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.

S

s – silvery · similar – statements · states – systole

states 98

  1. p. 15, line 8TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
  2. p. 15, line 11ON journeys through the States we start,
  3. p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
  4. p. 15, line 19We confer on equal terms with each of the States,
  5. p. 16, line 11A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
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  1. p. 20, line 16In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
  2. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,
  3. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  4. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
  5. p. 26, line 1Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
  6. p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
  7. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  8. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
  9. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  10. p. 86, line 6In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  11. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  12. p. 97, line 6I will raise with it immortal reverberations through the States,
  13. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  14. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  15. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  16. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
  17. p. 111, line 23I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
  18. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  19. p. 140, line 19All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States, reminiscences, institutions,
  20. p. 140, line 20All these States compact, every square mile of these States without excepting a particle;
  21. p. 141, line 9Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States, each for itself—the moneymakers,
  22. p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
  23. p. 155, line 18Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
  24. p. 160, line 28The banners of the States and flags of every land,
  25. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  26. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
  27. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  28. p. 177, line 14Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.
  29. p. 181, line 26Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states,
  30. 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.
  31. p. 191, line 1I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
  32. p. 193, line 1In the name of these States and in your and my name, the Past,
  33. p. 193, line 2And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.
  34. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  35. p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
  36. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  37. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  38. p. 223, line 8And then the song of each member of these States.
  39. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  40. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  41. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  42. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  43. p. 263, line 30Was saved the Union of these States.
  44. p. 265, line 10I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,
  45. p. 265, line 20Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
  46. p. 266, line 9These States are the amplest poem,
  47. p. 267, line 11The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
  48. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,
  49. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  50. 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,
  51. p. 269, line 9Of these States the poet is the equable man,
  52. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  53. 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?
  54. p. 271, line 12Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
  55. p. 273, line 1Fall behind me States!
  56. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  57. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
  58. p. 275, line 23These States, what are they except myself?
  59. p. 282, line 13Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp or tobacco in the Borders,
  60. p. 282, line 15Or aught that ripens in all these States or North or South,
  61. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  62. p. 303, line 20The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
  63. p. 346, line 21Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
  64. p. 364, line 23THEY shall arise in the States,
  65. p. 370, line 4I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,
  66. p. 373, line 6How few see the arrived models, the athletes, the Western States, or see freedom or spirituality, or hold any faith in results,
  67. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
  68. 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,
  69. p. 380, line 15When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
  70. p. 381, line 1I announce that the identity of these States is a single identity only,
  71. p. 384, line 48[…] Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks […]
  72. p. 386, line 4Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled Flag I love,
  73. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  74. p. 408, line 24[…] hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting […]
  75. p. 413, line 38[…] the war had continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most […]
  76. p. 413, line 44[…] and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world […]
  77. p. 427, line 4[…] do. Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view […]
  78. p. 427, line 28[…] countless examples and practical occupations in the United States to-day […]
  79. p. 428, line 13[…] historical and other prominent facts of the United States—the war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste […]
  80. p. 429, line 14[…] quality in the mind. Think of the United States to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd […]
  81. p. 431, line 15[…] there one that is consistent with these United States, or essentially applicable to them as they are and are […]
  82. p. 435, line 7[…] operative political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and […]
  83. p. 436, line 8[…] wish'd to put the complete Union of the States in my songs without any preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth […]
  84. p. 437, line 22[…] ever) that the crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and […]
  85. p. 437, line 28[…] the justification and main purpose of these United States […]
  86. p. 438, line 22[…] land and people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future […]
  87. p. 438, line 23[…] the future. Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of […]

statesman 1

  1. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?

stationary 1

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

statistics 1

  1. 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,

statue 1

  1. p. 54, line 4And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,

statued 1

  1. p. 160, line 14Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,

statuettes 1

  1. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,

stature 2

  1. p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,
  2. p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,

statute-books 1

  1. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?

statutes 5

  1. p. 108, line 8Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
  2. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
  3. p. 167, line 26You vital, universal, deathless germs, beneath all creeds, arts, statutes, literatures,
  4. p. 287, line 11Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
  5. p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,

stave-machines 1

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

staves 1

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

stay 9

  1. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  2. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  3. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  4. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  5. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
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  1. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  2. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  3. p. 211, line 7The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
  4. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.

staying 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,

stays 3

  1. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  2. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
  3. p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,

stead 2

  1. p. 162, line 6And in its stead speed industry's campaigns,
  2. p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,

steadied 1

  1. p. 348, line 18Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,

steadily 13

  1. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  2. p. 85, line 20For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.
  3. p. 178, line 12Tumbling on steadily, nothing dreading,
  4. p. 196, line 10Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
  5. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
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  1. p. 209, line 2Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting,
  2. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  3. p. 233, line 3Of that brigade I tell, and how steadily it march'd,
  4. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  5. p. 233, line 23Our foe advancing, steadily getting the best of it, push'd us back to the works on this hill,
  6. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;
  7. p. 420, line 22Begun in ripen'd youth and steadily pursued,
  8. p. 426, line 38[…] hovering on the flanks, mostly indefinite hitherto, had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything […]

steady 25

  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. 47, line 6Soft doctrine as steady help as stable doctrine,
  3. p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  4. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  5. p. 148, line 7To leave this steady unendurable land,
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  1. p. 150, line 19The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod-men;
  2. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  3. p. 164, line 8Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
  4. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  5. p. 183, line 25We detachments steady throwing,
  6. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  7. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
  8. p. 208, line 23Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
  9. p. 224, line 14The great steady wind from west or west-by-south,
  10. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
  11. p. 246, line 14And the small drums steady whirring,
  12. p. 253, line 12Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left,
  13. p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
  14. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  15. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  16. p. 324, line 23With ray of light, steady, ineffable, vouchsafed of Thee,
  17. p. 328, line 7Steady and long he struggles,
  18. p. 334, line 13Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,
  19. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  20. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,

steak 1

  1. p. 75, line 2Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,

steal 1

  1. p. 412, line 2Two mighty masterful vessels sailers steal upon us:

stealing 2

  1. p. 212, line 6Yet behind all lowering stealing, lo, a shape,
  2. p. 317, line 23Over my mood stealing and spreading they come,

stealth 1

  1. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,

stealthily 1

  1. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)

stealthy 3

  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. 140, line 17The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march,
  3. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,

steam 3

  1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  2. p. 142, line 20To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!
  3. p. 174, line 12Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam wagons,

steamboat 3

  1. p. 17, line 5The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
  2. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  3. p. 267, line 24Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points,

steamboats 4

  1. p. 128, line 12In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
  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.
  3. p. 139, line 1On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up,
  4. p. 155, line 20Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas.

steam'd 2 today: steamed

  1. p. 115, line 6Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia,
  2. p. 375, line 29As I steam'd down the Mississippi,

steamed see steam'd

steamer 1

  1. p. 245, line 20The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!

steamers 7

  1. p. 28, line 8See, steamers steaming through my poems,
  2. p. 130, line 28The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,
  3. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
  4. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  5. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  6. p. 385, line 5One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce, steamers, sails,
  7. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,

steaming 3

  1. p. 28, line 8See, steamers steaming through my poems,
  2. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  3. p. 389, line 1Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,

steam-power 3

  1. p. 163, line 8Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum,
  2. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
  3. p. 281, line 29The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines,

steam-saws 1

  1. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,

steam-ship 4

  1. p. 56, line 19Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
  2. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  3. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  4. p. 371, line 3With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war,

steamships 8

  1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  2. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  3. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
  4. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  5. p. 195, line 19My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
  6. p. 230, line 27O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)
  7. p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,
  8. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,

steam-tug 1

  1. p. 131, line 5On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter,

steam-whistle 5

  1. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  2. p. 51, line 12The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
  3. p. 142, line 20To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive!
  4. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
  5. p. 317, line 4I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steam-whistle,

steed 1

  1. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.

steel 7

  1. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  2. p. 150, line 22The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
  3. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  4. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
  5. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  6. p. 357, line 5I hear the shouts, the sounds of blows and smiting steel;
  7. p. 359, line 1Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,

steep 1

  1. p. 183, line 26Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep,

steep'd 1 today: steeped

  1. p. 52, line 1Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death,

steeped see steep'd

steeples 1

  1. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,

steeps 1

  1. p. 77, line 15Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,

steer 5

  1. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
  2. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  3. p. 323, line 5Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
  4. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  5. p. 409, line 2Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth,

steerers 1

  1. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,

steering 1

  1. p. 205, line 16A young steersman steering with care.

steersman 2

  1. p. 205, line 16A young steersman steering with care.
  2. p. 205, line 21For as on the alert O steersman, you mind the loud admonition,

stellar 1

  1. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,

stem 1

  1. p. 394, line 12What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!

stemming 1

  1. p. 183, line 30We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,

stems 3

  1. p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  2. p. 100, line 8And stems of currants and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar,
  3. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,

step 17

  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. 19, line 23With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
  4. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  5. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
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  1. p. 158, line 23I mark her step divine, her curious eyes a-turning, rolling,
  2. p. 213, line 3No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
  3. p. 213, line 4Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
  4. p. 233, line 8Jauntily forward they went with quick step toward Gowanus' waters,
  5. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  6. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  7. p. 264, line 8And death and infidelity at every step.)
  8. p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
  9. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  10. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  11. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
  12. p. 430, line 41[…] them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the best song indispensable […]

step-ladder 1

  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,

steppes 1

  1. p. 116, line 16I see the steppes of Asia,

stepping 5

  1. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  2. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  3. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  4. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.

steps 14

  1. p. 40, line 6Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
  2. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  3. p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
  4. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!
  5. p. 221, line 21Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
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  1. p. 230, line 3Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;
  2. p. 231, line 16The hill-top is nigh, but a few steps, (make room gentlemen,)
  3. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  4. p. 239, line 2A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
  5. p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;
  6. p. 297, line 19As the water follows the moon, silently, with fluid steps, anywhere around the globe.
  7. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
  8. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,
  9. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—

stereotyping 1

  1. p. 174, line 11Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, cotton-picking, electroplating, electrotyping, stereotyping,

sterile 2

  1. p. 153, line 25A sterile landscape covers the ore, there is as good as the best for all the forbidding appearance,
  2. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,

stern 7

  1. p. 11, line 13Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
  2. p. 89, line 7I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable, but I love you,
  3. p. 184, line 15Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
  4. p. 188, line 14Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long-accrued retribution?
  5. p. 264, line 3A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern visage accosted me,
  6. p. 270, line 11Songs of stern defiance ever ready,
  7. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.

sternest 2

  1. 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,
  2. p. 366, line 23The cavalry companies fighting to the last in sternest heroism,

sternly 6

  1. p. 115, line 3Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs,
  2. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  3. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  4. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  5. 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.)
  6. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,

stevedores 2

  1. p. 51, line 10The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the refrain of the anchor-lifters,
  2. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,

stick 4

  1. p. 45, line 1I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
  2. p. 129, line 9Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
  3. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  4. p. 211, line 10Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,

sticks 3

  1. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  2. p. 51, line 3I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals,
  3. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,

sticky 1

  1. p. 154, line 20Whose is that blood upon you so wet and sticky?)

stiff 3

  1. p. 32, line 28And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  2. p. 210, line 2Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.
  3. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,

stiffening 1

  1. p. 52, line 16On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,

stiffer 1

  1. p. 407, line 34[…] these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient […]

stifle 1

  1. p. 177, line 8Will you squat and stifle there?)

stifled 2

  1. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  2. p. 324, line 13By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,

stiflings 1

  1. p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,

still 73

  1. p. 12, line 31From science and the modern still impell'd,
  2. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  3. p. 17, line 16STILL though the one I sing,
  4. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  5. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
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  1. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  2. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
  3. p. 58, line 7Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  4. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
  5. p. 63, line 13Stretch'd and still lies the midnight,
  6. p. 71, line 20All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.
  7. p. 79, line 14Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  8. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  9. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
  10. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  11. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  12. 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,
  13. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  14. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
  15. p. 121, line 9(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
  16. p. 132, line 17Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
  17. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
  18. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
  19. p. 167, line 8Still prouder, more ecstatic rose the chant,
  20. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  21. p. 177, line 15The earth does not exhibit itself nor refuse to exhibit itself, possesses still underneath,
  22. p. 178, line 14The soul's realization and determination still inheriting,
  23. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
  24. p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
  25. p. 190, line 17Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries.
  26. p. 199, line 27So faint, I must be still, be still to listen,
  27. p. 199, line 28But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
  28. p. 216, line 16A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
  29. p. 239, line 25The unknown road still marching.
  30. p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
  31. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  32. p. 251, line 2I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,
  33. p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
  34. p. 254, line 2Still on our own campaigning bound,
  35. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  36. p. 260, line 9From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,
  37. p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
  38. p. 268, line 11With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
  39. p. 271, line 21Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
  40. p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,
  41. p. 285, line 16I withdraw from the still woods I loved,
  42. p. 304, line 13And that to another, and every one to another still.
  43. p. 316, line 1(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
  44. p. 325, line 17How solemn they look there, stretch'd and still,
  45. p. 335, line 5To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  46. p. 335, line 12To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
  47. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  48. p. 347, line 8But greater still from what is yet to come,
  49. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,
  50. p. 351, line 20TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
  51. p. 362, line 15Open but still a secret, the real of the real, an illusion,
  52. p. 366, line 7(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)
  53. p. 369, line 5Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers,
  54. p. 376, line 12I still warble under you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.
  55. p. 376, line 17(I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still,
  56. p. 391, line 16—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day,
  57. p. 396, line 22Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
  58. p. 411, line 10So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,
  59. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,
  60. p. 425, line 30[…] back on fond dreams of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly […]
  61. p. 427, line 31[…] attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed attitude […]
  62. p. 430, line 19[…] possess from the bequests of the past, it still remains to be said that there is even towards all […]
  63. p. 437, line 1[…] Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all. Ever […]
  64. p. 438, line 23[…] singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States continue to absorb and […]

still'd 1 today: stilled

  1. p. 419, line 7The something never still'd—never entirely gone? the invisible need of every seed?

stilled see still'd

stillness 5

  1. p. 103, line 10In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,
  2. p. 143, line 2The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds, the moist fresh stillness of the woods,
  3. p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,
  4. p. 285, line 4Nor stillness so cold, nor running water from faucet, nor odors morbific impress me,
  5. 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;)

stimulants 1

  1. p. 429, line 22[…] hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and the unprecedented stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a […]

stimulus 2

  1. p. 253, line 23Red battles with their slaughter, the stimulus, the strong terrific game,
  2. p. 433, line 41[…] if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given […]

sting 6

  1. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  2. p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,
  3. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
  4. p. 93, line 21O why sting me for a swift moment only?
  5. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
  6. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,

stinging 1

  1. p. 90, line 15The hubb'd sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,

sting-ray 1

  1. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,

stings 2

  1. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  2. p. 90, line 14The no-form'd stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,

stintless 1

  1. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,

stir 3

  1. p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  2. p. 131, line 18I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
  3. p. 387, line 4Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?

stirr'd 1 today: stirred

  1. p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,

stirred see stirr'd

stirring 1

  1. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

stock 10

  1. p. 37, line 9You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  2. p. 118, line 24You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;)
  3. p. 136, line 14The English believe he comes of their English stock,
  4. p. 171, line 14Or in the census or revenue returns, prices current, or any accounts of stock.
  5. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
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  1. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  2. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  3. p. 334, line 25Good day's work, bad day's work, pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning-in at night,
  4. p. 427, line 22[…] do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation, or choice plots of love or war, or high […]

Stockholm 1

  1. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,

stockings 1

  1. p. 327, line 18I sit low in a straw-bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

stocks 2

  1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  2. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,

stole 2

  1. p. 132, line 6Blabb'd, blush'd, resented, lied, stole, grudg'd,
  2. p. 238, line 15As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,

stomach 1

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

stomach-sac 1

  1. p. 87, line 18The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,

stone 8

  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. 61, line 5The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
  3. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
  4. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
  5. p. 188, line 16Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
  6. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  7. p. 302, line 8The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone, the light-press'd blade,
  8. p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)

stonecrop 1

  1. p. 47, line 21Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac,

stone-cutters 1

  1. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,

stone-cutting 1

  1. p. 174, line 3Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades or window or door-lintels, the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb,

stones 10

  1. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
  2. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  3. p. 60, line 6I fall on the weeds and stones,
  4. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  5. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
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  1. 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.
  2. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
  3. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  4. p. 220, line 22The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble lightly over the stones,
  5. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.

stone-yard 1

  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,

stood 25

  1. p. 11, line 19Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book.)
  2. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
  3. p. 105, line 22All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
  4. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  5. p. 132, line 14Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the negligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
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  1. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
  2. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  3. p. 191, line 7There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)
  4. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
  5. p. 233, line 4And how long and well it stood confronting death.
  6. p. 234, line 18As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
  7. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
  8. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  9. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  10. p. 276, line 21LET that which stood in front go behind,
  11. p. 279, line 11In the midst of the conflict, the heroes, I stood,
  12. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.
  13. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  14. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  15. p. 326, line 29The emigrant and the exile, the criminal that stood in the box,
  16. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  17. p. 343, line 15I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
  18. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  19. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  20. p. 431, line 44[…] now be candidly stated. If I had not stood before those poems with uncover'd head, fully aware of their […]

stool 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,

stools 1

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

stoop 1

  1. p. 49, line 27That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be,

stop 23

  1. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  2. p. 19, line 23With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
  3. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  4. p. 32, line 16Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat,
  5. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
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  1. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  2. p. 52, line 8I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
  3. p. 79, line 6I stop somewhere waiting for you.
  4. p. 83, line 12To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
  5. p. 122, line 19I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
  6. p. 125, line 10Allons! we must not stop here,
  7. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  8. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  9. p. 186, line 2Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
  10. p. 222, line 19Make no parley—stop for no expostulation,
  11. p. 235, line 12Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
  12. p. 242, line 27I onward go, I stop,
  13. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
  14. p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
  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. 332, line 17I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
  17. p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
  18. p. 438, line 27[…] minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]

stoppage 2

  1. p. 73, line 4There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,

stopping 8

  1. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  2. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  3. p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
  4. p. 184, line 23Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
  5. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  6. p. 325, line 16Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
  7. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.
  8. p. 432, line 9[…] would dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the […]

stops 4

  1. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  2. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  3. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  4. p. 153, line 18The dispute on the soul stops,

stopt 3

  1. p. 36, line 8The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
  2. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
  3. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,

store 7

  1. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
  2. p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,
  3. p. 220, line 8The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book-keeper, porter, all leaving;
  4. p. 277, line 1AS consequent from store of summer rains,
  5. p. 380, line 3Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)
  6. p. 388, line 4Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,
  7. p. 414, line 12Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone—haply from endless store, God-sent,

stored 1

  1. p. 348, line 16The Past is also stored in thee,

storehouse 2

  1. p. 150, line 14The huge storehouse carried up in the city well under way,
  2. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,

storehouses 2

  1. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  2. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,

stores 10

  1. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  2. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  3. p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
  4. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  5. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
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  1. p. 225, line 20I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
  2. p. 227, line 25Nor excellent stores, nor landed on wharves from the ships,
  3. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
  4. p. 308, line 6These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives,
  5. p. 363, line 5What countless stores of beauty, love, ventur'd for it!

storm 23

  1. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  2. p. 80, line 22The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
  3. p. 149, line 14The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,
  4. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  5. p. 168, line 3Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure,
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  1. p. 178, line 13Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
  2. p. 204, line 4From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
  3. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!
  4. p. 204, line 22O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!
  5. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  6. p. 204, line 28(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended'st,
  7. p. 208, line 22WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
  8. p. 228, line 19I sail'd through the storm, I was refresh'd by the storm,
  9. p. 250, line 5Race of passion and the storm.
  10. p. 310, line 13PROUD music of the storm,
  11. p. 315, line 10Nor dream of raging storm, nor sea-hawk's flapping wings nor harsh scream,
  12. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  13. p. 358, line 29Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
  14. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,
  15. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  16. p. 396, line 12Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night,
  17. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,

storming 1

  1. p. 58, line 17Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,

storms 13

  1. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  2. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  3. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
  4. p. 91, line 13(What is this that frees me so in storms?
  5. p. 114, line 20Some are in storms, some in the night with the watch on the lookout,
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  1. p. 114, line 23Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
  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. 126, line 14Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
  4. p. 188, line 1These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
  5. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  6. p. 229, line 26Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,
  7. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
  8. p. 277, line 20Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?

stormy 5

  1. p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
  2. p. 230, line 12No more the mountains roam or sail the stormy sea.
  3. p. 263, line 19No more for him life's stormy conflicts,
  4. p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
  5. p. 428, line 13[…] United States—the war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years […]

story 3

  1. p. 234, line 20Enough, the Centenarian's story ends,
  2. p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,
  3. p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)

stout 2

  1. p. 31, line 5Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
  2. p. 432, line 28[…] sixteenth year I had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo volume (I have it yet […]

stout-strong 1

  1. p. 401, line 10I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded—the stout-strong frame,

stove 3

  1. p. 40, line 1The quadroon girl is sold at the auction-stand, the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove,
  2. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  3. p. 295, line 7The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove.

straddle 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;

stragglers 1

  1. p. 435, line 22[…] instincts are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious […]

straight 10

  1. 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.
  2. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
  3. p. 186, line 18I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
  4. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,
  5. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
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  1. p. 216, line 14In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
  2. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  3. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
  4. p. 329, line 13Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half-envelop'd her face,
  5. p. 361, line 13The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form'd, beautiful-faced, looking you straight in the eyes,

strain 7

  1. p. 80, line 11The overture lightly sounding, the strain anticipating,
  2. p. 167, line 7Then to a loftier strain,
  3. p. 182, line 9Soothing each lull a strain is heard, just heard,
  4. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  5. p. 358, line 12Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet,
  6. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  7. p. 415, line 25Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain

straining 1

  1. p. 52, line 17Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,

strains 5

  1. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  2. p. 23, line 25Strains musical flowing through ages, now reaching hither,
  3. p. 277, line 27Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies,
  4. p. 309, line 15Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,
  5. p. 395, line 20How through those strains distill'd—how the rapt ears, the soul of me, absorbing

strait 1

  1. p. 120, line 14I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,

straits 4

  1. p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,

strange 36

  1. p. 11, line 15After a strange sad war, great war for thee,
  2. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  3. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
  4. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  5. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
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  1. p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
  2. p. 200, line 23The strange tears down the cheeks coursing,
  3. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  4. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  5. p. 238, line 1VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night;
  6. p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
  7. p. 248, line 19Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side,
  8. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  9. p. 276, line 7Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.
  10. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
  11. p. 306, line 14Strange, passionate, mocking, frivolous land.
  12. p. 313, line 30But silent, strange, devout, rais'd, glowing heads, ecstatic faces.
  13. p. 316, line 32I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,
  14. p. 356, line 6HARK, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician,
  15. 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,
  16. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
  17. p. 385, line 19Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
  18. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
  19. p. 392, line 3Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions,
  20. p. 396, line 13To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;
  21. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  22. p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,
  23. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,
  24. p. 410, line 22(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,
  25. p. 413, line 13The clank of cavalry—the strange celerity of forming ranks—the slender bugle note;
  26. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  27. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,
  28. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)
  29. p. 425, line 22[…] the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing strange developments […]
  30. p. 429, line 1[…] fine plot, or pensive or other emotion. But, strange as it may sound at first, I will say there […]

strangely 5

  1. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  2. p. 309, line 12(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,
  3. p. 362, line 26Or strangely in the coffin'd dead,
  4. p. 416, line 11A special verse for you—a flash of duty long neglected—your mystic roll strangely gather'd here,
  5. p. 419, line 4"Has the estray wander'd far? Is the reason-why strangely hidden?

stranger 7

  1. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  2. p. 106, line 9PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
  3. p. 159, line 27To introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia;
  4. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  5. p. 301, line 23What stranger miracles are there?
  6. p. 329, line 15My mother look'd in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  7. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;

strangers 5

  1. p. 124, line 8Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
  2. p. 124, line 17What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
  3. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  4. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  5. p. 301, line 9Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,

strangest 1

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

strangling 1

  1. p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!

strap 1

  1. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,

straps 2

  1. p. 40, line 4The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race,
  2. p. 220, line 10The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,

strata 6

  1. p. 13, line 6Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
  2. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
  3. p. 72, line 7The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
  4. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  5. p. 284, line 4The strata of color'd clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint away solitary by itself, the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
  6. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.

stratagems 1

  1. p. 124, line 6Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?

straw 5

  1. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,
  2. p. 140, line 1There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all directions is cover'd with pine straw;
  3. p. 202, line 11Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten,
  4. p. 204, line 2Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
  5. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,

straw-bottom 1

  1. p. 327, line 18I sit low in a straw-bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.

stray 2

  1. p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
  2. p. 75, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?

straying 5

  1. p. 75, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
  2. p. 196, line 8Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
  3. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  4. p. 311, line 32The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
  5. p. 433, line 32[…] radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far a distance, must be an identical body and […]

strayings 1

  1. p. 410, line 7Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—here at the west a voice triumphant—justifying all,

streak 1

  1. p. 408, line 11[…] yet like a kid or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe […]

streaks 1

  1. p. 352, line 4And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;

stream 6

  1. p. 49, line 11You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life!
  2. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  3. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  4. p. 164, line 12See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
  5. p. 347, line 19Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
  6. p. 391, line 15Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:

streamers 1

  1. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,

streaming 3

  1. p. 204, line 20Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;
  2. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  3. p. 280, line 16Streaming northward, their work done, camping awhile in clusters of mighty camps.

streams 13

  1. p. 23, line 14Mysterious ocean where the streams empty,
  2. p. 37, line 13Little streams pass'd all over their bodies.
  3. p. 159, line 10The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the sunrise,
  4. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  5. p. 213, line 8Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,
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  1. p. 223, line 26I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy,
  2. p. 277, line 7With the old streams of death.)
  3. p. 296, line 3Nor by your streams alone, you rivers,
  4. p. 309, line 10In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
  5. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
  6. p. 368, line 21These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,
  7. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  8. p. 379, line 12To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams,

street 12

  1. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
  4. p. 117, line 17I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
  2. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  3. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  4. p. 220, line 7The driver deserting his wagon in the street, jumping down, throwing the reins abruptly down on the horses' backs,
  5. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  6. p. 295, line 25Marriage, the street, the factory, farm, the house-room, lodging-room,
  7. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,

street-festoons 1

  1. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,

streets 46

  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. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  3. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
  4. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  5. p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
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  1. p. 105, line 9Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,
  2. p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
  3. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  4. p. 128, line 11Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
  5. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
  6. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,
  7. p. 138, line 20Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering,
  8. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  9. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  10. p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
  11. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  12. p. 222, line 12Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets;
  13. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  14. p. 231, line 14War, red war is my song through your streets, O city!
  15. p. 245, line 1Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,
  16. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  17. p. 245, line 13Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!
  18. p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
  19. p. 246, line 11All the channels of the city streets they're flooding,
  20. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  21. p. 256, line 19Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,
  22. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,
  23. p. 272, line 18Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets,
  24. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  25. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  26. p. 289, line 19MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd pondering,
  27. p. 295, line 5In one, among the city streets a laborer's home appear'd,
  28. p. 295, line 13Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,
  29. p. 301, line 3Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  30. p. 302, line 7The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets,
  31. p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,
  32. 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,
  33. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,
  34. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  35. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,
  36. p. 362, line 23Companion of the city's busiest streets, through the assemblage,
  37. p. 376, line 2As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago, whatever streets I have roam'd,
  38. p. 390, line 22All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work,
  39. p. 393, line 22Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms,
  40. p. 420, line 4Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shopfronts,

strength 15

  1. p. 12, line 19We seeming solid wealth, strength, beauty build,
  2. p. 44, line 9How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
  3. p. 52, line 24No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
  4. p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
  5. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
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  1. p. 271, line 25Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
  2. p. 306, line 2The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
  3. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  4. p. 322, line 8What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
  5. p. 328, line 8He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out,
  6. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,
  7. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  8. p. 375, line 3In the strength and flush of manhood,
  9. p. 387, line 3Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
  10. p. 387, line 10Once living men—once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,

strengthens 1

  1. p. 224, line 18Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,

stress 1

  1. p. 435, line 10[…] has not yet appear'd. I have allow'd the stress of my poems from beginning to end to bear upon […]

stretch 11

  1. p. 59, line 3Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
  2. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  3. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  4. p. 145, line 27My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.
  5. p. 168, line 19The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,
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  1. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  2. p. 366, line 19Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,
  3. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  4. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  5. p. 432, line 34[…] go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores—there […]

stretch'd 9 today: stretched

  1. p. 35, line 24I am there, I help, I came stretch'd atop of the load,
  2. p. 46, line 20Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,
  3. p. 63, line 13Stretch'd and still lies the midnight,
  4. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  5. p. 152, line 13The place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely,
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  1. p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
  2. p. 325, line 17How solemn they look there, stretch'd and still,
  3. p. 326, line 26To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way;
  4. p. 385, line 4Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!

stretched see stretch'd

stretchers 2

  1. p. 239, line 17Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the death-spasm sweating,
  2. p. 240, line 4Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,

stretches 5

  1. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  2. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  3. p. 224, line 28O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,
  4. p. 333, line 21The corpse stretches on the bed and the living look upon it,

stretching 6

  1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  2. p. 108, line 4Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
  3. p. 232, line 19I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river to bay,
  4. p. 266, line 26If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them North or South,
  5. p. 278, line 22The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes,
  6. p. 282, line 20Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

strew'd 3 today: strewed

  1. p. 272, line 5The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons,
  2. p. 322, line 24You, strew'd with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach'd you.
  3. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.

strewed see strew'd

strewing 1

  1. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,

strewn 2

  1. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  2. p. 205, line 2After the night's fierce drifts have strewn the shore with wrecks,

stricken 2

  1. p. 237, line 10O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul!
  2. p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)

strict 2

  1. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  2. p. 336, line 20But there is more account than that, there is strict account of all.

strictly 1

  1. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,

stride 2

  1. p. 229, line 24Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!
  2. p. 344, line 3O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;

strides 1

  1. p. 229, line 21How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!

stridest 1

  1. p. 369, line 4Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,

striding 1

  1. p. 159, line 21Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for herself, striding through the confusion,

strife 2

  1. p. 148, line 3To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!
  2. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)

strifes 1

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

strike 16

  1. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  2. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  3. p. 71, line 18My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,
  4. p. 85, line 2(Where else does he strike soundings except here?)
  5. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
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  1. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  2. p. 139, line 9On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,
  3. p. 212, line 1Then in their power not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
  4. p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
  5. p. 229, line 24Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!
  6. p. 246, line 22And the drums strike more convulsive,
  7. p. 264, line 5And strike up the marches of Libertad, marches more powerful yet,
  8. p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
  9. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
  10. p. 351, line 2The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
  11. p. 352, line 22Strike through these chants.

strikes 8

  1. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  2. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  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. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  5. p. 246, line 16Strikes me through and through.
  6. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  7. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  8. p. 395, line 10At last at nightfall strikes the breeze aright, her whole luck veering,

striking 3

  1. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
  2. p. 178, line 16No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,
  3. p. 429, line 2[…] at first, I will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for […]

string'd 1 today: stringed

  1. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,

stringed see string'd

stringing 2

  1. p. 138, line 16Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
  2. p. 293, line 26Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,)

string-piece 1

  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,

strings 1

  1. p. 314, line 1I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings,

strip 2

  1. p. 71, line 4What is known I strip away,
  2. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,

stripes 5

  1. p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
  2. p. 195, line 20My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind,
  3. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  4. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  5. p. 276, line 18Bards with songs as from burning coals or the lightning's fork'd stripes!

stripling 1

  1. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!

stripped see stript

strippings 1

  1. p. 49, line 11You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life!

strips 2

  1. p. 225, line 8For what are we, mere strips of cloth profiting nothing,
  2. p. 225, line 10I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,

stript 1 today: stripped

  1. p. 85, line 24They shall be stript that you may see them.

strive 1

  1. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?

striving 1

  1. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;

strode 2

  1. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
  2. p. 276, line 6The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,

stroke 2

  1. 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.
  2. p. 229, line 24Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!

strong 86

  1. p. 17, line 2Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
  2. p. 17, line 11Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
  3. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  4. p. 39, line 19The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
  5. p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
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  1. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
  2. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  3. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  4. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.
  5. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
  6. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
  7. p. 96, line 2Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
  8. p. 113, line 17I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans,
  9. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  10. p. 121, line 4Strong and content I travel the open road.
  11. p. 121, line 27You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges!
  12. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  13. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  14. p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
  15. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  16. p. 150, line 2The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
  17. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
  18. p. 153, line 15All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears;
  19. p. 153, line 16A strong being is the proof of the race and of the ability of the universe,
  20. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  21. p. 157, line 16She receives them as the laws of Nature receive them, she is strong,
  22. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
  23. p. 166, line 8With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms,
  24. p. 166, line 23O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man,
  25. 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,
  26. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  27. p. 183, line 23Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
  28. p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
  29. p. 221, line 16But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,
  30. p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
  31. p. 229, line 27My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,
  32. p. 233, line 6It was the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  33. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  34. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  35. p. 245, line 22People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,
  36. p. 246, line 24And the strong dead-march enwraps me.
  37. p. 246, line 29O strong dead-march you please me!
  38. p. 253, line 23Red battles with their slaughter, the stimulus, the strong terrific game,
  39. p. 255, line 20With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love,
  40. p. 256, line 26With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
  41. p. 260, line 26Approach strong deliveress,
  42. p. 261, line 10Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,
  43. 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?
  44. p. 278, line 17The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
  45. p. 279, line 20With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks and your muskets;
  46. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  47. p. 281, line 6Man's innocent and strong arenas.
  48. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  49. p. 283, line 16The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger'd, unjust,
  50. p. 284, line 19The Lord is not dead, he is risen again young and strong in another country,
  51. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  52. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  53. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  54. p. 310, line 15Strong hum of forest tree-tops—wind of the mountains,
  55. p. 311, line 21The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,
  56. p. 314, line 9Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott,
  57. p. 315, line 20Singing the strong light works of engineers,
  58. p. 322, line 28Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!
  59. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  60. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  61. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  62. p. 346, line 9(Strong is your hold O mortal flesh,
  63. p. 346, line 10Strong is your hold O love.)
  64. p. 347, line 10As a strong bird on pinions free,
  65. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  66. p. 351, line 24Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
  67. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  68. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  69. 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,
  70. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  71. p. 375, line 20How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!
  72. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  73. p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
  74. p. 387, line 18Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
  75. p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
  76. p. 400, line 16The perfume strong, the smoke, the deafening noise;
  77. p. 417, line 22The fair, the strong, the good, the capable,
  78. p. 434, line 3[…] in others, in millions)—that only from the strong flare and provocation of that war's sights and scenes the […]
  79. p. 437, line 21[…] of the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth of the United […]

strong-brawn'd 1

  1. 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.

strong-breasted 1

  1. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,

strong-door'd 1

  1. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,

stronger 10

  1. 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.
  2. p. 157, line 17She too is a law of Nature—there is no law stronger than she is.
  3. p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
  4. p. 197, line 4From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
  5. p. 226, line 4Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!
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  1. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  2. p. 324, line 9The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
  3. 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;
  4. p. 384, line 58[…] While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail […]
  5. p. 398, line 20For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go, to life's war's chosen ones,

strongest 5

  1. p. 108, line 15HERE the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,
  2. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  3. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
  4. p. 287, line 25The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are choked with their own blood,
  5. p. 438, line 38[…] a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]

strongly 1

  1. p. 433, line 36[…] could not be any other. I also felt strongly (whether I have shown it or not) that to the […]

strong-possess'd 1

  1. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,

strophe 1

  1. p. 312, line 3The manly strophe of the husbands of the world,

strophes 1

  1. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,

strove 1

  1. p. 292, line 27Though long I strove courageously,

struck 5

  1. p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
  2. p. 62, line 26We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
  3. p. 131, line 21I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
  4. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  5. p. 219, line 22Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.

structures 1

  1. p. 26, line 25Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,

struggle 8

  1. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  2. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  3. p. 148, line 1O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted!
  4. p. 215, line 4Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd,
  5. p. 221, line 13ARM'D year—year of the struggle,
  6. p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
  7. p. 369, line 2(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,
  8. p. 373, line 4The vehement struggle so fierce for unity in one's-self;

struggled 1

  1. p. 165, line 5Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,

struggles 9

  1. p. 128, line 18Allons! through struggles and wars!
  2. p. 128, line 20Have the past struggles succeeded?
  3. p. 243, line 6Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life struggles hard,
  4. p. 317, line 22Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead,
  5. p. 328, line 7Steady and long he struggles,
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  1. p. 348, line 20With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou bear'st the other continents,
  2. p. 392, line 10(Naught but the greatest struggles, wrongs, defeats, could make thee greatest—no less could make thee,)
  3. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  4. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten […]

struggling 6

  1. p. 209, line 4A group of dim, weird forms, struggling, the night confronting,
  2. p. 314, line 23Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
  3. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  4. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,
  5. p. 396, line 23Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;
  6. p. 396, line 28Struggling to-day the same—battling the same.

strung 1

  1. 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,

stucco'd 1 today: stuccoed

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

stuccoed see stucco'd

stuck 2

  1. p. 42, line 24And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  2. p. 407, line 34[…] years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or […]

stud 1

  1. p. 57, line 7Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,

studded 1

  1. p. 235, line 23And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.

studding-sails 1

  1. p. 412, line 6Crowd top-sail, top-gallant and royal studding-sails,

student 1

  1. p. 295, line 27The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught,

students 4

  1. p. 101, line 20(So to the students the old professor,
  2. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  3. p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.
  4. p. 438, line 1[…] listening to the criticisms of his suite of students, he said to the latter, in answer to their questions […]

studied 6

  1. p. 19, line 4Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk,
  2. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  3. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  4. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
  5. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  6. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?

studies 5

  1. p. 12, line 22The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long,
  2. p. 14, line 25BEGINNING my studies the first step pleas'd me so much,
  3. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  4. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,
  5. p. 431, line 3[…] ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the sun […]

studious 1

  1. p. 185, line 30Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,

studs 1

  1. p. 150, line 7Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they were prepared,

study 4

  1. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
  2. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
  3. p. 217, line 11The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.
  4. 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,

studying 6

  1. p. 20, line 14I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
  2. p. 58, line 5Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the moccasin print,
  3. p. 222, line 7Into the school where the scholar is studying;
  4. p. 251, line 6As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,
  5. p. 251, line 7(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)
  6. p. 380, line 5Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,

stuff 6

  1. p. 33, line 5I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
  2. p. 42, line 6Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine,
  3. p. 66, line 16(This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.)
  4. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  5. 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,

stuff'd 2 today: stuffed

  1. p. 42, line 6Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine,

stuffed see stuff'd

stump 3

  1. p. 69, line 23Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in the circle of obis,
  2. p. 243, line 9From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand,
  3. p. 243, line 12His eyes are closed, his face is pale, he dares not look on the bloody stump,

stumps 1

  1. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,

stumpy 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,

stung 2

  1. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,

stunn'd 1 today: stunned

  1. p. 64, line 18Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!

stunned see stunn'd

stupendous 1

  1. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;

stupid 2

  1. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  2. p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,

sturdy 3

  1. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!
  2. p. 164, line 7Behold thy sturdy blacksmiths swinging their sledges,
  3. p. 221, line 5And the sturdy artillery,

Stuttgart 1

  1. p. 117, line 16I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,

style 5

  1. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  2. 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,
  3. p. 304, line 15I am of the same style, for I am their friend,
  4. p. 380, line 22I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
  5. p. 430, line 12[…] literature. Not to carry out, in the approved style, some choice plot of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or […]

styles 1

  1. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.

Styria 1

  1. p. 118, line 25You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!

Styrian 1

  1. p. 114, line 8I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,

suavity 1

  1. p. 353, line 2Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

subdued 1

  1. p. 356, line 10Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost.

subject 3

  1. p. 299, line 14There shall be no subject too pronounced—all works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections.
  2. p. 419, line 11Latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception."
  3. p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be […]

subjected 1

  1. p. 21, line 10I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State,

subjective 1

  1. p. 430, line 20[…] that there is even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and […]

subjects 2

  1. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  2. p. 434, line 31[…] the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of faith report […]

sublime 3

  1. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  2. p. 126, line 26Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
  3. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)

submissive 1

  1. p. 418, line 7Silent, resign'd, submissive.

submit 2

  1. p. 231, line 8Fear not—submit to no models but your own O city!
  2. p. 305, line 12ALL submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul,

subordinate 2

  1. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,

subordinated 1

  1. p. 119, line 4You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!

subserv'd 1 today: subserved

  1. p. 287, line 8Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs;

subserved see subserv'd

subside 1

  1. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,

subsides 1

  1. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;

subsoil 1

  1. p. 350, line 19Thy soil, thy very subsoil, all upheav'd,

substance 7

  1. p. 12, line 22The substance of an artist's mood or savan's studies long,
  2. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  3. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  4. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  5. p. 290, line 19All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
  6. p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,

substances 3

  1. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  2. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  3. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,

substantial 2

  1. p. 96, line 4Projecting them along that substantial life,
  2. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,

substratums 1

  1. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?

subterranean 1

  1. p. 277, line 4Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,

subtle 13

  1. p. 24, line 7But subtle, clandestine, away beyond,
  2. p. 100, line 19Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,
  3. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  4. p. 111, line 16Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  5. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
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  1. p. 177, line 1They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
  2. p. 201, line 13Subtle, sent up—what is it?—I listen;
  3. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  4. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,
  5. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  6. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  7. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  8. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,

subtler 4

  1. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,
  2. p. 309, line 13Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
  3. p. 347, line 23And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,

subtle-sensed 1

  1. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,

subtly 4

  1. p. 208, line 20A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors,
  2. p. 366, line 14Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac!
  3. p. 375, line 16How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
  4. p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;

suburbs 1

  1. p. 59, line 8Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,

succeeded 3

  1. p. 128, line 20Have the past struggles succeeded?
  2. p. 128, line 21What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
  3. p. 291, line 1All that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no,

success 7

  1. p. 108, line 22Nor literary success nor intellect, nor book for the book-shelf,
  2. p. 128, line 22Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
  3. p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
  4. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  5. p. 350, line 22Not for success alone,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 438, line 26[…] color to and define their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop […]

successful 2

  1. p. 242, line 9In the nick of time I come, plunge in the fight, loudly shout in the rush of successful charge,
  2. p. 388, line 18Not from successful love alone,

succession 1

  1. p. 298, line 8That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,

successions 4

  1. p. 19, line 24Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
  2. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
  3. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
  4. p. 336, line 23The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.

successive 4

  1. p. 137, line 10The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
  2. p. 181, line 12Successive absolute fiats issuing.
  3. p. 398, line 26By each successive age insoluble, pass'd on,
  4. p. 407, line 34[…] here I am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased […]

such 80

  1. p. 22, line 24It is well—against such I say not a word, I am their poet also,
  2. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
  3. p. 22, line 27Any more than such are to religion.
  4. p. 23, line 23O such themes—equalities! O divine average!
  5. p. 27, line 16For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
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  1. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
  2. p. 32, line 19I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
  3. p. 42, line 1And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
  4. p. 47, line 10What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not such a wonder,
  5. p. 51, line 24It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
  6. p. 58, line 19I tread day and night such roads.
  7. p. 112, line 8Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
  8. p. 112, line 9Such join'd unended links, each hook'd to the next,
  9. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  10. p. 123, line 17(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
  11. p. 137, line 9(Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a day, for all its names.)
  12. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.
  13. p. 168, line 10Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling,
  14. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  15. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  16. p. 197, line 5From such as now they start the scene revisiting,
  17. p. 210, line 13If you groan such groans you might balk the government cannon.
  18. p. 213, line 11Such from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
  19. p. 213, line 12Such a result so soon—and from such a beginning!
  20. p. 215, line 12You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
  21. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  22. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  23. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  24. p. 245, line 13Give me such shows—give me the streets of Manhattan!
  25. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!
  26. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  27. p. 287, line 2It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
  28. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
  29. p. 287, line 4It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
  30. p. 287, line 5It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
  31. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  32. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  33. p. 295, line 33From thee such scenes, thou stintless, lavish giver,
  34. p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
  35. 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?
  36. p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  37. p. 307, line 17See you! some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking;
  38. p. 314, line 17(Such led to thee O soul,
  39. p. 322, line 17Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?
  40. p. 322, line 19Disportest thou on waters such as those?
  41. p. 329, line 18Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
  42. p. 347, line 12Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
  43. p. 347, line 13Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
  44. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,
  45. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  46. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  47. p. 353, line 1SAUNTERING the pavement or riding the country by-road, lo, such faces!
  48. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
  49. p. 368, line 24Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;
  50. p. 370, line 22Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day,
  51. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  52. p. 396, line 13To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;
  53. p. 399, line 20For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
  54. p. 407, line 4[…] in this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a […]
  55. p. 407, line 9[…] the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances. Besides, is not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by […]
  56. p. 425, line 8[…] gone. How the soul loves to float amid such reminiscences […]
  57. p. 427, line 18[…] up that challenge and made an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now […]
  58. p. 429, line 11[…] and, as it stands, is the result of such presupposition. I should say, indeed, it were useless to attempt […]
  59. p. 430, line 10[…] the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective […]
  60. p. 430, line 15[…] never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands […]
  61. p. 430, line 22[…] and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life and art is for […]
  62. p. 433, line 3[…] in any library or indoor room—it makes such difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions […]
  63. p. 433, line 23[…] our occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem. The same thought had been […]
  64. p. 434, line 37[…] Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions. I say the profoundest service that poems or any […]
  65. p. 436, line 38[…] in time to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines with the […]
  66. p. 438, line 17[…] them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]
  67. p. 438, line 22[…] people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further […]
  68. p. 438, line 2Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo from the shore.

such-like 3

  1. p. 82, line 19Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
  2. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,

suck'd 1 today: sucked

  1. p. 204, line 15On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,

sucked see suck'd

sucking 2

  1. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,
  2. p. 265, line 18Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice,

suckled 1

  1. p. 208, line 9Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,

sudden 15

  1. p. 35, line 12The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  2. p. 168, line 18The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,
  3. p. 197, line 31Till of a sudden,
  4. p. 216, line 10Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
  5. p. 218, line 7A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
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  1. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  2. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  3. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
  4. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  5. p. 378, line 20THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,
  6. p. 389, line 2A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why,
  7. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  8. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  9. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,
  10. p. 433, line 41[…] positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national […]

suddenly 13

  1. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  2. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  3. p. 124, line 17What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
  4. p. 150, line 26The city fireman, the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
  5. p. 211, line 12SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
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  1. p. 219, line 20With her million children around her, suddenly,
  2. p. 222, line 2Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp'd cannon,
  3. p. 232, line 7But suddenly pouring about me here on every side,
  4. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  5. p. 319, line 25The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
  6. p. 325, line 7And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
  7. p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
  8. p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.

sudra 1

  1. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,

Suez 4

  1. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  2. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
  3. p. 315, line 22In the Old World the east the Suez canal,
  4. p. 316, line 30I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,

suffer 2

  1. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  2. p. 322, line 10For others' sake to suffer all?

suffer'd 6 today: suffered

  1. p. 59, line 25I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.
  2. p. 261, line 27They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not,
  3. p. 261, line 28The living remain'd and suffer'd, the mother suffer'd,
  4. p. 261, line 29And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  5. p. 261, line 30And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

suffered see suffer'd

suffering 10

  1. p. 64, line 5Embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering,
  2. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  3. p. 186, line 13They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
  4. p. 290, line 21All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
  5. p. 332, line 5The felon steps forth from the prison, the insane becomes sane, the suffering of sick persons is reliev'd,
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  1. p. 339, line 17All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself,
  2. p. 358, line 23War, sorrow, suffering gone—the rank earth purged—nothing but joy left!
  3. p. 408, line 25[…] all States,—or North or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches […]
  4. p. 411, line 36[…] visiting those at that time populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect of the […]
  5. p. 417, line 16A suffering woman saved—a baby safely born!)

suffice 1

  1. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

sufficed 1

  1. p. 29, line 16Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,

sufficiency 1

  1. p. 188, line 3The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency,

sufficient 9

  1. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  2. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
  3. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  4. p. 121, line 5The earth, that is sufficient,
  5. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
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  1. p. 264, line 16We are executive in ourselves, we are sufficient in the variety of ourselves,
  2. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
  3. p. 425, line 16[…] certainly going down—yet reaching port in a sufficient way through all discomfitures at last)—After completing my poems […]
  4. p. 429, line 27In estimating first-class song, a sufficient Nationality, or, on the other hand, what may be call'd […]

sufficiently 4

  1. p. 336, line 6The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal.
  2. p. 407, line 10[…] verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed […]
  3. p. 428, line 27[…] terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that […]
  4. p. 428, line 29[…] opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention […]

suffocate 1

  1. p. 72, line 14My lovers suffocate me,

suffocating 1

  1. p. 248, line 18I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all;

suffuse 2

  1. p. 50, line 4Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
  2. p. 388, line 22As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame, like freshier, balmier air,

suffused 1

  1. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise

suffuses 1

  1. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees […]

suffusing 1

  1. p. 181, line 27Electric, antiseptic yet, cleaving, suffusing all,

sufi 1

  1. p. 418, line 27FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi,

sugar 5

  1. p. 26, line 4Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice!
  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. 149, line 2Welcome are lands of sugar and rice,
  4. p. 164, line 16Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn, rice, hemp, hops,
  5. p. 360, line 7O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!

sugar'd 1 today: sugared

  1. p. 162, line 12Away with love-verses sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers,

sugared see sugar'd

sugar-field 2

  1. p. 40, line 8As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle,
  2. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,

sugar-house 1

  1. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,

sugar-making 1

  1. p. 294, line 5The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,

suggested 1

  1. p. 432, line 18[…] the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age is possessing […]

suggesting 1

  1. p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.

suggestion 1

  1. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)

suggestions 3

  1. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  2. p. 291, line 2All suggestions of the divine mind of man or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands,
  3. p. 392, line 3Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions,

Suggestiveness 1

  1. p. 434, line 20[…] as they stand at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not […]

suggests 1

  1. p. 427, line 3Perhaps this is in brief, or suggests, all I have sought to do. Given the Nineteenth Century […]

suicide 1

  1. p. 35, line 5The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,

suicide's 1

  1. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.

suit 1

  1. p. 401, line 11Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth:

suitable 3

  1. p. 230, line 4The cities I loved so well I abandon'd and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,
  2. p. 370, line 14(Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?)
  3. p. 429, line 24[…] cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before. It is […]

suite 2

  1. p. 295, line 18In one, along a suite of noble rooms,
  2. p. 438, line 1[…] while, and listening to the criticisms of his suite of students, he said to the latter, in answer to […]

suits 3

  1. p. 51, line 19Ah this indeed is music—this suits me.
  2. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  3. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.

sulky 3

  1. p. 364, line 1AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,
  2. p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
  3. p. 437, line 39[…] blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]

sullen 7

  1. p. 70, line 7Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,
  2. p. 70, line 11Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  3. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  4. p. 234, line 5Wearied that night we lay foil'd and sullen,
  5. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  6. p. 241, line 14And sullen hymns of defeat?
  7. p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,

sullenly 1

  1. p. 200, line 26To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing,

sultry 2

  1. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  2. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,

sum 3

  1. p. 172, line 20The sum of all known reverence I add up in you whoever you are,
  2. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
  3. p. 433, line 25[…] before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]

Sumatra 1

  1. p. 119, line 12You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!

summ'd 3 today: summed

  1. p. 12, line 27The whole or large or small summ'd, added up,
  2. p. 391, line 4My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past,
  3. p. 437, line 25[…] poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable average […]

summ'd-up 1

  1. p. 382, line 17Enough O gliding present—enough O summ'd-up past.

summed see summ'd

summer 32

  1. p. 26, line 23Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on Paumanok's sands,
  2. p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
  3. p. 32, line 19I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
  4. p. 46, line 3Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.
  5. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
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  1. p. 99, line 19Far, far in the forest, or sauntering later in summer, before I think where I go,
  2. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  3. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  4. p. 130, line 18Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
  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!
  6. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
  7. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  8. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  9. p. 197, line 36And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
  10. p. 232, line 21Here we lay encamp'd, it was this time in summer also.
  11. p. 235, line 18Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
  12. p. 241, line 10Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me,
  13. p. 259, line 19And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,
  14. p. 277, line 1AS consequent from store of summer rains,
  15. p. 278, line 10O harvest of my lands—O boundless summer growths,
  16. p. 280, line 8Nor in winter or summer my lost ones,
  17. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
  18. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  19. p. 294, line 10For spring-time is here! the summer is here! and what is this in it and from it?
  20. p. 301, line 10Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
  21. p. 329, line 24She remember'd her many a winter and many a summer,
  22. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  23. p. 330, line 4O love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me,
  24. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  25. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,
  26. p. 396, line 10With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
  27. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,

summers 6

  1. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,
  4. p. 408, line 26[…] South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands […]
  5. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  6. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a […]

summit 2

  1. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  2. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,

summons 4

  1. p. 135, line 13A man is a summons and challenge,
  2. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  3. p. 158, line 18Responsive to our summons,
  4. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,

sumptuous 2

  1. p. 287, line 5It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
  2. p. 357, line 19Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,

sun 100

  1. p. 19, line 13Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun.
  2. p. 23, line 24Warblings under the sun, usher'd as now, or at noon, or setting,
  3. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  4. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  5. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
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  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. 49, line 17Sun so generous it shall be you!
  3. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  4. p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  5. p. 69, line 22Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,
  6. p. 73, line 1My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels,
  7. p. 75, line 6And those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun.
  8. p. 78, line 22I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
  9. p. 89, line 22The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with,
  10. p. 91, line 2The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,
  11. p. 99, line 2I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
  12. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
  13. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,
  14. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  15. p. 112, line 24Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months,
  16. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  17. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  18. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  19. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  20. p. 141, line 6Evening—me in my room—the setting sun,
  21. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  22. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  23. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  24. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  25. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
  26. p. 160, line 25Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,
  27. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  28. p. 168, line 3Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure,
  29. p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
  30. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  31. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  32. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  33. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  34. p. 192, line 17Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
  35. p. 197, line 23Pour down your warmth, great sun!
  36. p. 205, line 4The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun,
  37. p. 206, line 27Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
  38. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
  39. p. 213, line 32Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
  40. p. 224, line 11Fresh and rosy red the sun is mounting high,
  41. p. 224, line 16But I am not the sea nor the red sun,
  42. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  43. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
  44. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  45. p. 232, line 25It glitter'd in the sun in full sight of the army.
  46. p. 234, line 18As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
  47. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
  48. p. 236, line 4Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,
  49. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
  50. p. 244, line 9GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
  51. p. 245, line 6Keep your splendid silent sun,
  52. p. 252, line 23Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
  53. p. 255, line 6But the hot sun of the South is to fully ripen my songs.
  54. p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
  55. p. 258, line 23Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,
  56. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  57. p. 273, line 5I have loved the earth, sun, animals, I have despised riches,
  58. p. 282, line 16Under the beaming sun and under thee.
  59. p. 292, line 8The sun was low in the west one winter day,
  60. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
  61. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,
  62. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  63. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  64. p. 305, line 11And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  65. p. 306, line 31Onward beneath the sun following its course,
  66. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  67. p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
  68. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
  69. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  70. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  71. p. 344, line 16The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,
  72. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,
  73. p. 352, line 5O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.
  74. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  75. p. 355, line 29The sun just shines on her old white head.
  76. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  77. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  78. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  79. p. 367, line 4(The sun there at the centre though conceal'd,
  80. p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
  81. p. 375, line 26I too carol the sun, usher'd or at noon, or as now, setting,
  82. p. 376, line 11O setting sun! though the time has come,
  83. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
  84. p. 387, line 4Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?
  85. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
  86. p. 389, line 19Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,
  87. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  88. p. 392, line 6Thy ample, smiling face, dash'd with the sparkling dimples of the sun,
  89. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  90. p. 396, line 8The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
  91. p. 398, line 11For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life,
  92. p. 401, line 21The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be gone, dispell'd,)
  93. p. 431, line 5[…] records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the sun of literature is in those poems for us of to-day […]
  94. p. 433, line 13[…] in the full presence of Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape and vistas, or the sea rolling […]

sunbeam 1

  1. p. 246, line 1THE last sunbeam

sunbeams 1

  1. p. 77, line 19I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,

sun-bright 1

  1. p. 315, line 11Nor vocalism of sun-bright Italy,

sunburned see sunburnt

sunburnt 5 today: sunburned

  1. p. 27, line 14Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
  2. p. 61, line 20Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
  3. p. 87, line 27The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,
  4. p. 194, line 15With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes,
  5. p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,

Sunda 1

  1. p. 114, line 24Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits,

Sunday 3

  1. p. 94, line 20I HEARD you solemn-sweet pipes of the organ as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church,
  2. p. 217, line 2I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his statements,
  3. p. 292, line 11Gather'd to Sunday church in prison walls, the keepers round,

sunder'd 1 today: sundered

  1. p. 249, line 11Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd,

sundered see sunder'd

sundown 10

  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,
  2. p. 57, line 9Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  3. p. 62, line 17Fighting at sun-down, fighting at dark,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 92, line 24Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
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  1. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
  2. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  3. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  4. p. 309, line 18Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,
  5. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,

sung 9

  1. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  2. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  3. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
  4. p. 362, line 19Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd,
  5. p. 379, line 26THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
  6. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  7. p. 427, line 10[…] or other identities. Plenty of songs had been sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another […]
  8. p. 438, line 38[…] strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]

sunk 3

  1. p. 144, line 5Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
  2. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  3. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;

sunken 1

  1. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?

sunlight 4

  1. p. 52, line 21Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
  2. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  3. 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,
  4. p. 378, line 12Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,

sunlight's 1

  1. p. 395, line 24(As perfume's, color's, sunlight's correlation:)

sunlit 6

  1. p. 107, line 12Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
  2. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  3. p. 130, line 20Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water,
  4. p. 133, line 22Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sunlit water!
  5. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
  6. p. 281, line 12Busy the far, the sunlit panorama,

sunny 7

  1. p. 168, line 18The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,
  2. p. 252, line 5Flag cerulean—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
  3. p. 294, line 2The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,
  4. p. 387, line 14Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
  5. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  6. p. 415, line 16A loving hand—a smile from the north—a sunny instant hail!
  7. p. 436, line 5[…] have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my life.) I will want […]

sunny-fine 1

  1. p. 408, line 9[…] for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel to-day almost a […]

sunrise 11

  1. p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
  2. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  3. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  4. p. 159, line 10The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the sunrise,
  5. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
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  1. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  2. p. 244, line 15Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd,
  3. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,
  4. p. 294, line 7With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at sunset,
  5. p. 389, line 3Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)*
  6. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,

suns 17

  1. p. 13, line 14(The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
  2. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  3. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
  4. p. 55, line 28Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the otter is feeding on fish,
  5. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,
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  1. p. 88, line 21They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
  2. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
  3. p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  4. p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
  5. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  6. p. 207, line 13All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
  7. p. 214, line 5Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
  8. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)
  9. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  10. p. 321, line 27Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,
  11. p. 322, line 4Greater than stars or suns,

sunset 15

  1. p. 46, line 6Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  2. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  3. p. 131, line 2The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset,
  4. p. 132, line 27River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?
  5. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
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  1. p. 133, line 24Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lower'd at sunset!
  2. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  3. p. 283, line 25The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between,
  4. p. 294, line 7With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at sunset,
  5. p. 320, line 8The sunset splendor of chivalry declining.
  6. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,
  7. p. 384, line 59[…] Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You […]
  8. p. 406, line 20[…] Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds, 413. To the Sunset Breeze, 414. (406) Old Chants, 414. A Christmas Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter […]
  9. p. 411, line 30[…] He went out with the tide and the sunset," was a phrase I heard from a surgeon describing an […]
  10. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,

sunsets 1

  1. p. 154, line 21I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,

sunshine 7

  1. p. 65, line 22Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over!
  2. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  3. p. 142, line 15O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song!
  4. p. 178, line 13Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
  5. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  6. p. 241, line 11A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
  7. p. 415, line 25Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain

sunstruck 1

  1. p. 35, line 15What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,

sun-tan 1

  1. p. 137, line 18Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems.

superb 19

  1. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
  2. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
  3. p. 110, line 12I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,
  4. p. 144, line 17The voyage down the St. Lawrence, the superb scenery, the steamers,
  5. p. 189, line 12To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
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  1. p. 219, line 11(O superb! O Manhattan, my own, my peerless!
  2. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
  3. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
  4. p. 264, line 3A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern visage accosted me,
  5. p. 272, line 22Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb,
  6. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
  7. p. 361, line 2Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
  8. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  9. p. 375, line 5In the superb vistas of death.
  10. p. 380, line 15When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
  11. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  12. p. 415, line 23The height to be superb humanity.

superber 3

  1. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
  2. p. 167, line 2For a superber race, they too to grandly fill their time,
  3. p. 348, line 25Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes,

superbest 3

  1. p. 302, line 19Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,
  2. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!

superb-faced 1

  1. p. 194, line 6Superb-faced Manhattan!

superbly 2

  1. p. 72, line 22Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
  2. p. 118, line 20You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms with me!

supercilious 1

  1. p. 229, line 6Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious.

superfluous 1

  1. p. 404, line 16E'en at the exit-door turning—charges superfluous calling back—e'en as he descends the steps,

superior 10

  1. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  2. p. 73, line 2He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 127, line 4Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
  5. p. 201, line 12The word final, superior to all,
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  1. p. 267, line 23The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,
  2. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  3. p. 321, line 31I could not launch, to those, superior universes?
  4. p. 430, line 31[…] conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral […]
  5. p. 436, line 21[…] opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality […]

superiors 1

  1. 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,

supernatural 1

  1. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,

supper 10

  1. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  2. p. 61, line 18Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
  3. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
  4. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  5. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
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  1. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  2. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  3. p. 344, line 23The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,
  4. p. 384, line 75[…] Evening Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  5. p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,

supper-fires 1

  1. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,

supper-table 1

  1. p. 283, line 14The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,

supping 1

  1. p. 128, line 6Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,

supple 4

  1. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  2. p. 55, line 8Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  3. p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,
  4. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,

suppleness 1

  1. p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,

supplied 3

  1. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
  2. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.

supplies 1

  1. p. 269, line 15He supplies what wants supplying, he checks what wants checking,

supply 2

  1. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  2. p. 434, line 39[…] is not merely to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions […]

supplying 2

  1. p. 269, line 15He supplies what wants supplying, he checks what wants checking,
  2. p. 429, line 7[…] of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without which they […]

support 1

  1. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;

supported 1

  1. p. 149, line 12The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it,

supporting 4

  1. p. 77, line 3I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
  2. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  3. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  4. p. 311, line 22Bathing, supporting, merging all the rest, maternity of all the rest,

supports 1

  1. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)

suppose 13

  1. p. 38, line 23The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listening close,
  2. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  3. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
  4. p. 103, line 14Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
  5. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
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  1. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  2. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  3. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  4. p. 214, line 9Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain'd on the journey,
  5. p. 299, line 15What do you suppose creation is?
  6. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  7. p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
  8. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?

supposed 6

  1. p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  2. p. 34, line 10Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  3. p. 97, line 23I am not what you supposed, but far different.
  4. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  5. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  6. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;

supposes 1

  1. p. 287, line 21The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs,

suppressions 1

  1. p. 436, line 35[…] and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a […]

supremacy 1

  1. p. 195, line 17I chant America the mistress, I chant a greater supremacy,

supreme 7

  1. p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  2. p. 147, line 10Yet O my soul supreme!
  3. 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.
  4. p. 226, line 14The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
  5. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,
  6. p. 264, line 25Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
  7. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,

supremes 2

  1. p. 67, line 28The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes,
  2. p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.

sure 28

  1. p. 31, line 4Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
  2. p. 37, line 25Overhand the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure,
  3. p. 96, line 24(I am not sure but the high soul of lovers welcomes death most,)
  4. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
  5. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
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  1. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  2. p. 199, line 10For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
  3. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  4. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
  5. p. 267, line 12The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
  6. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  7. p. 286, line 4I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
  8. p. 306, line 27Sure as the ship of all, the Earth itself,
  9. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
  10. p. 324, line 7O I am sure they really came from Thee,
  11. p. 342, line 16One's-self must never give way—that is the final substance—that out of all is sure,
  12. p. 342, line 18When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure?
  13. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)
  14. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  15. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  16. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  17. 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,
  18. p. 409, line 5But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)
  19. p. 431, line 10[…] from all the hitherto ages, I am not sure but I would name those old and less old songs […]

sure-enwinding 1

  1. p. 260, line 21For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.

surely 29

  1. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  2. p. 73, line 6We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
  3. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  4. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  5. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
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  1. p. 106, line 11I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
  2. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
  3. p. 175, line 9Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
  4. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  5. p. 199, line 2Surely you must know who is here, is here,
  6. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  7. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  8. p. 254, line 18Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
  9. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  10. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  11. p. 297, line 18Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her I shall follow,
  12. p. 306, line 20In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy drugg'd sleep,
  13. p. 333, line 7If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
  14. p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  15. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  16. p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
  17. p. 375, line 19How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)
  18. p. 375, line 21(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
  19. p. 392, line 12Surely some right withheld—some voice, in huge monotonous rage, of freedom-lover pent,
  20. p. 397, line 5"Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering,
  21. p. 397, line 8"All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere."
  22. p. 421, line 25Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless,
  23. p. 435, line 35[…] different. The new influences, upon the whole, are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and […]

surf 1

  1. p. 328, line 18I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.

surface 13

  1. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  2. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  3. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  4. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  5. p. 144, line 11Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
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  1. p. 167, line 25Unswerv'd by all the passing errors, perturbations of the surface;
  2. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  3. p. 183, line 31We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
  4. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
  5. p. 209, line 13Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,
  6. p. 301, line 19Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
  7. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  8. p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,

surfaces 5

  1. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  2. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  3. 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,
  4. 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.

surf-beat 1

  1. p. 392, line 2Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore,

surge 2

  1. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,
  2. p. 208, line 4Fitful, like a surge.

surgeon 2

  1. p. 53, line 12They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
  2. p. 411, line 31[…] sunset," was a phrase I heard from a surgeon describing an old sailor's death under peculiarly gentle conditions […]

surgeon's 3

  1. p. 39, line 29The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
  2. p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  3. p. 239, line 15Surgeons operating, attendants holding lights, the smell of ether, the odor of blood,

surgery 1

  1. p. 13, line 27Beyond the doctor's surgery, anatomy, beyond the chemist with his chemistry,

surging 6

  1. p. 48, line 13Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.
  2. p. 165, line 7And moving masses as wild demons surging, and lives as nothing risk'd,
  3. p. 191, line 6(Remember you surging Manhattan's crowds as you pass'd with your cortege of nobles?
  4. p. 198, line 1Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
  5. p. 356, line 14Waves, oceans musical, chaotically surging,

surly 1

  1. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;

surmount 1

  1. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,

surmounted 1

  1. p. 285, line 7Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals,

surmounting 2

  1. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,
  2. p. 410, line 15AFTER surmounting three-score and ten,

surpass'd 1 today: surpassed

  1. p. 280, line 12(Yet the heroes never surpass'd shall never return,

surpassed see surpass'd

surpasses 1

  1. p. 54, line 4And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,

surpassing 2

  1. p. 265, line 24A work remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
  2. p. 292, line 16In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn.

surprise 2

  1. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  2. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,

surrender 2

  1. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
  2. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,

surround 9

  1. p. 16, line 22They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.
  2. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  3. p. 31, line 21Trippers and askers surround me,
  4. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  5. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  6. p. 298, line 14They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade,
  7. p. 326, line 25And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  8. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,

surrounded 8

  1. p. 41, line 6The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great Secretaries,
  2. p. 83, line 13To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
  3. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  4. p. 195, line 23Commencing from this day surrounded by the world.
  5. p. 231, line 27The troops are but drilling, they are yet surrounded with smiles,
  6. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
  7. p. 322, line 13Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain'd,
  8. p. 343, line 20Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,

surroundest 1

  1. p. 182, line 17Thou too surroundest all,

surrounding 10

  1. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
  2. p. 255, line 17O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.
  3. p. 267, line 6His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
  4. p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
  5. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
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  1. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,
  2. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  3. p. 302, line 6The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,)
  4. p. 343, line 16Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
  5. p. 378, line 1Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,

surroundings 1

  1. p. 433, line 30[…] can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer […]

surrounds 1

  1. p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.

survey 3

  1. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  2. p. 155, line 10Hut, tent, landing, survey,
  3. p. 270, line 27He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,

surveying 3

  1. p. 183, line 31We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving,
  2. p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,
  3. p. 376, line 27But I, my life surveying, closing,

survived 1

  1. p. 397, line 18Enough that they've survived at all—long life's unflinching ones!

survivors 1

  1. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,

susceptible 1

  1. p. 123, line 22Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,

suspect 7

  1. p. 109, line 14I now suspect that is not all;
  2. p. 109, line 15I now suspect there is something fierce in you eligible to burst forth,
  3. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  4. p. 289, line 17I suspect I shall meet them there,
  5. p. 289, line 18I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.
  6. p. 337, line 9Do you suspect death? if I were to suspect death I should die now,

suspend 1

  1. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!

suspended 4

  1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  2. p. 207, line 3Sluggish existences grazing there suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
  3. p. 310, line 1IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
  4. p. 411, line 2Let it remain back there on its nail suspended,

suspending 1

  1. p. 283, line 1And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,

suspense 2

  1. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;
  2. p. 400, line 15To the wounded, the fallen, the heat, the suspense,

suspicion 2

  1. p. 337, line 8Then indeed suspicion of death.
  2. p. 349, line 24The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;

suspicious 2

  1. p. 97, line 26The way is suspicious, the result uncertain, perhaps destructive,
  2. p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,

Susquehanna 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,

sustain'd 2 today: sustained

  1. p. 81, line 2From the long sustain'd kiss upon the mouth or bosom,
  2. p. 219, line 23A shock electric, the night sustain'd it,

sustained see sustain'd

sustenance 5

  1. p. 72, line 8Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
  2. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  3. p. 129, line 15The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,
  4. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  5. p. 357, line 10Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,

Swabian 1

  1. p. 118, line 28You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!

swags 1

  1. p. 38, line 1The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses, the block swags underneath on its tied-over chain,

swallow 3

  1. p. 59, line 24All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine,
  2. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  3. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,

swallowing 1

  1. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,

swam 2

  1. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  2. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,

swamp 5

  1. p. 140, line 6Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp,
  2. p. 256, line 4In the swamp in secluded recesses,
  3. p. 257, line 24Sing on there in the swamp,
  4. p. 260, line 3Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness,
  5. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,

swamp-cedars 1

  1. p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,

swamp-perfume 1

  1. p. 261, line 13Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume,

swamps 4

  1. p. 259, line 5Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
  2. p. 359, line 26Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands or through swamps,
  3. 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;)
  4. 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,

swan 2

  1. p. 57, line 11Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,
  2. p. 313, line 4Song of the dying swan, Fernando's heart is breaking.

swap 2

  1. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
  2. p. 268, line 2Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation life,

swarm 1

  1. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;

swarm'd 1 today: swarmed

  1. p. 368, line 11Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon,

swarmed see swarm'd

swarming 10

  1. p. 150, line 20Spar-makers in the spar-yard, the swarming row of well-grown apprentices,
  2. p. 168, line 24A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere,
  3. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  4. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
  5. p. 232, line 28And the transports swarming with soldiers.
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  1. p. 236, line 3The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press on,
  2. p. 267, line 12The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
  3. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
  4. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  5. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,

swarms 5

  1. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,
  2. p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
  3. p. 272, line 8The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes,
  4. p. 301, line 20Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
  5. p. 396, line 15I see swarms of stalwart chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,

swart 1

  1. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,

swart-cheek'd 1

  1. p. 193, line 9Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys,

swarthy 1

  1. p. 105, line 14BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes,

swash 1

  1. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,

swathed 2

  1. p. 118, line 3I see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
  2. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)

swathing 1

  1. p. 436, line 35[…] consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only […]

swathing-garment 1

  1. p. 278, line 28Thou groan'st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment,

sway'd 1 today: swayed

  1. p. 393, line 24Wherever Freedom, pois'd by Toleration, sway'd by Law,

swayed see sway'd

swaying 2

  1. p. 253, line 12Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left,
  2. p. 263, line 2For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

sways 1

  1. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,

swear 24

  1. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  2. p. 75, line 13I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house,
  3. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  4. p. 121, line 11I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
  5. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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  1. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  2. p. 179, line 9I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth,
  3. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  4. p. 179, line 15I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words,
  5. p. 179, line 19I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
  6. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,
  7. p. 180, line 19I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail,
  8. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  9. p. 273, line 20I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things,
  10. p. 273, line 26I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals,
  11. p. 274, line 4I swear I will stand by my own nativity, pious or impious so be it;
  12. p. 274, line 5I swear I am charm'd with nothing except nativity,
  13. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  14. p. 274, line 10I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
  15. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  16. p. 330, line 26I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,
  17. p. 331, line 1I swear they are all beautiful,
  18. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  19. p. 337, line 22I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

swearing 1

  1. p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,

sweat 9

  1. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  2. p. 59, line 28The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence, blowing, cover'd with sweat,
  3. p. 64, line 11(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)
  4. p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
  5. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
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  1. p. 162, line 31Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
  2. p. 236, line 6With artillery interspers'd—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
  3. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  4. p. 414, line 4Me, old, alone, sick, weak-down, melted-worn with sweat;

sweat-drops 1

  1. p. 119, line 23You own'd persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!

sweated 2

  1. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  2. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,

sweating 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. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  3. p. 239, line 17Some on the bare ground, some on planks or stretchers, some in the death-spasm sweating,
  4. p. 408, line 25[…] or South—the wounded, suffering, dying—the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the […]

sweatings 1

  1. 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,

sweats 2

  1. p. 40, line 24The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, (the purchaser higgling about the odd cent;)
  2. p. 90, line 24The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,

sweaty 6

  1. p. 49, line 19You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
  2. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
  3. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  4. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  5. p. 280, line 19Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty march,
  6. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,

Swede 2

  1. p. 118, line 21You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
  2. p. 330, line 15The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

sweep 7

  1. p. 79, line 11The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
  2. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  3. p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
  4. p. 239, line 13Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all,
  5. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  6. p. 390, line 6How they sweep down and out! how they mutter!
  7. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,

sweeping 5

  1. p. 13, line 31Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
  2. p. 68, line 4My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  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. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,
  5. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,

sweep-oars 1

  1. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,

sweeps 2

  1. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
  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;

sweep-seines 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;

sweet 64

  1. p. 11, line 13Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
  2. p. 31, line 7Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  3. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  4. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  5. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
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  1. p. 87, line 18The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
  2. p. 92, line 27Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,
  3. p. 96, line 26Grow up taller sweet leaves that I may see! grow up out of my breast!
  4. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,
  5. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  6. p. 125, line 11However sweet these laid-up stores, however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here,
  7. p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
  8. 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;
  9. p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
  10. p. 147, line 16Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
  11. p. 149, line 3Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white potato and sweet potato,
  12. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  13. p. 159, line 19And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.
  14. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,
  15. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
  16. p. 185, line 29Not for delectations sweet,
  17. p. 201, line 7The messenger there arous'd, the fire, the sweet hell within,
  18. p. 201, line 33(Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside,)
  19. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  20. p. 238, line 10Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
  21. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  22. p. 240, line 12Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
  23. p. 243, line 7(Come sweet death! be persuaded O beautiful death!
  24. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  25. p. 252, line 14The drum-corps' rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge,
  26. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  27. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  28. p. 260, line 20And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
  29. p. 265, line 18Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice,
  30. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  31. p. 280, line 31With saner wars, sweet wars, life-giving wars.
  32. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
  33. p. 287, line 2It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
  34. p. 290, line 21All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
  35. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  36. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  37. p. 309, line 2If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd,
  38. p. 311, line 27The measureless sweet vocalists of ages,
  39. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!
  40. p. 315, line 1And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,
  41. p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
  42. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  43. 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,
  44. p. 367, line 13Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers,
  45. p. 372, line 16Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living—sweet are the musical voices sounding,
  46. p. 372, line 17But sweet, ah sweet, are the dead with their silent eyes.
  47. p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
  48. p. 376, line 19I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks, the closed eyes in the coffin;)
  49. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
  50. p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
  51. p. 379, line 4Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,
  52. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  53. p. 387, line 22How sweet the silent backward tracings!
  54. p. 395, line 21Fernando's heart, Manrico's passionate call, Ernani's, sweet Gennaro's,
  55. p. 398, line 15For shelter, wine and meat—for sweet appreciation,
  56. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,

sweet-air'd 2

  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. 295, line 6After his day's work done, cleanly, sweet-air'd, the gaslight burning,

sweet-blooded 2

  1. p. 163, line 4Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality,
  2. p. 381, line 10I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,

sweet-breath'd 1

  1. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,

sweeten 1

  1. p. 236, line 22Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind,

sweeter 7

  1. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  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. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  4. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,
  5. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  6. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  7. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.

sweetest 6

  1. p. 175, line 11In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
  2. p. 201, line 31The word of the sweetest song and all songs,
  3. p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
  4. p. 272, line 14He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run,
  5. p. 438, line 38[…] and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]

sweet-flag 1

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

sweet-flesh'd 1

  1. p. 84, line 7Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.

sweet-heart 2

  1. p. 34, line 21For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  2. p. 75, line 2Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,

sweetly 1

  1. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,

sweetness 5

  1. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  2. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  3. p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,
  4. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)
  5. p. 401, line 18Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,

sweets 1

  1. p. 57, line 2At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice through a straw,

sweet-scented 1

  1. p. 77, line 7I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,

sweet-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.

swell 6

  1. p. 204, line 4From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
  2. p. 229, line 18What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what comes here,
  3. p. 384, line 25[…] Had I the Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You […]
  4. p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
  5. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  6. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,

swell'd 2 today: swelled

  1. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  2. p. 391, line 25Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.

swelled see swell'd

swellest 1

  1. p. 322, line 3And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.

swelling 8

  1. p. 13, line 15Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use,)
  2. p. 31, line 16Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty,
  3. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  4. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  5. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
  6. p. 320, line 7Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,
  7. p. 338, line 22Mournfully slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing,
  8. p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,

swells 2

  1. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  2. p. 189, line 8It reaches hither, it swells me to joyful madness,

swelter 1

  1. p. 351, line 1In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in disease shalt swelter,

sweltering 1

  1. p. 194, line 23The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients,

swept 3

  1. p. 44, line 26I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
  2. p. 293, line 6One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd faces,
  3. p. 295, line 7The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove.

swift 24

  1. p. 17, line 13Lo, I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
  2. p. 28, line 1Expanding and swift, henceforth,
  3. p. 65, line 7Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
  4. p. 93, line 21O why sting me for a swift moment only?
  5. p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
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  1. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  2. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
  3. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  4. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  5. p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
  6. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  7. p. 178, line 17Swift, glad, content, unbereav'd, nothing losing,
  8. p. 186, line 7Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places,
  9. p. 204, line 21O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!
  10. p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
  11. p. 238, line 16Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
  12. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  13. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  14. 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,
  15. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,
  16. p. 359, line 9Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering;
  17. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  18. p. 370, line 18I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,

swiftly 23

  1. p. 19, line 18As in a dream they change, they swiftly fill,
  2. p. 22, line 25But behold! such swiftly subside, burnt up for religion's sake,
  3. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  4. 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,
  5. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,
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  1. p. 129, line 19The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away,
  2. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
  3. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  4. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
  5. p. 200, line 22The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,
  6. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  7. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
  8. p. 238, line 24Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day brighten'd,
  9. p. 254, line 18Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
  10. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  11. p. 316, line 33I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
  12. p. 321, line 32Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,
  13. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  14. p. 328, line 11Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  15. 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,
  16. p. 379, line 20She swiftly courses from the shore,
  17. p. 381, line 20Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,
  18. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,

swift-moving 1

  1. p. 349, line 21Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving, fructifying all,

swiftness 1

  1. p. 142, line 13O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!

swift-rising 1

  1. p. 225, line 14I myself move abroad swift-rising flying then,

swift-running 2

  1. p. 242, line 10Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river they fade,
  2. p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.

swift-streaking 1

  1. p. 51, line 11The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,

swift-swimming 1

  1. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;

swim 9

  1. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  2. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  3. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  4. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
  5. p. 206, line 6Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
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  1. p. 301, line 22The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them,
  2. p. 348, line 19With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or swim with thee,
  3. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  4. p. 394, line 11What passions, winnings, losses, ardors, swim thy waters!

swimmer 5

  1. p. 74, line 18Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
  2. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
  3. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  4. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  5. p. 330, line 17The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyé, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the money-maker,

swimmers 4

  1. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
  2. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  3. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,

swimming 9

  1. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
  2. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  3. p. 87, line 24Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
  4. p. 93, line 8We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
  5. p. 129, line 19The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away,
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  1. p. 139, line 11In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,
  2. p. 279, line 4Thou, bathed, choked, swimming in plenty,
  3. p. 318, line 6O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
  4. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,

swimming-bath 2

  1. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  2. p. 146, line 21O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore,

swims 3

  1. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
  2. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  3. p. 237, line 11All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only,

swine 1

  1. p. 281, line 16Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine,

swing 7

  1. p. 37, line 25Overhand the hammers swing, overhand so slow, overhand so sure,
  2. p. 77, line 26Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  3. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
  4. p. 192, line 17Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
  5. p. 282, line 4Yet but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security,
  6. p. 328, line 9The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll him, swing him, turn him,
  7. p. 359, line 14By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.

swinging 5

  1. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,
  2. p. 130, line 27The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
  3. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  4. p. 164, line 7Behold thy sturdy blacksmiths swinging their sledges,
  5. p. 359, line 16Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night,

swings 3

  1. p. 77, line 26Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  2. p. 192, line 15All swings around us, there is as much darkness as light,
  3. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,

swirl 1

  1. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,

swirling 1

  1. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,

Swiss 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,

Switzerland 1

  1. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.

swollen 2

  1. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
  2. p. 250, line 17Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,

swoops 1

  1. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

sword 6

  1. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  2. p. 232, line 24By his staff surrounded the General stood in the middle, he held up his unsheath'd sword,
  3. p. 248, line 16Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,)
  4. p. 274, line 1(Mother! with subtle sense severe, with the naked sword in your hand,
  5. p. 365, line 23A flash significant as of a sword,
  6. p. 367, line 8I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand,

swordless 1

  1. p. 391, line 20The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,

swords 2

  1. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  2. p. 324, line 19Haply the swords I know may there indeed be turn'd to reaping-tools,

sword-shaped 1

  1. p. 226, line 29Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war,

sworn 3

  1. p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
  2. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
  3. p. 287, line 17For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,

swung 1

  1. p. 36, line 17Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,

sycamore-trees 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;

sycophant 1

  1. p. 212, line 5Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.

syllable 1

  1. p. 128, line 16Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,

syllabled 1

  1. 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,

syllables 2

  1. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  2. p. 396, line 13To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;

sylvan 1

  1. p. 149, line 13The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for a garden,

symbol 4

  1. p. 77, line 25It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
  2. p. 223, line 24(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
  3. p. 306, line 8Orb not of France alone, pale symbol of my soul, its dearest hopes,
  4. p. 368, line 5Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,

sympathies 1

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

sympathy 8

  1. p. 46, line 27I am he attesting sympathy,
  2. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  3. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  4. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  5. p. 145, line 5To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer—to feel his sympathy!
  6. p. 303, line 6Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy;
  7. p. 418, line 11The blossoms rapidly blooming, sympathy, help, love,

symphonies 2

  1. p. 313, line 10I hear those odes, symphonies, operas,
  2. p. 314, line 21Or, under the high roof of some colossal hall, the symphonies, oratorios of Beethoven, Handel, or Haydn,

symphony 2

  1. p. 388, line 10Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
  2. p. 436, line 26[…] relations, bearings, significance—like the clef of a symphony. At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the […]

symptoms 1

  1. p. 436, line 31Universal as are certain facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all times, there is nothing so […]

Syria 1

  1. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,

Syrian 1

  1. p. 119, line 5You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk to stand once on Syrian ground!

system 1

  1. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,

systematic 1

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

systems 6

  1. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  2. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  3. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  4. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
  5. p. 321, line 27Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,
  6. 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,

systole 1

  1. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,