Concordance

raccoon 1

1. p. 360, line 13The humming-bird, the wild turkey, the raccoon, the opossum;

race 53

1. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
2. p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
3. p. 40, line 4The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
4. p. 40, line 22The regatta is spread on the bay, the race is begun, (how the white sails sparkle!)
5. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.

race-course 1

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

racers 1

1. p. 392, line 5Thy troops of white-maned racers racing to the goal,

races 17

1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
2. p. 11, line 14Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands,
3. p. 22, line 1I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races,
4. p. 137, line 23They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
5. p. 183, line 11We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,

raciness 1

1. p. 434, line 33[…] the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of coloring? The last […]

racing 1

1. p. 392, line 5Thy troops of white-maned racers racing to the goal,

rack 1

1. p. 262, line 22The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,

rack'd 2 today: racked

1. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
2. p. 324, line 33My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd,

racking 1

1. p. 364, line 8You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!

radiant 3

1. p. 206, line 28Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
2. p. 312, line 30Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand,
3. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,

radiate 1

1. p. 433, line 31[…] trunk and centre whence the answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far […]

radiating 1

1. p. 318, line 13Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,

radiations 1

1. p. 362, line 24It and its radiations constantly glide.

radical 2

1. p. 430, line 41[…] precedes or opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the […]
2. p. 434, line 42[…] religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been […]

radically 1

1. p. 431, line 36[…] moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in these the old poems apply to our […]

radius 1

1. p. 429, line 32[…] removes, the material facts of their country and radius, with the coloring of the moods of humanity at the […]

rafters 1

1. p. 56, line 13Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

rafts 1

1. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.

raftsman 1

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

raftsmen 2

1. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
2. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,

rage 7

1. p. 100, line 15Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,
2. p. 110, line 14SOMETIMES with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn'd love,
3. p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
4. p. 253, line 16Leave me your pulses of rage—bequeath them to me—fill me with currents convulsive,
5. p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
6. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
7. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,

raged 1

1. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,

rages 2

1. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
2. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,

ragged 1

1. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

raging 4

1. p. 91, line 14What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
2. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
3. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,
4. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,

rags 2

1. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
2. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.

raid 1

1. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,

rail 4

1. p. 59, line 13My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs,
2. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
3. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
4. p. 155, line 12Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,

railroad 6

1. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
2. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
3. p. 267, line 24Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points,
4. p. 315, line 23The New by its mighty railroad spann'd,
5. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,
6. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,

railroads 6

1. p. 115, line 9I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth,
2. p. 128, line 12In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
3. p. 156, line 3Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,
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. 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,
6. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;

rails 3

1. p. 60, line 5I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the ooze of my skin,
2. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
3. 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?

rain 19

1. p. 19, line 3Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
2. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
3. p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
4. p. 53, line 7Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
5. p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,

raindrops 1

1. p. 142, line 14O for the dropping of raindrops in a song!

rain-emitting 1

1. p. 104, line 16O nor down-balls nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,

rain-proof 1

1. p. 73, line 17My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,

rains 2

1. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
2. p. 277, line 1AS consequent from store of summer rains,

rais'd 13 today: raised

rais'd 11 · raised 2

1. p. 18, line 15Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother,
2. p. 65, line 13Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian?
3. 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.
4. p. 217, line 7With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
5. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,

raise 13

1. p. 14, line 14I raise the present on the past,
2. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
3. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
4. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
5. p. 97, line 6I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States,

raising 1

1. p. 195, line 12For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant,

rake 1

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

raking 1

1. p. 62, line 12Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.

ramble 2

1. p. 38, line 13My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble,
2. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,

rambling 1

1. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,

rammer 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,

ran 2

1. p. 37, line 12The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,
2. p. 232, line 8And below there where the boys were drilling, and up the slopes they ran,

ranch 1

1. p. 42, line 14At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch,

random 8

1. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
2. p. 91, line 10And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself,
3. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
4. 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,
5. p. 149, line 27The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;
6. p. 201, line 28With the thousand responsive songs at random,
7. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
8. p. 381, line 19At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,

rang 1

1. p. 292, line 3RANG the refrain along the hall, the prison,

range 10

1. p. 57, line 13Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the high weeds,
2. p. 114, line 5I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,
3. p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
4. p. 168, line 13From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah,
5. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,

ranged 2

1. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
2. p. 214, line 14When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

rangers 1

1. p. 61, line 17They were the glory of the race of rangers,

ranges 4

1. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,
2. p. 431, line 30[…] to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have been quite eliminated from the Eastern […]
3. p. 435, line 42[…] in my pages from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets […]
4. p. 435, line 45[…] indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of […]

ranging 1

1. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,

rank 10

1. p. 42, line 19Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
2. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
3. p. 94, line 3Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,
4. p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
5. p. 268, line 16An offal rank, to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.)

ranklings 1

1. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,

ranks 25

1. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
2. p. 137, line 23They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
3. p. 184, line 21On and on the compact ranks,
4. p. 185, line 23Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united,
5. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,

ranting 1

1. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,

rapid 8

1. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
2. p. 114, line 2I see the curious rapid change of the light and shade,
3. p. 131, line 9I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,
4. p. 164, line 10Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents,
5. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
6. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
7. p. 253, line 21The rapid march, the life of the camp,
8. p. 270, line 12Songs of the rapid arming and the march,

rapidly 7

1. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
2. p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,
3. p. 273, line 23It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories,
4. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,
5. p. 309, line 26Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,
6. p. 370, line 17What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
7. p. 418, line 11The blossoms rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love,

rapids 2

1. p. 277, line 6Life's ever-modern rapids first, (soon, soon to blend,
2. p. 389, line 1Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,

rapine 1

1. p. 357, line 26The deeds of ruthless brigands, rapine, murder—I hear the cries for help!

Rappahannock 1

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,

rapport 9

1. p. 10, line 12In full rapport at last.
2. p. 120, line 10I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
3. p. 265, line 4All comes by the body, only health puts you rapport with the universe.
4. p. 298, line 11Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
5. p. 309, line 22Acknowledging rapport however far remov'd,

rapt 14

1. p. 13, line 9Exaltè, rapt, ecstatic,
2. p. 18, line 21Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
3. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
4. p. 184, line 11O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
5. p. 194, line 13Florid with blood, pensive, rapt with musings, hot with passion,

rapture 1

1. p. 428, line 39[…] war, in the past—in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive […]

rapturous 1

1. p. 252, line 25No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery's rapturous verse,

rare 4

1. 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,
2. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
3. p. 324, line 24Light rare untellable, lighting the very light,
4. p. 436, line 32[…] or individuals all times, there is nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature […]

rarer 1

1. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,

rasping 1

1. p. 392, line 15And rhythmic rasping of thy sands and waves,

rate 8

1. 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!
2. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
3. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
4. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
5. p. 227, line 20Insensate! insensate! (yet I at any rate chant you,) O banner!
6. p. 433, line 22[…] Poe's prose by the idea that (at any rate for our occasions, our day) there can be no such […]

rather 7

1. p. 75, line 1Wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
2. p. 138, line 3They prepare for death, yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
3. p. 158, line 19Or rather to her long-nurs'd inclination,
4. p. 338, line 25(Some parturition rather, some solemn immortal birth;
5. p. 400, line 6(Large, brave, cleanly, hot-blooded, no talker, rather spiritualistic,
6. p. 407, line 13In answer, or rather defiance, to that kind of well-put interrogation, here comes this […]
7. p. 426, line 36[…] thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that had been flitting […]

ratified 2

1. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
2. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,

rational 1

1. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,

rats 2

1. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
2. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

rattle 4

1. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
2. p. 222, line 17Then rattle quicker, heavier drums—you bugles wilder blow.
3. p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
4. p. 279, line 22Pass—then rattle drums again,

rattles 2

1. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
2. p. 334, line 13Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,

rattlesnake 2

1. p. 55, line 28Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,
2. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,

ravening 2

1. p. 206, line 1While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
2. p. 206, line 13The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,

ravenous 1

1. p. 419, line 23Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;

ravine 2

1. p. 366, line 19Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,
2. p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,

ravines 1

1. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,

raving 1

1. p. 325, line 1Is it the prophet's thought I speak, or am I raving?

ray 4

1. p. 182, line 5Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
2. p. 324, line 23With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,
3. p. 352, line 21Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,
4. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.

ray'd 1 today: rayed

1. p. 309, line 18Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,

rays 2

1. p. 145, line 6To behold his calmness—to be warm'd in the rays of his smile!
2. p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!

razor-bill'd 1

1. p. 54, line 18In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,

razory 1

1. p. 328, line 14The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind, the wreck-guns sound,

reach 12

1. p. 50, line 12My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
2. p. 73, line 26It is not far, it is within reach,
3. p. 77, line 8I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.
4. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
5. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,

reach'd 8 today: reached

1. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
2. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
3. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
4. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
5. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
6. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
7. p. 354, line 22Always the shadow in front, always the reach'd hand bringing up the laggards.

reachers 1

1. p. 55, line 4Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,

reaches 2

1. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,
2. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,

reaching 9

1. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
2. p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
3. p. 30, line 6A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
4. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
5. p. 58, line 6By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

reachings 1

1. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,

read 21

1. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
2. p. 14, line 18WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
3. p. 28, line 20Hear the loud echoes of my songs there—read the hints come at last.
4. p. 30, line 11Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
5. p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

reader 7

1. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
2. p. 408, line 6[…] there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd old shell... .... . .... (Reader, you must allow a little fun here—for one reason […]
3. p. 408, line 30[…] of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial […]
4. p. 434, line 21[…] and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always have his or her part to do, just […]
5. p. 434, line 24[…] theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to […]
6. p. 434, line 39[…] or any other writings can do for their reader is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something […]
7. p. 438, line 29[…] evening of my day I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]

readers 2

1. p. 398, line 16(You distant, dim unknown—or young or old—countless, unspecified, readers belov'd,
2. p. 412, line 24Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,

readiest 1

1. p. 171, line 10It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.

readily 2

1. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
2. p. 434, line 9[…] gloom, despair, hopes again arous'd, courage evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic and […]

reading 5

1. p. 98, line 23Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
2. p. 113, line 16I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
3. p. 295, line 21Reading, conversing.
4. p. 429, line 12[…] should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt reading the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and […]
5. p. 429, line 44[…] works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all […]

readjustment 2

1. p. 427, line 35[…] time for America, above all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of view of verse […]
2. p. 430, line 28[…] for no other) there must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question […]

ready 23

1. p. 17, line 4The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
2. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
3. p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
4. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
5. p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,

real 56

1. p. 14, line 7The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself,
2. p. 14, line 22Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
3. p. 19, line 12How curious! how real!
4. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
5. p. 22, line 17Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;

realism 1

1. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,

realities 10

1. p. 13, line 20The true realities, eidólons.
2. p. 22, line 22These ostensible realities, politics, points?
3. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
4. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
5. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,

reality 14

1. p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
2. p. 97, line 14That you beyond them come forth to remain, the real reality,
3. p. 111, line 4Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
4. p. 123, line 24Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
5. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?

realization 4

1. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
2. p. 88, line 3The exquisite realization of health;
3. p. 124, line 1Here is realization,
4. p. 178, line 14The soul's realization and determination still inheriting,

realize 3

1. p. 146, line 23O to realize space!
2. 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.
3. p. 408, line 28[…] the future—will this vast rich Union ever realize what itself cost, back there after all?—those hecatombs of […]

realized 4

1. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
2. p. 361, line 23(This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be realized,
3. p. 435, line 38[…] to Shakspere inclusive can happily never again be realized—but the elements of courageous and lofty manhood are unchanged […]

realizes 1

1. p. 124, line 2Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,

realizing 1

1. p. 112, line 4Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,

really 43

1. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
2. p. 12, line 20But really build eidólons.
3. p. 14, line 21(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
4. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
5. 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?

realm 2

1. p. 309, line 20While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
2. p. 350, line 13Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,

realms 4

1. p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
2. p. 320, line 30To realms of budding bibles.
3. p. 350, line 13Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
4. p. 420, line 20To span vast realms of space and time,

reap'd 1 today: reaped

1. p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,

reaping 1

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

reaping-machines 2

1. p. 174, line 12Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,
2. p. 281, line 29The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines,

reaping-tools 1

1. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,

re-appearest 1

1. p. 205, line 6Thou also re-appearest.

re-appearing 1

1. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,

re-appears 1

1. p. 176, line 8(In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay,

reaps 1

1. p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,

rear 7

1. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
2. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
3. p. 193, line 14Bringing up the rear, hovering above, around, or in the ranks marching,
4. p. 210, line 7Phantoms! phantoms countless by flank and rear!
5. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
6. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
7. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,

reason 8

1. p. 69, line 17And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
2. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
3. p. 137, line 17Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
4. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
5. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
6. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
7. p. 408, line 7[…] must allow a little fun here—for one reason there are too many of the following poemets about death […]
8. p. 429, line 8[…] and without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves of Grass," before a line was […]

reasoning 2

1. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
2. p. 180, line 7No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,

reasons 14

1. p. 54, line 8And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
2. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
3. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
4. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
5. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,

reasons-for-being 1

1. p. 434, line 4[…] of that war's sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]

reason-why 1

1. p. 419, line 4"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely hidden?

rebeck 1

1. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,

rebel 2

1. p. 16, line 4Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;
2. p. 287, line 17For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,

rebellion 1

1. p. 128, line 23My call is the call of battle, I nourish active rebellion,

rebellious 3

1. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
2. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
3. p. 412, line 12Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?

reborn 3

1. p. 195, line 21Commerce opening, the sleep of ages having done its work, races reborn, refresh'd,
2. p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
3. p. 358, line 20A reborn race appears—a perfect world, all joy!

rebuffs 1

1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

rebuke 2

1. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
2. p. 306, line 15Miserable! yet for thy errors, vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke thee,

recall 1

1. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,

recall'd 2 today: recalled

1. p. 106, line 12All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
2. p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,

recalling 2

1. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
2. p. 273, line 15To life recalling many a prostrate form;)

recalls 1

1. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,

recast 2

1. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
2. p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)

recede 2

1. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
2. p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,

recedes 1

1. p. 326, line 13The earth recedes from me into the night,

receding 2

1. p. 50, line 20The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
2. p. 392, line 28All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,

receiv'd 9 today: received

1. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
2. p. 62, line 15We had receiv'd some eighteen pound shots under the water,
3. 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,
4. p. 131, line 22I too had receiv'd identity by my body,
5. p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,

receive 15

1. p. 33, line 13Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
2. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
3. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
4. p. 126, line 10What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
5. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!

receives 5

1. p. 31, line 9Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
2. p. 157, line 16She receives them as the laws of Nature receive them, she is strong,
3. p. 290, line 5The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
4. p. 290, line 12Who has been wise receives interest,
5. p. 431, line 1[…] The New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's […]

receiving 5

1. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
2. p. 77, line 3I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
3. p. 122, line 25Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
4. 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,
5. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,

recent 1

1. p. 434, line 32[…] of faith report these things? Up to how recent a date is the song carried? What the equipment, and […]

reception 1

1. p. 121, line 15Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial,

receptive 3

1. p. 16, line 8Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
2. p. 93, line 16We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
3. p. 176, line 9Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

recess 1

1. p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,

recesses 6

1. p. 168, line 12All their recesses of forests and mountains leaving,
2. p. 256, line 4In the swamp in secluded recesses,
3. p. 259, line 5Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
4. p. 260, line 8From deep secluded recesses,
5. p. 262, line 6As that powerful psalm in the night I heard from recesses,
6. p. 309, line 21Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,

reciprocal 1

1. p. 399, line 23For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands,

recitative 6

1. p. 113, line 8I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
2. p. 207, line 23TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,
3. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
4. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
5. p. 358, line 28THEE for my recitative,
6. p. 410, line 2My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years,

recitatives 2

1. p. 11, line 25These recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,
2. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,

reciting 1

1. p. 414, line 17AN ancient song, reciting, ending,

reck'd 1 today: recked

1. p. 399, line 10Reck'd or unreck'd. duly with love returns.)

reckless 6

1. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
2. p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
3. p. 199, line 22O reckless despairing carols.
4. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
5. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
6. p. 368, line 20These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,

reckon 3

1. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
2. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
3. p. 326, line 24I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides,

reckon'd 5 today: reckoned

1. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
2. p. 171, line 24What have you reckon'd them for, camerado?
3. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
4. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?

reckoning 3

1. p. 308, line 17Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
2. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
3. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?

recks 1

1. p. 157, line 24(AH little recks the laborer,

recline 3

1. p. 77, line 4I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
2. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
3. p. 341, line 18Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me;

reclined 1

1. p. 35, line 25I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other,

reclines 1

1. p. 41, line 2The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just-open'd lips,

reclining 4

1. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
2. p. 218, line 16WHY reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?
3. p. 238, line 12Then on the earth partially reclining sat by your side leaning my chin in my hands,
4. p. 278, line 6Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee,

recluse 1

1. p. 244, line 18Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,

recognition 3

1. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
2. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
3. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

recognizance 1

1. p. 436, line 33[…] in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and […]

recognized 1

1. p. 369, line 8The announcements of recognized things, science,

re-cohering 1

1. p. 12, line 14Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering,

recoil 1

1. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,

recoiling 1

1. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,

recompense 1

1. p. 53, line 7Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

reconciles 1

1. p. 416, line 21Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,

reconnoissance 1

1. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,

reconnoitering 1

1. p. 400, line 12To the scouts ahead reconnoitering,

record 8

1. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
2. p. 288, line 23Not a mark, not a record remains—and yet all remains.
3. p. 426, line 13[…] my own way, and put it unerringly on record—the value thereof to be decided by time […]
4. p. 427, line 6[…] to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it gives one man's—the […]
5. p. 431, line 41I have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests […]
6. p. 437, line 4[…] had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways […]
7. p. 438, line 12[…] Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record in current […]
8. p. 438, line 13[…] record. I could not find any similar personal record in current literature that satisfied me. But it is not […]

recorded 1

1. p. 290, line 22All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded,

recorders 1

1. p. 102, line 9RECORDERS ages hence,

recording 2

1. p. 254, line 9Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past,
2. p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,

records 6

1. p. 113, line 16I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
2. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
3. p. 118, line 2I look on chisell'd histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,
4. p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
5. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
6. p. 431, line 4[…] area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the sun of literature […]

recovering 1

1. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,

recriminations 1

1. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,

recruit 1

1. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,

recruits 3

1. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
2. p. 231, line 21On the plain below recruits are drilling and exercising,
3. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,

rectified 1

1. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?

rectitude 2

1. p. 179, line 12Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
2. 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,

recuperated 1

1. p. 36, line 23He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,

recuperation 1

1. p. 143, line 14O the joy of increase, growth, recuperation,

recurring 2

1. p. 215, line 1O ME! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
2. p. 215, line 7The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

red 52

1. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
2. p. 27, line 21The red aborigines,
3. p. 33, line 22Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
4. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
5. p. 38, line 16And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,