Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “sea”

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  1. p. 10, line 5IN cabin'd ships at sea,
  2. p. 10, line 27Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
  3. p. 13, line 2Of vanish'd lands, of all the reigns of kings across the sea,
  4. p. 15, line 13Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,)
  5. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
  6. p. 16, line 19LO, the unbounded sea,
  7. p. 20, line 5Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea,
  8. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  9. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  10. p. 43, line 14And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
  11. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  12. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  13. p. 46, line 14You sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean,
  14. p. 46, line 20Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,
  15. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
  16. p. 46, line 22Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
  17. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
  18. p. 59, line 2We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
  19. p. 65, line 15The mountains? prairie-life, bush-life? or sailor from the sea?
  20. p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
  21. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  22. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  23. p. 83, line 15I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
  24. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  25. p. 91, line 1The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
  26. p. 92, line 21But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
  27. p. 93, line 8We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
  28. p. 95, line 4Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;
  29. p. 98, line 8Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island,
  30. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
  31. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  32. p. 105, line 19We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
  33. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  34. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  35. p. 113, line 14I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea at Okotsk,
  36. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
  37. 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,
  38. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,
  39. p. 114, line 18The White sea, and the sea around Greenland.
  40. p. 119, line 14All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
  41. p. 130, line 6Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring-in of the flood-tide, the falling-back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
  42. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  43. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  44. p. 139, line 7The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,
  45. p. 148, line 6O to sail to sea in a ship!
  46. p. 149, line 15The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
  47. p. 150, line 25The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
  48. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  49. p. 154, line 13Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
  50. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  51. p. 163, line 28Behold, the sea itself,
  52. p. 166, line 6In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country,
  53. p. 172, line 6Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  54. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
  55. p. 178, line 19The divine ship sails the divine sea.
  56. p. 178, line 21The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
  57. p. 181, line 17(As a much-tacking ship upon the sea,)
  58. p. 188, line 9I walk'd the shores of my Eastern sea,
  59. p. 188, line 23Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
  60. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  61. p. 193, line 8OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
  62. p. 194, line 26The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond,
  63. p. 195, line 14I chant the world on my Western sea,
  64. p. 197, line 36And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
  65. p. 198, line 1Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
  66. p. 198, line 30O madly the sea pushes upon the land,
  67. p. 199, line 21O under that moon where she droops almost down into the sea!
  68. p. 199, line 25And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,
  69. p. 200, line 5O brown halo in the sky near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
  70. p. 200, line 6O troubled reflection in the sea!
  71. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
  72. p. 201, line 6By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,
  73. p. 201, line 16Whereto answering, the sea,
  74. p. 201, line 34The sea whisper'd me.
  75. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  76. p. 205, line 1Far, far at sea,
  77. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
  78. p. 206, line 30Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
  79. p. 208, line 8Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations,
  80. p. 208, line 13Flaunt out O sea your separate flags of nations!
  81. p. 208, line 22WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
  82. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  83. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  84. p. 224, line 12On floats the sea in distant blue careering through its channels,
  85. p. 224, line 13On floats the wind over the breast of the sea setting in toward land,
  86. p. 224, line 16But I am not the sea nor the red sun,
  87. p. 226, line 3Discarding peace over all the sea and land.
  88. p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
  89. p. 227, line 2Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
  90. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  91. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
  92. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  93. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  94. p. 229, line 14What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?
  95. p. 230, line 12No more the mountains roam or sail the stormy sea.
  96. p. 231, line 3City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
  97. p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
  98. p. 249, line 10As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)
  99. p. 249, line 13Then hither me across the sea the cruel slaver brought.
  100. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  101. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
  102. p. 258, line 5Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the prairies meeting,
  103. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  104. p. 277, line 4Or subterranean sea-rills making for the sea,
  105. p. 277, line 22Or from the sea of Time, collecting vasting all, I bring,
  106. p. 278, line 17The heaving sea, the waves upon the shore, the musical, strong waves,
  107. p. 284, line 22The winds favor'd and the sea sail'd it,
  108. p. 285, line 18I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
  109. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,
  110. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
  111. p. 296, line 16This heart's geography's map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
  112. p. 301, line 21To me the sea is a continual miracle,
  113. p. 317, line 16Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,
  114. p. 322, line 27Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!
  115. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
  116. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
  117. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  118. p. 337, line 21The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
  119. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  120. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
  121. p. 342, line 10I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the minutest points,
  122. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
  123. p. 345, line 15To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea,
  124. p. 352, line 3The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
  125. p. 353, line 22This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  126. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
  127. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
  128. p. 376, line 1As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,
  129. p. 384, line 32[…] All.) Election Day, November, 1884, 391 With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea, 392 Death of General Grant, 392 Red Jacket (from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument […]
  130. p. 385, line 3A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
  131. p. 385, line 10Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)
  132. p. 389, line 13These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
  133. p. 392, line 1With husky-haughty lips, O sea!
  134. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  135. p. 399, line 4Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
  136. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,
  137. p. 404, line 2O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;
  138. p. 418, line 12From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
  139. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
  140. p. 421, line 24(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in the heavens,)
  141. p. 425, line 6[…] or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes on land or sea, is the résumé of them, or any of them, long […]
  142. p. 433, line 10[…] shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd since why I was […]
  143. p. 433, line 14[…] with the far-spreading landscape and vistas, or the sea rolling in […]