Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 16, line 5But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
  2. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  3. p. 19, line 14See revolving the globe,
  4. p. 19, line 17See, vast trackless spaces,
  5. p. 19, line 21See, projected through time,
  6. p. 25, line 8Was somebody asking to see the soul?
  7. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  8. p. 28, line 8See, steamers steaming through my poems,
  9. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
  10. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  11. 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,
  12. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  13. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  14. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  15. p. 28, line 15See, through Atlantica's depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return'd,
  16. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  17. p. 28, line 17See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—see, the numberless factories,
  18. p. 28, line 18See, mechanics busy at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses,
  19. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  20. p. 31, line 14I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  21. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  22. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  23. p. 34, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  24. p. 37, line 8Where are you off to, lady? for I see you,
  25. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  26. p. 39, line 4I see in them and myself the same old law.
  27. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
  28. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  29. p. 45, line 4I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
  30. p. 50, line 3Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
  31. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  32. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  33. p. 60, line 28I take part, I see and hear the whole,
  34. p. 62, line 21They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
  35. p. 64, line 6See myself in prison shaped like another man,
  36. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  37. p. 71, line 22Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
  38. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  39. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  40. p. 73, line 10See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,
  41. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  42. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  43. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  44. p. 77, line 3I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
  45. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  46. p. 82, line 4To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
  47. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
  48. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  49. p. 84, line 16As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
  50. p. 84, line 17As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
  51. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  52. p. 85, line 24They shall be stript that you may see them.
  53. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  54. p. 88, line 18I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
  55. p. 88, line 19I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
  56. p. 94, line 19I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
  57. p. 96, line 26Grow up taller sweet leaves that I may see! grow up out of my breast!
  58. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  59. p. 98, line 21Already you see I have escaped from you.
  60. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
  61. p. 102, line 4See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
  62. p. 102, line 5Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
  63. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  64. p. 106, line 18I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
  65. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  66. p. 113, line 20What do you see Walt Whitman?
  67. p. 113, line 22I see a great round wonder rolling through space,
  68. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  69. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  70. p. 114, line 2I see the curious rapid change of the light and shade,
  71. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  72. p. 114, line 4I see plenteous waters,
  73. p. 114, line 5I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,
  74. p. 114, line 6I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,
  75. p. 114, line 7I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,
  76. p. 114, line 8I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,
  77. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
  78. p. 114, line 10I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar,
  79. p. 114, line 11I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,
  80. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
  81. 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,
  82. p. 115, line 9I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth,
  83. p. 115, line 10I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,
  84. p. 115, line 11I see them in Asia and in Africa.
  85. p. 115, line 12I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,
  86. p. 115, line 13I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
  87. p. 115, line 14I see the long river-stripes of the earth,
  88. p. 115, line 15I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,
  89. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
  90. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
  91. p. 115, line 18I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder,
  92. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,
  93. p. 115, line 20I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
  94. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  95. p. 115, line 22I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
  96. p. 115, line 23I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
  97. p. 115, line 24I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
  98. p. 115, line 25I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain,
  99. p. 115, line 26I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.
  100. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  101. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  102. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  103. p. 116, line 4I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head,
  104. p. 116, line 5I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me,
  105. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  106. p. 116, line 9I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
  107. p. 116, line 10I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
  108. p. 116, line 11I see the places of the sagas,
  109. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
  110. p. 116, line 13I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,
  111. p. 116, line 14I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,
  112. 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.
  113. p. 116, line 16I see the steppes of Asia,
  114. p. 116, line 17I see the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs,
  115. p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,
  116. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,
  117. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.
  118. p. 116, line 21I see the highlands of Abyssinia,
  119. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
  120. p. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.
  121. p. 117, line 1I see the Brazilian vaquero,
  122. p. 117, line 2I see the Bolivian ascending mount Sorata,
  123. p. 117, line 3I see the Wacho crossing the plains, I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,
  124. p. 117, line 4I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
  125. p. 117, line 5I see the regions of snow and ice,
  126. p. 117, line 6I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,
  127. p. 117, line 7I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance,
  128. p. 117, line 8I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,
  129. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  130. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.
  131. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  132. p. 117, line 19I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries,
  133. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.
  134. p. 117, line 21I see African and Asiatic towns,
  135. p. 117, line 22I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,
  136. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,
  137. p. 117, line 24I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,
  138. p. 117, line 25I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,
  139. p. 117, line 26I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat,
  140. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,
  141. p. 118, line 1I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks,
  142. p. 118, line 3I see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
  143. p. 118, line 5I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,
  144. p. 118, line 6I see all the prisoners in the prisons,
  145. p. 118, line 7I see the defective human bodies of the earth,
  146. p. 118, line 11I see male and female everywhere,
  147. p. 118, line 12I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
  148. p. 118, line 13I see the constructiveness of my race,
  149. p. 118, line 14I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,
  150. p. 118, line 15I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately,
  151. p. 122, line 21I think whoever I see must be happy.
  152. p. 123, line 14Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
  153. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  154. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  155. p. 127, line 9To see no possession but you may possess it, enjoying all without labor or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
  156. p. 129, line 10FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face!
  157. p. 129, line 11Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
  158. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  159. p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
  160. p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
  161. p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
  162. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  163. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  164. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  165. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  166. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
  167. p. 145, line 18I see the harpooneer standing up, I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;
  168. p. 145, line 20Again I see him rise to breathe, we row close again,
  169. p. 145, line 21I see a lance driven through his side, press'd deep, turn'd in the wound,
  170. p. 145, line 22Again we back off, I see him settle again, the life is leaving him fast,
  171. 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,
  172. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  173. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  174. p. 154, line 16I see the European headsman,
  175. p. 154, line 21I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,
  176. p. 154, line 22I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
  177. p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
  178. p. 154, line 28I see the blood wash'd entirely away from the axe,
  179. p. 155, line 2I see the headsman withdraw and become useless,
  180. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  181. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  182. p. 158, line 30I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her,
  183. p. 159, line 20I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigré, (having it is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
  184. p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
  185. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  186. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  187. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  188. p. 162, line 23For every man to see to it that he really do something, for every woman too;
  189. p. 163, line 30See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,
  190. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  191. p. 163, line 32See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.
  192. p. 164, line 12See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
  193. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  194. p. 169, line 9I see the genius of the modern, child of the real and ideal,
  195. p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
  196. p. 171, line 1All these I see, but nigher and farther the same I see,
  197. p. 173, line 13Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
  198. p. 175, line 6I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop,
  199. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  200. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  201. p. 179, line 15I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words,
  202. p. 179, line 19I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
  203. p. 182, line 12That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
  204. p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
  205. p. 184, line 17See my children, resolute children,
  206. p. 187, line 11Underneath them and within them I see you lurk,
  207. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  208. p. 190, line 15O I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
  209. p. 192, line 25I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,
  210. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
  211. p. 198, line 32O night! do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
  212. p. 198, line 33What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
  213. p. 199, line 10For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
  214. p. 203, line 28(See, from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last,
  215. p. 204, line 1See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
  216. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  217. p. 210, line 6The old graveyards of the hills have hurried to see!
  218. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  219. p. 210, line 16See how well dress'd, see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  220. p. 212, line 8Whose face and eyes none may see,
  221. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  222. p. 213, line 23Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know,
  223. p. 214, line 10(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
  224. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  225. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
  226. p. 215, line 16I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
  227. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  228. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  229. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,
  230. p. 216, line 3See, hear, and am silent.
  231. p. 217, line 10I SEE the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother,
  232. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  233. p. 219, line 4Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;
  234. p. 223, line 18Words no more, for hearken and see,
  235. p. 224, line 5Nothing my babe you see in the sky,
  236. p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
  237. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  238. p. 225, line 10I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,
  239. p. 225, line 16I do not deny the precious results of peace, I see populous cities with wealth incalculable,
  240. p. 225, line 17I see numberless farms, I see the farmers working in their fields or barns,
  241. p. 225, line 18I see mechanics working, I see buildings everywhere founded, going up, or finish'd,
  242. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  243. p. 225, line 20I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
  244. p. 225, line 21I see far in the West the immense area of grain, I dwell awhile hovering,
  245. p. 225, line 23Sweeping the whole I see the countless profit, the busy gatherings, earn'd wages,
  246. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  247. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  248. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  249. p. 228, line 11I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not,
  250. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  251. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  252. p. 232, line 19I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river to bay,
  253. p. 234, line 28See—as the annual round returns the phantoms return,
  254. p. 235, line 17I SEE before me now a traveling army halting,
  255. p. 237, line 20See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
  256. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  257. p. 239, line 10By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down,
  258. p. 239, line 20These I resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor,
  259. p. 240, line 4Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
  260. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  261. p. 243, line 16And the yellow-blue countenance see.
  262. p. 245, line 4(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
  263. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
  264. p. 245, line 12Let me see new ones every day—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!
  265. p. 246, line 9I see a sad procession,
  266. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  267. p. 248, line 10I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass,
  268. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  269. p. 248, line 17I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,)
  270. p. 249, line 3With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles, (these in my vision I hear or see,)
  271. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  272. p. 251, line 9I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul,
  273. p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
  274. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  275. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  276. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  277. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  278. p. 273, line 20I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things,
  279. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  280. p. 275, line 15I will see if I am not as majestic as they,
  281. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  282. p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,
  283. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  284. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  285. p. 281, line 5I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last,
  286. p. 281, line 7I see the heroes at other toils,
  287. p. 281, line 8I see well-wielded in their hands the better weapons.
  288. p. 281, line 9I see where the Mother of All,
  289. p. 285, line 2The divine woman, her body, I see the body, I look on it alone,
  290. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  291. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  292. p. 298, line 1I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck,
  293. p. 299, line 3I see what you do not—I know what you do not.)
  294. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  295. 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?
  296. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  297. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
  298. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  299. p. 307, line 17See you! some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking;
  300. p. 307, line 19Some have wide flaring horns (a good sign)—see you! the bright hides,
  301. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
  302. p. 308, line 5And these I see, these sparkling eyes,
  303. p. 311, line 13I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,
  304. p. 312, line 27I see poor crazed Lucia's eyes' unnatural gleam,
  305. p. 312, line 29I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden,
  306. p. 313, line 17I see religious dances old and new,
  307. p. 313, line 19I see the crusaders marching bearing the cross on high, to the martial clang of cymbals,
  308. p. 313, line 21I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
  309. p. 313, line 22Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,
  310. p. 313, line 25I see again the wild old Corybantian dance, the performers wounding each other,
  311. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  312. p. 313, line 29I see the worshippers within, nor form nor sermon, argument nor word,
  313. p. 316, line 30I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd,
  314. p. 316, line 31I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van,
  315. p. 317, line 2I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,
  316. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
  317. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,
  318. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,
  319. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  320. p. 317, line 11I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,
  321. p. 317, line 12I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,
  322. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  323. p. 320, line 16Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself,
  324. p. 325, line 7And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
  325. p. 326, line 14I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  326. p. 326, line 20I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
  327. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  328. p. 327, line 21A shroud I see and I am the shroud, I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,
  329. p. 328, line 1I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
  330. p. 328, line 3I see his white body, I see his undaunted eyes,
  331. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  332. p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
  333. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  334. p. 338, line 21I see, just see skyward, great cloud-masses,
  335. p. 344, line 19You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,
  336. p. 345, line 12O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,
  337. p. 345, line 13I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
  338. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  339. p. 353, line 15I see them and complain not, and am content with all.
  340. p. 354, line 11I see your rounded never-erased flow,
  341. p. 354, line 12I see 'neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
  342. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
  343. p. 354, line 24I see the high pioneer-caps, see staves of runners clearing the way,
  344. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,
  345. p. 357, line 6I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang,
  346. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  347. p. 357, line 24I see the grime-faced cannoneers, I mark the rosy flash amid the smoke, I hear the cracking of the guns;
  348. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
  349. p. 358, line 5I see the enslaved, the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the whole earth,
  350. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  351. p. 360, line 3I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;
  352. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
  353. p. 360, line 20Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
  354. p. 361, line 1I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
  355. p. 361, line 2Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
  356. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  357. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  358. p. 368, line 1For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
  359. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
  360. p. 368, line 7WHAT best I see in thee,
  361. p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
  362. p. 370, line 10Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
  363. p. 370, line 11I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing,
  364. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,
  365. p. 370, line 13I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage,
  366. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  367. p. 370, line 18I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,
  368. p. 370, line 19I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,
  369. p. 370, line 20I see the landmarks of European kings removed,
  370. p. 370, line 21I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;)
  371. 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,
  372. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)
  373. p. 374, line 27Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch, to the last.
  374. p. 376, line 9For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
  375. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
  376. p. 376, line 17(I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still,
  377. p. 379, line 26THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
  378. p. 392, line 4(I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,)
  379. p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,
  380. p. 396, line 15I see swarms of stalwart chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,
  381. p. 401, line 7The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
  382. p. 401, line 9I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,
  383. p. 407, line 29[…] and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming […]
  384. p. 416, line 9Again I see the stalwart ranks on-filing, rising—I hear the rhythmic tramp of the armies;)
  385. p. 422, line 4Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
  386. p. 427, line 16[…] songs and myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly taken up […]
  387. p. 427, line 37[…] everything else has changed. As I write, I see in an article on Wordsworth, in one of the current […]
  388. p. 429, line 31[…] element. One needs only a little penetration to see, at more or less removes, the material facts of their […]
  389. p. 434, line 16[…] indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were […]
  390. p. 435, line 27[…] a certain liability accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's […]