Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “rest”

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  1. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
  2. p. 17, line 23A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
  3. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  4. p. 32, line 9Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
  5. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  6. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  7. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  8. p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  9. p. 45, line 24Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
  10. p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
  11. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,
  12. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,
  13. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  14. p. 68, line 25Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools,
  15. p. 72, line 7The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
  16. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  17. p. 76, line 4The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  18. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  19. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  20. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  21. p. 83, line 12To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  22. 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?
  23. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  24. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
  25. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  26. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
  27. p. 98, line 13Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
  28. p. 109, line 19I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
  29. p. 109, line 21Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
  30. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  31. p. 128, line 5Behold through you as bad as the rest,
  32. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  33. p. 132, line 12Was one with the rest, the days and haps of the rest,
  34. p. 132, line 16Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping,
  35. 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.
  36. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
  37. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  38. p. 145, line 15Again I spring up the rigging to look with the rest—we descend, wild with excitement,
  39. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  40. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  41. p. 154, line 24Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains and the rest.
  42. p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
  43. p. 177, line 25The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
  44. p. 177, line 28Sits she whom I too love like the rest, sits undisturb'd,
  45. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  46. p. 183, line 11We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
  47. p. 185, line 26(Shrouded bards of other lands, you may rest, you have done your work,)
  48. p. 188, line 4Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
  49. p. 198, line 15The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,
  50. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  51. p. 215, line 6Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
  52. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  53. p. 216, line 9SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
  54. p. 219, line 9How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue,
  55. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  56. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  57. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  58. p. 231, line 20Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
  59. p. 235, line 13Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
  60. p. 256, line 17Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave,
  61. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  62. p. 260, line 5And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me,
  63. p. 261, line 27They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not,
  64. p. 265, line 5Produce great Persons, the rest follows.
  65. p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,
  66. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  67. p. 288, line 2It waits for all the rest to go, it is the last.
  68. p. 289, line 10Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
  69. p. 292, line 20Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest.
  70. p. 301, line 8Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
  71. p. 301, line 15These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
  72. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  73. p. 310, line 26Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
  74. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
  75. p. 311, line 22Bathing, supporting, merging all the rest, maternity of all the rest,
  76. p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
  77. p. 314, line 19But now it seems to me sound leads o'er all the rest.)
  78. p. 316, line 15You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!
  79. p. 320, line 3The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest,
  80. p. 320, line 16Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself,
  81. p. 323, line 21I cannot rest O God, I cannot eat or drink or sleep,
  82. p. 332, line 21Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
  83. p. 344, line 7FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,
  84. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  85. p. 355, line 2This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest,
  86. p. 361, line 24I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
  87. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  88. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  89. p. 371, line 1Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest!
  90. p. 372, line 8Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,
  91. p. 372, line 14Invisible to the rest henceforth become my companions,
  92. p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
  93. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
  94. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  95. p. 385, line 18High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,
  96. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,
  97. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,
  98. p. 397, line 20True conquerors o'er all the rest.
  99. p. 401, line 22A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.
  100. p. 402, line 5Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest,
  101. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  102. p. 409, line 12We only know that we drift here with the rest,
  103. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,
  104. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  105. p. 415, line 29An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
  106. p. 417, line 15(Amid the rest, amid the rushing, whirling, wild debris,
  107. p. 419, line 1"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest,
  108. p. 426, line 31[…] as a young fellow, to enter with the rest into competition for the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c […]
  109. p. 429, line 5Just as all the old imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely […]
  110. p. 431, line 30[…] given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that have […]