Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “sing”

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  1. p. 9, line 1ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
  2. p. 9, line 3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  3. p. 9, line 5The Female equally with the Male I sing.
  4. p. 9, line 8The Modern Man I sing.
  5. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  6. p. 14, line 10No special strains to sing, none for itself,
  7. p. 14, line 13FOR him I sing,
  8. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  9. p. 17, line 16STILL though the one I sing,
  10. p. 21, line 22I will sing the song of companionship,
  11. p. 23, line 9The following chants each for its kind I sing.
  12. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  13. p. 29, line 6I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
  14. p. 31, line 14I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
  15. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  16. p. 75, line 4First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
  17. p. 81, line 16I SING the body electric,
  18. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  19. p. 104, line 25Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,
  20. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  21. p. 143, line 17To hear the birds sing once more,
  22. p. 147, line 23For not life's joys alone I sing, repeating—the joy of death!
  23. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
  24. p. 163, line 17Thee, ever thee, I sing.
  25. p. 180, line 14Say on, sayers! sing on, singers!
  26. p. 181, line 2Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
  27. p. 181, line 3Sing me the universal.
  28. p. 182, line 29Give me O God to sing that thought,
  29. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  30. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  31. p. 189, line 10I will yet sing a song for you ma femme.
  32. p. 190, line 22I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
  33. p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
  34. p. 191, line 1I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
  35. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
  36. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
  37. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  38. p. 191, line 8Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my bay,
  39. p. 191, line 10Her moving swiftly surrounded by myriads of small craft I forget not to sing;
  40. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  41. p. 193, line 15But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad.
  42. p. 197, line 12A reminiscence sing.
  43. p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,
  44. p. 200, line 29Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
  45. p. 203, line 3Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
  46. p. 218, line 5Death, many deaths I'll sing.
  47. p. 221, line 3Mannahatta a-march—and it's O to sing it well!
  48. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
  49. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  50. p. 222, line 27To the north betaking myself to sing there arctic songs,
  51. p. 223, line 2To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)
  52. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  53. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
  54. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)
  55. p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
  56. p. 226, line 28Demons and death then I sing,
  57. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  58. p. 228, line 12I see but you, O warlike pennant! O banner so broad, with stripes, I sing you only,
  59. p. 252, line 7Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
  60. p. 254, line 10From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
  61. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  62. p. 254, line 25To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods,
  63. p. 256, line 11If thou wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.)
  64. p. 257, line 24Sing on there in the swamp,
  65. p. 259, line 4Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,
  66. p. 259, line 5Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
  67. p. 259, line 7Sing on dearest brother, warble your reedy song,
  68. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  69. p. 263, line 22But sing poet in our name,
  70. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  71. p. 263, line 25Sing—as they close the doors of earth upon him—one verse,
  72. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  73. p. 270, line 17I sing you over all, flying beckoning through the fight—O the hard-contested fight!
  74. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  75. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  76. p. 277, line 5Songs of continued years I sing.
  77. p. 279, line 13But now I sing not war,
  78. p. 294, line 20To grace the bush I love—to sing with the birds,
  79. p. 310, line 29For thee they sing and dance O soul.
  80. p. 316, line 16You too with joy I sing.
  81. p. 316, line 23A worship new I sing,
  82. p. 319, line 10Year at whose wide-flung door I sing!
  83. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  84. p. 346, line 22A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
  85. p. 347, line 6Belief I sing, and preparation;
  86. p. 347, line 9Out of that formula for thee I sing.
  87. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  88. p. 362, line 9And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
  89. p. 373, line 1OF these years I sing,
  90. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  91. p. 376, line 5I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,
  92. p. 376, line 6I sing the endless finalés of things,
  93. p. 379, line 10The entrance of man to sing;
  94. p. 394, line 9These with gay heart I also sing.
  95. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  96. p. 397, line 10Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the Muse;—I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally with the Male, I sing.
  97. p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
  98. p. 419, line 12THE commonplace I sing;
  99. p. 419, line 15The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,
  100. p. 420, line 26I sing of life, yet mind me well of death:
  101. p. 427, line 12[…] spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with reference […]