 32[…] still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude of the ego, the one chanting or talking […]
  7. p. 431, line 31[…] politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all […]
  8. p. 435, line 34[…] that forms an appearance only; the reality is quite different. The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing […]

quits 2

  1. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.

quivering 3

  1. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  2. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  3. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,