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.

T

table – trumpet · trumpeter – tyrants

table 7

  1. p. 36, line 24I had him sit next me at table, my fire-lock lean'd in the corner.
  2. p. 39, line 29The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
  3. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  4. p. 155, line 16Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,
  5. p. 170, line 6If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
  6. p. 301, line 8Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,

tableau 1

  1. p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!

tableaus 5

  1. p. 105, line 7Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,
  2. p. 295, line 3Lambent tableaus, prophetic, bodiless scenes,
  3. p. 310, line 4Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
  4. p. 316, line 29Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,
  5. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.

tableaux 1

  1. p. 396, line 13To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up;

table-lands 2

  1. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,
  2. p. 149, line 5Welcome the rich borders of rivers, table-lands, openings,

tables 3

  1. p. 172, line 8Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
  2. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
  3. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)

tablet 1

  1. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,

tablets 1

  1. p. 294, line 23What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire?

tacit 1

  1. p. 166, line 30With Nature's calm content, with tacit huge delight,

taciturn 2

  1. p. 208, line 6Of the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay,
  2. p. 250, line 14You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other,

tack'd 1 today: tacked

  1. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,

tacked see tack'd

tacking 3

  1. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  2. p. 205, line 22The bows turn, the freighted ship tacking speeds away under her gray sails,
  3. p. 209, line 13Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,

tacks 1

  1. p. 330, line 7Elements merge in the night, ships make tacks in the dreams,

tag 1

  1. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

tags 1

  1. p. 407, line 4[…] old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty […]

Tahoe 1

  1. p. 317, line 12I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,

tail 2

  1. p. 55, line 8Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  2. p. 56, line 1Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tail;

tail'd 2 today: tailed

  1. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  2. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,

tailed see tail'd

tailor 1

  1. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,

tailoress 1

  1. p. 162, line 26To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse, hostler, porter,

Taine 1

  1. p. 437, line 36[…] candidate for the future. "All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated […]

taint 2

  1. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,
  2. p. 125, line 27No diseas'd person, no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.

take 74

  1. p. 16, line 1HERE, take this gift,
  2. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  3. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  4. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  5. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
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  1. p. 39, line 13Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
  2. p. 44, line 3Do you take it I would astonish?
  3. p. 45, line 11I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
  4. p. 49, line 26Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again.
  5. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  6. p. 59, line 1I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest,
  7. p. 60, line 28I take part, I see and hear the whole,
  8. p. 70, line 12I take my place among you as much as among any,
  9. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  10. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  11. p. 97, line 16That you will one day perhaps take control of all,
  12. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  13. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  14. p. 103, line 13To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
  15. p. 106, line 15You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
  16. p. 110, line 1WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
  17. p. 112, line 7O TAKE my hand Walt Whitman!
  18. p. 120, line 23AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,
  19. p. 125, line 22Allons! yet take warning!
  20. p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
  21. p. 127, line 11To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
  22. p. 127, line 14To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
  23. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  24. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  25. p. 136, line 8Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
  26. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  27. p. 138, line 5Whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of stars, to learn one of the meanings,
  28. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  29. p. 144, line 7I pull the wicker pots up slantingly, the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws as I take them out, I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
  30. p. 147, line 22And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
  31. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  32. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  33. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  34. p. 183, line 19We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
  35. 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,
  36. p. 203, line 8You fish-shaped island, I take what is underfoot,
  37. p. 235, line 11They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank,
  38. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  39. p. 268, line 17Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,
  40. p. 273, line 4Give me to sing the songs of the great Idea, take all the rest,
  41. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  42. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  43. p. 285, line 10Unclaim'd, avoided house—take one breath from my tremulous lips,
  44. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  45. p. 304, line 14The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  46. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  47. p. 314, line 27Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
  48. p. 321, line 2We too take ship O soul,
  49. p. 323, line 17I take my way along the island's edge,
  50. p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
  51. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  52. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  53. p. 343, line 12Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,
  54. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  55. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  56. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  57. p. 382, line 18Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss,
  58. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  59. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  60. p. 412, line 8As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.
  61. p. 418, line 9Take deep to thy proud prosperous heart.
  62. p. 419, line 16(Take here the mainest lesson—less from books—less from the schools,)
  63. p. 426, line 32[…] the usual rewards, business, political, literary, &c.—to take part in the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself […]
  64. p. 436, line 38[…] to come (if there should be such) I take occasion now to confirm those lines with the settled convictions […]

taken 11

  1. p. 33, line 18It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps,
  2. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  3. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  4. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  5. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
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  1. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  2. p. 237, line 12Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
  3. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  4. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  5. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,
  6. p. 427, line 17[…] it now (perhaps too late,) I have unwittingly taken up that challenge and made an attempt at such statements […]

takes 11

  1. p. 16, line 18As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.
  2. p. 40, line 6Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
  3. p. 54, line 17In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
  4. p. 62, line 22Our frigate takes fire,
  5. p. 73, line 18No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
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  1. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  2. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  3. p. 266, line 3Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne from the house,
  4. p. 327, line 6He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  5. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  6. p. 399, line 15Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes—all that takes cognizance of natural beauty,

takest 1

  1. p. 358, line 4Thou takest away all cheering light, all hope,

taking 17

  1. p. 52, line 18Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  2. p. 67, line 6Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
  3. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  4. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
  5. p. 80, line 29The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking,
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  1. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  2. p. 155, line 20Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas.
  3. p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
  4. p. 168, line 23At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession,
  5. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  6. p. 197, line 11Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them,
  7. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  8. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  9. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,
  10. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  11. p. 413, line 37[…] example as it passes my mind, is worth taking notice of. If the war had continued any long time […]

tale 7

  1. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  2. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  3. p. 113, line 18I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God the Christ,
  4. p. 271, line 19Is it not a mere tale? a rhyme? a prettiness?—is the good old cause in it?
  5. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  6. p. 319, line 25The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
  7. p. 392, line 22The tale of cosmic elemental passion,

talent 1

  1. p. 429, line 41[…] well enough, too, that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and all the […]

talents 1

  1. p. 413, line 39[…] have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any nation on earth. That they possess'd […]

tales 5

  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,
  2. p. 304, line 17I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  3. p. 317, line 22Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead,
  4. p. 394, line 16(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, façades, tell their inimitable tales;
  5. p. 415, line 6The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,

talk 21

  1. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 30, line 19But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
  3. p. 35, line 7The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders,
  4. p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
  5. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
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  1. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  2. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  3. p. 124, line 9Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
  4. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  5. p. 232, line 22As I talk I remember all, I remember the Declaration,
  6. p. 249, line 21Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk,
  7. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  8. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  9. p. 301, line 7Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
  10. p. 384, line 75[…] Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  11. p. 392, line 4(I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,)
  12. p. 397, line 3Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep,
  13. p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,
  14. p. 411, line 38[…] would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures […]
  15. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  16. p. 438, line 30[…] I give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]

talkative 1

  1. p. 51, line 7Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,

talk'd 2 today: talked

  1. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  2. p. 411, line 38[…] would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best […]

talked see talk'd

talker 1

  1. p. 400, line 6(Large, brave, cleanly, hot-blooded, no talker, rather spiritualistic,

talkers 2

  1. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?

talking 11

  1. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  2. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  3. p. 106, line 22Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or Japan, talking other dialects,
  4. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  5. 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.
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  1. p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
  2. p. 224, line 26O now it seems to me it is talking to its children,
  3. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
  4. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
  5. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  6. p. 427, line 33[…] attitude of the ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time […]

talks 3

  1. p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  2. p. 224, line 27I hear it—it talks to me—O it is wonderful!
  3. p. 260, line 2I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not,

tall 13

  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. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  3. p. 96, line 13Perennial roots, tall leaves, O the winter shall not freeze you delicate leaves,
  4. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  5. p. 133, line 11Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta! stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
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  1. p. 164, line 12See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
  2. p. 181, line 11As from tall peaks the modern overlooking,
  3. p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
  4. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
  5. p. 235, line 20Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen,
  6. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
  7. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;
  8. p. 398, line 5The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.

tall-borne 1

  1. p. 329, line 16She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and full and pliant limbs,

tall-domed 1

  1. p. 295, line 14Toward a tall-domed school.

taller 2

  1. p. 96, line 26Grow up taller sweet leaves that I may see! grow up out of my breast!
  2. 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;

tallest 1

  1. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,

tall-growing 1

  1. p. 255, line 19Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,

tallied 4

  1. p. 124, line 2Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
  2. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  3. p. 187, line 16There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
  4. p. 260, line 13And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.

tall-topt 2

  1. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  2. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,

tally 5

  1. p. 50, line 22My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,
  2. p. 136, line 22The indications and tally of time,
  3. p. 192, line 12We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,
  4. p. 261, line 9To the tally of my soul,
  5. p. 389, line 8Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,

tallying 9

  1. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  2. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
  3. p. 262, line 14And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul,
  4. p. 296, line 1Tallying the gifts of earth, large as the earth,
  5. p. 315, line 6Cheerfully tallying life, walking the world, the real,
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  1. p. 339, line 17All sorrow, labor, suffering, I, tallying it, absorb in myself,
  2. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  3. p. 426, line 43[…] and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and […]
  4. p. 429, line 12[…] to attempt reading the book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and quality in the mind. Think of […]

talons 2

  1. p. 216, line 16A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
  2. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)

tamarind 1

  1. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,

tame 4

  1. 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,
  2. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  3. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  4. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,

tamed 2

  1. p. 78, line 17I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
  2. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,

tamer 3

  1. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
  2. p. 307, line 14Yet see you! how soon his rage subsides—how soon this tamer tames him;
  3. p. 307, line 22How they watch their tamer—they wish him near them—how they turn to look after him!

Tamerlane 1

  1. p. 319, line 31The wars of Tamerlane, the reign of Aurungzebe,

tames 1

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

Tancred 1

  1. p. 159, line 11Amadis, Tancred, utterly gone, Charlemagne, Roland, Oliver gone,

tan-faced 4

  1. p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
  2. p. 183, line 5COME my tan-faced children,
  3. p. 250, line 11O TAN-FACED prairie-boy,
  4. p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,

tangle 2

  1. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  2. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,

tangled 3

  1. p. 72, line 18Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush,
  2. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,
  3. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,

tangles 1

  1. p. 267, line 2Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,

tangling 1

  1. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,

tann'd 2 today: tanned

  1. p. 88, line 21They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
  2. p. 194, line 19For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only,

tanned see tann'd

tantalize 1

  1. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?

tantalized 1

  1. p. 50, line 17Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation,

tantalizing 1

  1. p. 275, line 24I know now why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked, it is for my sake,

tap 1

  1. p. 223, line 6To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum if need be,)

tapering 3

  1. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  2. p. 278, line 18The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees,
  3. p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,

tapping 1

  1. p. 149, line 14The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,

target 1

  1. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;

tariffs 1

  1. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.

tarry 2

  1. p. 183, line 9For we cannot tarry here,
  2. p. 237, line 7She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

Tartar 1

  1. p. 119, line 3You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!

Tartary 1

  1. p. 119, line 3You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!

task 3

  1. p. 183, line 19We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
  2. p. 348, line 1Brain of the New World, what a task is thine,
  3. p. 420, line 24Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,

tasks 3

  1. p. 119, line 4You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
  2. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
  3. p. 407, line 32[…] neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions […]

tassels 2

  1. p. 282, line 5Not a maize-stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace.
  2. p. 360, line 14A Kentucky corn-field, the tall, graceful, long-leav'd corn, slender, flapping, bright green, with tassels, with beautiful ears each well-sheath'd in its husk;

taste 7

  1. p. 29, line 22The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
  2. p. 39, line 8Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
  3. p. 145, line 10To taste the savage taste of blood—to be so devilish!
  4. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  5. p. 273, line 16I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
  6. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,

tasted 1

  1. 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,

tastes 5

  1. p. 49, line 31The air tastes good to my palate.
  2. p. 59, line 24All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine,
  3. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  4. p. 272, line 14He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run,
  5. p. 286, line 25That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,

tasting 1

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

tatter'd 2 today: tattered

  1. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  2. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,

tattered see tatter'd

tatters 1

  1. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,

taught 6

  1. p. 153, line 3Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves,
  2. p. 160, line 31Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited.
  3. p. 212, line 19They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.
  4. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  5. p. 295, line 27The student, boy or girl, led forward to be taught,
  6. p. 438, line 34[…] West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young Goethe, that really great poetry is always […]

taunt 2

  1. p. 50, line 7The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
  2. p. 60, line 8Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.

taunted 1

  1. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,

tauntingly 1

  1. p. 265, line 8I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,

taunts 1

  1. p. 92, line 6To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!

Taurus 1

  1. p. 118, line 31You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!

taut 1

  1. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,

tavern 3

  1. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  2. p. 312, line 18The fiddler in the tavern, the glee, the long-strung sailor-song,
  3. p. 329, line 5He stands in the room of the old tavern, the well-belov'd soldiers all pass through,

tawny 2

  1. p. 352, line 4And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;
  2. p. 367, line 7Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle,

tax-gatherer 1

  1. p. 212, line 4Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,

teach 11

  1. p. 75, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
  2. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  3. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  4. p. 133, line 6What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
  5. p. 161, line 12In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals,
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  1. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  2. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  3. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  4. 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?
  5. p. 275, line 9This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.

teacher 9

  1. p. 42, line 17A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,
  2. p. 74, line 20I am the teacher of athletes,
  3. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  4. p. 129, line 3Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
  5. p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
  6. p. 178, line 30The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
  7. p. 308, line 19To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.
  8. p. 332, line 3The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong'd is made right,

teachers 4

  1. p. 15, line 14We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.
  2. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  3. p. 350, line 6Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students, born of thee,
  4. p. 388, line 4Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,

teaching 4

  1. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  2. p. 178, line 30The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
  3. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
  4. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,

team 1

  1. p. 38, line 7I go with the team also.

teams 1

  1. p. 283, line 24Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank'd wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries,

teamsters 2

  1. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,
  2. p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,

tear 5

  1. p. 204, line 5Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
  2. p. 238, line 11But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,
  3. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  4. p. 243, line 4The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,)
  5. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,

tearful 3

  1. p. 220, line 18The tearful parting, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother,
  2. p. 255, line 14O shades of night—O moody, tearful night!
  3. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)

tearing 1

  1. p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,

tears 29

  1. p. 34, line 22For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears,
  2. p. 64, line 22That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 87, line 22The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
  4. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  5. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,
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  1. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
  2. p. 197, line 8A man, yet by these tears a little boy again,
  3. p. 198, line 11Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears.
  4. p. 200, line 23The strange tears down the cheeks coursing,
  5. p. 204, line 13TEARS! tears! tears!
  6. p. 204, line 14In the night, in solitude, tears,
  7. p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
  8. p. 204, line 17Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;
  9. p. 204, line 18O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?
  10. p. 204, line 20Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;
  11. p. 204, line 25Of tears! tears! tears!
  12. p. 206, line 12With these kisses let me remove your tears,
  13. p. 210, line 12If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  14. p. 235, line 6In death, defeat, and sisters', mothers' tears.
  15. p. 246, line 12As with voices and with tears.
  16. p. 296, line 12(Tragedies, sorrows, laughter, tears—O heaven!
  17. p. 338, line 20(Or is it the plashing of tears? the measureless waters of human tears?)
  18. p. 392, line 9Great as thou art above the rest, thy many tears—a lack from all eternity in thy content,

teats 2

  1. p. 39, line 2The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
  2. p. 87, line 22The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,

technique 1

  1. p. 429, line 43[…] especially in verbal melody and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand […]

teeming 22

  1. p. 12, line 34America's busy, teeming, intricate whirl,
  2. p. 86, line 11She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
  3. p. 149, line 6Welcome the measureless grazing-lands, welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp;
  4. p. 152, line 5Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
  5. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
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  1. p. 237, line 15Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
  2. p. 252, line 1DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life!
  3. p. 261, line 7Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
  4. p. 266, line 10Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations,
  5. p. 278, line 11O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb,
  6. p. 296, line 5By you and all your teeming life old Thames,
  7. p. 296, line 13The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)
  8. p. 306, line 5And 'mid its teeming madden'd half-drown'd crowds,
  9. p. 310, line 11The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
  10. p. 313, line 7(The teeming lady comes,
  11. p. 315, line 28The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
  12. p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
  13. p. 349, line 3Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing,
  14. p. 388, line 24Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
  15. p. 393, line 22Through teeming cities' streets, indoors or out, factories or farms,
  16. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  17. p. 418, line 29On the slope of a teeming Persian rose-garden,

teeth 5

  1. p. 63, line 26The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
  2. p. 87, line 5Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
  3. p. 100, line 24Not in husky pantings through clinch'd teeth,
  4. p. 190, line 24(I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd,
  5. p. 354, line 3Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turn'd-in nails,

teff-wheat 1

  1. p. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.

Teheran 1

  1. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,

telegraph 2

  1. p. 28, line 14See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the continent,
  2. p. 371, line 3With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war,

telegraphs 1

  1. p. 115, line 12I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,

telescope 1

  1. p. 13, line 26Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics,

tell 53

  1. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  2. p. 44, line 6This hour I tell things in confidence,
  3. p. 44, line 7I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
  4. p. 49, line 25I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
  5. p. 60, line 23I am an old artillerist, I tell of my fort's bombardment,
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  1. p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
  2. p. 61, line 9(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
  3. p. 61, line 10Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
  4. p. 62, line 10Our foe was no skulk in his ship I tell you, (said he,)
  5. p. 65, line 26Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but cannot,
  6. p. 66, line 1And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
  7. p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
  8. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  9. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  10. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  11. p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
  12. p. 96, line 16O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell in your own way of the heart that is under you,
  13. p. 102, line 10Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior, I will tell you what to say of me,
  14. p. 109, line 18I dare not tell it in words, not even in these songs.
  15. p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
  16. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
  17. p. 134, line 14NOW list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
  18. p. 134, line 18Tell him to send me the signs.
  19. p. 135, line 2The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,)
  20. p. 179, line 19I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
  21. p. 179, line 21When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot,
  22. p. 210, line 22But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  23. p. 231, line 20Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
  24. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  25. p. 233, line 1I tell not now the whole of the battle,
  26. p. 233, line 3Of that brigade I tell, and how steadily it march'd,
  27. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  28. p. 242, line 3Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
  29. p. 257, line 16As I saw you had something to tell as you bent to me night after night,
  30. p. 311, line 31As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso,
  31. p. 312, line 6(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
  32. p. 312, line 7This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.)
  33. p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
  34. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  35. p. 341, line 14The sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
  36. p. 341, line 15Come tell me where I am speeding, tell me my destination.
  37. p. 341, line 18Whither I go from the bed I recline on, come tell me;
  38. p. 344, line 8You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,
  39. p. 370, line 4I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,
  40. p. 394, line 16(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, façades, tell their inimitable tales;
  41. p. 395, line 2Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died:
  42. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,
  43. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  44. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  45. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)

tellest 1

  1. p. 392, line 23Thou tellest to a kindred soul.

tells 1

  1. p. 180, line 12I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best,

temper 3

  1. p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,
  2. p. 432, line 4[…] in its pages are arrived at through the temper and inculcation of the old works as much as through […]
  3. p. 434, line 31[…] which he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of faith report these things? Up to […]

temperaments 1

  1. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,

temperate 2

  1. p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
  2. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,

temperature 1

  1. p. 267, line 14Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature, the gestation of new States,

temperer 1

  1. p. 151, line 7The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,

tempering 1

  1. p. 414, line 3Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing

tempers 2

  1. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
  2. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,

tempest 4

  1. p. 139, line 8White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,
  2. p. 314, line 30And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
  3. p. 328, line 15The tempest lulls, the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
  4. p. 356, line 9Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me,

tempests 1

  1. p. 314, line 26The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,

temple 2

  1. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  2. p. 161, line 19Your temple at Olympia.)

temples 15

  1. p. 37, line 15It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
  2. p. 87, line 7Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
  3. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
  4. p. 115, line 26I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers.
  5. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
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  1. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,
  2. p. 158, line 26Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?
  3. p. 160, line 13Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
  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. 277, line 25Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held,
  6. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.
  7. p. 298, line 1I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck,
  8. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  9. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?
  10. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,

temporarily 1

  1. p. 239, line 12I stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,)

temporary 2

  1. p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
  2. p. 374, line 3Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,

temporizer 1

  1. 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?

ten 11

  1. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  2. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  3. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  4. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  5. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  6. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  7. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
  8. p. 410, line 15AFTER surmounting three-score and ten,

tenacious 1

  1. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.

tenaciously 1

  1. p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,

tend 8

  1. p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  2. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  3. p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
  4. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  5. p. 310, line 27Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend,
  6. p. 432, line 16[…] spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]

tendencies 2

  1. p. 13, line 11Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
  2. p. 435, line 13[…] generalizing laws, but as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary […]

tendency 1

  1. p. 427, line 39[…] French critic said that, owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease […]

tender 17

  1. p. 45, line 26I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
  2. p. 81, line 11(Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)
  3. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  4. p. 126, line 19Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
  5. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
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  1. p. 184, line 10O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all!
  2. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  3. p. 227, line 12No more with tender lip, nor musical labial sound,
  4. p. 236, line 14While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
  5. p. 257, line 25O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,
  6. p. 259, line 9O liquid and free and tender!
  7. p. 277, line 18Fusion of ocean and land, tender and pensive waves,
  8. p. 312, line 11(The voice, O tender voices, memory's loving voices,
  9. p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
  10. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  11. p. 372, line 23Shroud them, embalm them, cover them all over with tender pride.
  12. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?

tenderest 1

  1. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,

tenderly 7

  1. p. 33, line 15Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
  2. p. 60, line 16They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
  3. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  4. p. 203, line 24I mean tenderly by you and all,
  5. p. 247, line 12To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,
  6. p. 346, line 1AT the last, tenderly,
  7. p. 346, line 8Tenderly—be not impatient,

tendest 1

  1. p. 182, line 19To the ideal tendest.

tending 5

  1. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!
  2. p. 209, line 9Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,
  3. p. 277, line 15All, all toward the mystic ocean tending.
  4. p. 309, line 26Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,
  5. p. 400, line 8Lay dying—sons, daughters, church-deacons, lovingly tending him,

tendon 1

  1. p. 85, line 23Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,

tends 1

  1. p. 181, line 19For it the real to the ideal tends.

tenement 2

  1. p. 285, line 9Fair, fearful wreck—tenement of a soul—itself a soul,
  2. p. 354, line 18The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement,

tenets 1

  1. p. 102, line 4See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,

ten-fold 1

  1. p. 311, line 30A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,

Tennessee 9

  1. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
  2. p. 41, line 18Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through those drain'd by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas,
  3. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  4. p. 221, line 24Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top,
  5. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
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  1. p. 282, line 8Harvest the maize of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, each ear in its light-green sheath,
  2. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,
  3. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  4. p. 371, line 22From cemeteries all through Virginia and Tennessee,

Tennyson 3

  1. p. 394, line 23Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
  2. p. 415, line 7Shakspere, Schiller, Walter Scott, Tennyson,
  3. p. 434, line 36[…] Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson, Victor Hugo, Carlyle, Emerson—is certainly involv'd in such questions […]

Tennyson's 2

  1. p. 159, line 19And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.
  2. p. 389, line 11Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies,

tenon'd 1 today: tenoned

  1. p. 45, line 12My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,

tenoned see tenon'd

tenons 1

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

tenor 5

  1. p. 51, line 20A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  2. p. 94, line 22I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
  3. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  4. p. 384, line 41[…] Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My […]
  5. p. 395, line 25From these, for these, with these, a hurried line, dead tenor,

tenori 1

  1. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!

tenors 1

  1. p. 314, line 31And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,

tens 1

  1. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,

tent 6

  1. p. 155, line 10Hut, tent, landing, survey,
  2. p. 240, line 2As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
  3. p. 240, line 3As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,
  4. p. 242, line 22Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof'd hospital,
  5. p. 254, line 20(Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)
  6. p. 393, line 16Or frozen North, or sultry South—the African's—the Arab's in his tent,

tent-ropes 1

  1. p. 254, line 20(Forth from my tent emerging for good, loosing, untying the tent-ropes,)

tents 12

  1. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  2. p. 113, line 23I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
  3. p. 116, line 17I see the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs,
  4. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  5. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
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  1. p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
  2. p. 279, line 14Nor the measur'd march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps,
  3. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,
  4. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
  5. p. 378, line 6Lo, the camps of the tents of green,
  6. p. 378, line 10Now in those camps of green, in their tents dotting the world,
  7. p. 413, line 12The rifle crack—the cannon thud—the rushing forth of men from their tents;

teocallis see teokallis

teokallis 1 today: teocallis

  1. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,

term 2

  1. p. 166, line 3My time has ended, my term has come.
  2. p. 166, line 27Our time, our term has come.

terminus 2

  1. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  2. p. 324, line 28My terminus near,

terms 13

  1. p. 15, line 19We confer on equal terms with each of the States,
  2. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  3. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  4. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  5. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
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  1. p. 104, line 6Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
  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!
  3. p. 169, line 19The learn'd, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
  4. p. 169, line 20A man like me and never the usual terms.
  5. p. 270, line 25The place is august, the terms obdurate.
  6. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  7. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  8. p. 428, line 27[…] it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning […]

terraced 1

  1. p. 235, line 19Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising high,

terraqueous 1

  1. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,

terrible 14

  1. p. 9, line 12Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
  2. p. 13, line 14(The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns,
  3. p. 56, line 15Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
  4. p. 101, line 1OF the terrible doubt of appearances,
  5. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
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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. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
  3. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  4. p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
  5. p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.
  6. p. 275, line 25I take you specially to be mine, you terrible, rude forms.
  7. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  8. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
  9. p. 433, line 41[…] have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression […]

terrific 2

  1. p. 253, line 23Red battles with their slaughter, the stimulus, the strong terrific game,
  2. p. 369, line 2(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific Ideal,

terrified 1

  1. p. 287, line 1Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,

terror 4

  1. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  2. p. 226, line 6We may be terror and carnage, and are so now,
  3. p. 232, line 6When I clutch'd your hand it was not with terror,
  4. p. 306, line 11Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.

test 4

  1. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  2. p. 123, line 19Here is the test of wisdom,
  3. p. 345, line 2I admire death and test propositions.
  4. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)

Testaments 1

  1. p. 433, line 1[…] I went over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in […]

tested 1

  1. p. 123, line 20Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,

testimony 2

  1. p. 274, line 15Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me,
  2. p. 355, line 5These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,

Teutonia 1

  1. p. 192, line 23I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews,

Texan 1

  1. p. 42, line 14At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch,

Texas 11

  1. p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
  2. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  3. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;
  4. p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
  5. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
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  1. p. 277, line 10Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas,
  2. p. 347, line 18With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas uplands, or Florida's glades,
  3. p. 352, line 17O'er Mississippi's endless course, o'er Texas' grassy plains, Kanada's woods,
  4. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  5. p. 416, line 7From the measureless West, Virginia, the South, the Carolinas, Texas,
  6. p. 436, line 12[…] Mississippi, in Canada, up in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]

text 1

  1. p. 412, line 17In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text,

th 2

  1. p. 190, line 22I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
  2. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,

Thalia 1

  1. p. 159, line 7Calliope's call forever closed, Clio, Melpomene, Thalia dead,

Thames 2

  1. p. 113, line 6I hear continual echoes from the Thames,
  2. p. 296, line 5By you and all your teeming life old Thames,

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thank 1

  1. p. 324, line 27Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee.

thanks 7

  1. p. 281, line 2The season of thanks and the voice of full-yielding,
  2. p. 384, line 51[…] Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death, 398 The Voice of the […]
  3. p. 398, line 10Thanks in old age—thanks ere I go,
  4. p. 398, line 23Thanks—joyful thanks!—a soldier's, traveler's thanks.

thanksgiving 2

  1. p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
  2. p. 420, line 9Weddings in churches, thanksgiving dinners, returns of long-absent sons,

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theater see theatre

theatre 1 today: theater

  1. p. 245, line 19The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!

theatres 1

  1. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

Theban 1

  1. p. 118, line 4I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.

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theft 2

  1. p. 179, line 2The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
  2. p. 297, line 15Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,

thefts 1

  1. p. 274, line 16Its crimes, lies, thefts, defections, are you and me,

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theirs 8

  1. p. 176, line 11I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them,
  2. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  3. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
  4. p. 282, line 10Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs;
  5. p. 325, line 24The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
  6. p. 348, line 21Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant;

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theme 15

  1. p. 9, line 17Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?
  2. p. 9, line 18And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
  3. p. 227, line 15My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last,
  4. p. 276, line 3I thrill'd with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me,
  5. p. 307, line 9Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen,
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  1. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  2. p. 357, line 8Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme,
  3. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  4. p. 357, line 12No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love.
  5. p. 384, line 46[…] Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old […]
  6. 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.
  7. p. 397, line 11Nor cease at the theme of One's-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
  8. p. 434, line 23[…] I seek less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the […]
  9. p. 434, line 24[…] bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word […]
  10. p. 436, line 24[…] element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme in literature. I am not going to argue the question […]

themes 17

  1. p. 23, line 22After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
  2. p. 23, line 23O such themes—equalities! O divine average!
  3. p. 159, line 2Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes,
  4. p. 161, line 27To sound of different, prouder songs, with stronger themes,
  5. p. 162, line 3Away with themes of war! away with war itself!
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  1. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
  2. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
  3. p. 175, line 5In them the development good—in them all themes, hints, possibilities.
  4. p. 369, line 24Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
  5. p. 386, line 22Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books,
  6. p. 414, line 19Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee,
  7. p. 427, line 21[…] Grass," as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock […]
  8. p. 428, line 37[…] the best. There are, I know, certain controling themes that seem endlessly appropriated to the poets—as war, in […]
  9. p. 429, line 3[…] far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements of modern song […]
  10. p. 430, line 1[…] to me, as the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and […]
  11. p. 430, line 5[…] view,* the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on […]
  12. p. 430, line 7[…] advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of one, not only the grateful and […]

themselves 64

  1. p. 13, line 34Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet,
  2. p. 15, line 3How they inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age,
  3. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
  4. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  5. p. 48, line 10Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
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  1. p. 62, line 19The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold to give them a chance for themselves.
  2. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  3. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,
  4. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  5. p. 81, line 20Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
  6. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  7. p. 88, line 23They know how to swim, row, ride, wrestle, shoot, run, strike, retreat, advance, resist, defend themselves,
  8. p. 88, line 24They are ultimate in their own right—they are calm, clear, well-possess'd of themselves.
  9. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  10. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  11. p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
  12. p. 103, line 21ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these,
  13. 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.)
  14. p. 134, line 22Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves as amid light,
  15. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,
  16. p. 136, line 21They are not vile any more, they hardly know themselves they are so grown.
  17. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  18. p. 149, line 25The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves,
  19. p. 152, line 7Away! these are not to be cherish'd for themselves,
  20. p. 153, line 3Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves,
  21. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  22. p. 162, line 1Practical, peaceful life, the people's life, the People themselves,
  23. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  24. p. 177, line 2They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
  25. p. 192, line 8With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these years,
  26. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  27. p. 210, line 16See how well dress'd, see how orderly they conduct themselves.
  28. p. 214, line 3The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
  29. p. 214, line 21ONLY themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
  30. p. 215, line 15I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done,
  31. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  32. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  33. p. 261, line 27They themselves were fully at rest, they suffer'd not,
  34. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
  35. 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.
  36. p. 283, line 1And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,
  37. p. 283, line 12They gave this child more of themselves than that,
  38. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  39. p. 286, line 23That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
  40. p. 289, line 11Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves?
  41. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  42. p. 305, line 11And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  43. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  44. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  45. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  46. p. 343, line 9I do not think the performers know themselves—but now I think I begin to know them.
  47. p. 348, line 11Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with reference to thee;
  48. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  49. p. 368, line 26To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
  50. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
  51. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  52. p. 429, line 7[…] long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without […]
  53. p. 433, line 29[…] the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era and […]

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  1. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
  2. p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
  3. p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
  4. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  5. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
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  1. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  2. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
  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. 264, line 18We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,
  5. p. 297, line 22For I see every word utter'd thence has deeper, sweeter, new sounds, impossible on less terms.
  6. p. 303, line 1Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)
  7. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  8. p. 303, line 3Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
  9. p. 307, line 4(In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,)
  10. p. 311, line 32The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done,
  11. p. 408, line 31[…] is indeed finally but a reminiscent memorial from thence by me to you […]

thence-arous'd 1

  1. p. 197, line 3From the myriad thence-arous'd words,

thenceforth 1

  1. p. 395, line 22I fold thenceforth, or seek to fold, within my chants transmuting,

thenceforward 2

  1. p. 197, line 36And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
  2. p. 434, line 7[…] the war fields in Virginia (end of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the days and nights […]

theologies 2

  1. p. 298, line 10We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
  2. p. 398, line 7Amid the changing schools, theologies, philosophies,

theology 2

  1. p. 69, line 16Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless human brain,
  2. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?

theories 5

  1. p. 273, line 23It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, governments, theories,
  2. p. 275, line 3For those whom laws, theories, conventions, can never master.
  3. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  4. p. 409, line 32[…] to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
  5. p. 430, line 36[…] with and build on the concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only […]

theory 12

  1. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  2. p. 179, line 10There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the theory of the earth,
  3. p. 190, line 12I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
  4. p. 192, line 24I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,
  5. p. 273, line 29The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.
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  1. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  2. p. 303, line 20The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
  3. p. 407, line 10[…] not the verse-field, as originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently […]
  4. p. 426, line 15[…] said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider our American […]
  5. p. 426, line 17[…] our American republic itself to be, with its theory. (I think I have at least enough philosophy not to […]
  6. p. 430, line 28[…] must imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I […]

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therefor 1

  1. p. 157, line 12She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor,

therefore 11

  1. p. 11, line 3Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
  2. p. 18, line 13Therefore for thee the following chants.
  3. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  4. p. 46, line 12Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
  5. p. 97, line 9Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,
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  1. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
  2. p. 98, line 28Therefore release me and depart on your way.
  3. p. 252, line 16What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works,
  4. p. 339, line 10Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy? no more have I,
  5. p. 372, line 21Perfume therefore my chant, O love, immortal love,
  6. p. 425, line 20[…] thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations […]

therein 1

  1. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,

thereof 6

  1. 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.
  2. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  3. p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
  4. p. 336, line 14The law of drunkards, informers, mean persons, not one iota thereof can be eluded.
  5. p. 426, line 13[…] and put it unerringly on record—the value thereof to be decided by time […]
  6. p. 438, line 15[…] of Grass " distinctively as literature, or a specimen thereof, that I feel to dwell, or advance claims. No one […]

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thews 1

  1. p. 125, line 23He traveling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,

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they're 1

  1. p. 246, line 11All the channels of the city streets they're flooding,

they've 1

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

Thibet 2

  1. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
  2. p. 195, line 7From Thibet, from the four winding and far-flowing rivers of China,

thick 13

  1. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  2. p. 41, line 16The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
  3. p. 58, line 1Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
  4. p. 72, line 15Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin,
  5. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
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  1. p. 100, line 9These I compass'd around by a thick cloud of spirits,
  2. p. 195, line 15I chant copious the islands beyond, thick as stars in the sky,
  3. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  4. p. 241, line 11A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
  5. p. 351, line 21Ten fishermen waiting—they discover a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
  6. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,
  7. p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
  8. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,

thick-breathing 1

  1. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,

thicken 1

  1. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,

thicker 2

  1. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  2. p. 381, line 12O thicker and faster—(So long!)

thick-sprinkled 2

  1. p. 367, line 27THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! flag of stars!
  2. p. 368, line 6Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!

thick-stemm'd 1

  1. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.

thief 3

  1. p. 43, line 21The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
  2. p. 170, line 12(Because you are greasy or pimpled, or were once drunk, or a thief,
  3. p. 179, line 2The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,

thievery 1

  1. p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,

thieves 3

  1. p. 48, line 18Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
  2. p. 118, line 9The pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,
  3. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,

thieving 2

  1. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
  2. p. 211, line 21For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worming from his simplicity the poor man's wages,

thigh 1

  1. p. 243, line 21The fractur'd thigh, the knee, the wound in the abdomen,

thighs 3

  1. p. 59, line 12I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  2. p. 87, line 14Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
  3. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!

thin 6

  1. p. 88, line 2The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,
  2. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  3. p. 237, line 25She with thin form presently drest in black,
  4. p. 301, line 14Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
  5. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
  6. p. 389, line 6Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman

thine 24

  1. p. 147, line 17Joys all thine own undying one, joys worthy thee O soul.
  2. p. 164, line 21All thine O sacred Union!
  3. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  4. p. 165, line 13And here and hence O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
  5. p. 182, line 21Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
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  1. p. 205, line 14What joys! what joys were thine!
  2. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  3. p. 294, line 26Nor heroism thine, nor war, nor glory.
  4. p. 317, line 1In one again, different, (yet thine, all thine, O soul, the same,)
  5. p. 320, line 12Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
  6. p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
  7. p. 322, line 7What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
  8. p. 348, line 1Brain of the New World, what a task is thine,
  9. p. 348, line 21Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant;
  10. p. 351, line 17The Present holds thee not—for such vast growth as thine,
  11. p. 351, line 18For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
  12. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,
  13. p. 359, line 19(No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,)
  14. p. 384, line 37[…] Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, 394 Old Salt […]
  15. p. 394, line 1Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank,
  16. p. 399, line 15Thine eyes, ears—all thy best attributes—all that takes cognizance of natural beauty,
  17. p. 415, line 12Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent with their music,

thing 58

  1. p. 17, line 22The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,
  2. p. 22, line 7(Or if there is I say it is just as important to you, to the land or to me, as any thing else.)
  3. p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
  4. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  5. p. 42, line 22I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
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  1. p. 49, line 6If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it,
  2. p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  3. p. 54, line 9But call any thing back again when I desire it.
  4. p. 66, line 9And any thing I have I bestow.
  5. p. 70, line 25Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  6. p. 71, line 1Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  7. p. 73, line 9They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
  8. p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
  9. p. 77, line 13If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
  10. p. 84, line 25Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,
  11. p. 86, line 16If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
  12. p. 97, line 21Without one thing all will be useless,
  13. p. 121, line 20They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
  14. p. 128, line 17Speaking of any thing else but never of itself.
  15. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,
  16. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  17. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  18. p. 174, line 10The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,
  19. p. 192, line 21(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?
  20. p. 198, line 33What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
  21. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  22. p. 210, line 22But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  23. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  24. p. 217, line 19As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
  25. p. 226, line 19They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money,
  26. p. 226, line 25It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing,
  27. p. 231, line 11Good or bad I never question you—I love all—I do not condemn any thing,
  28. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  29. p. 269, line 20He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing,
  30. 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?
  31. p. 272, line 24How dare you place any thing before a man?
  32. p. 288, line 9I do not know what you are for, (I do not know what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
  33. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  34. p. 291, line 6Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
  35. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  36. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  37. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  38. p. 305, line 19The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
  39. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  40. p. 331, line 2Every one that sleeps is beautiful, every thing in the dim light is beautiful,
  41. p. 331, line 12The universe is duly in order, every thing is in its place,
  42. 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,
  43. p. 334, line 18He is decently put away—is there any thing more?
  44. p. 337, line 16How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  45. p. 337, line 20I swear I think now that every thing without exception has an eternal soul!
  46. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,
  47. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  48. p. 396, line 3Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
  49. p. 426, line 18[…] not to be too absolutely certain of any thing, or any results.) In the second place, the volume is […]
  50. p. 428, line 3[…] and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which […]
  51. p. 433, line 23[…] occasions, our day) there can be no such thing as a long poem. The same thought had been haunting […]

things 74

  1. p. 16, line 7Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
  2. p. 18, line 9Expecting the main things from you.
  3. p. 25, line 2And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
  4. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  5. p. 30, line 16You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
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  1. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  2. p. 44, line 6This hour I tell things in confidence,
  3. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  4. p. 50, line 22My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,
  5. p. 53, line 10All truths wait in all things,
  6. p. 54, line 25Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  7. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
  8. p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
  9. p. 83, line 17All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.
  10. p. 84, line 14She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
  11. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  12. p. 110, line 18MANY things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine;
  13. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
  14. p. 123, line 24Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
  15. p. 123, line 25Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
  16. p. 125, line 8Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
  17. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
  18. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  19. 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.
  20. p. 129, line 15The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day,
  21. p. 135, line 8He puts things in their attitudes,
  22. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
  23. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  24. p. 138, line 20Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering,
  25. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  26. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  27. p. 175, line 10In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
  28. p. 177, line 2They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly,
  29. p. 178, line 6From the open countenances of animals or from inanimate things,
  30. p. 180, line 3Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before,
  31. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  32. p. 212, line 13And all these things bear fruits, and they are good.
  33. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  34. p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
  35. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  36. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  37. p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
  38. p. 269, line 10Not in him but off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
  39. p. 269, line 22His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
  40. 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?
  41. p. 273, line 20I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things,
  42. p. 274, line 12Underneath the lessons of things, spirits, Nature, governments, ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
  43. p. 275, line 6I will not be outfaced by irrational things,
  44. p. 287, line 2It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
  45. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  46. p. 304, line 17I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  47. p. 325, line 7And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
  48. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  49. p. 336, line 24Of and in all these things,
  50. p. 342, line 11I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
  51. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
  52. p. 369, line 8The announcements of recognized things, science,
  53. p. 369, line 13But I too announce solid things,
  54. p. 371, line 11Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me,
  55. p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
  56. p. 374, line 20Natural life of me faithfully praising things,
  57. p. 374, line 21Corroborating forever the triumph of things.
  58. p. 375, line 22O amazement of things—even the least particle!
  59. p. 375, line 23O spirituality of things!
  60. p. 376, line 6I sing the endless finalés of things,
  61. p. 410, line 23That all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, concepts, non-realities.)
  62. p. 419, line 25Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons,
  63. p. 428, line 3[…] belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other […]
  64. p. 430, line 5[…] time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on them by […]
  65. p. 434, line 32[…] temper and what amount of faith report these things? Up to how recent a date is the song carried […]

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  1. p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,

thinking 6

  1. p. 76, line 2The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
  2. p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
  3. p. 176, line 2Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots?
  4. p. 176, line 5Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends' mouths?
  5. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  6. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.

thinks 2

  1. p. 290, line 1All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence,
  2. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,

thinly 1

  1. p. 217, line 6He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,

thinn'd 2 today: thinned

  1. p. 60, line 5I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the ooze of my skin,
  2. p. 245, line 16Some, their time up, returning with thinn'd ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)

thinned see thinn'd

thinning 2

  1. p. 233, line 15But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!

third 4

  1. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  2. p. 30, line 15You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
  3. p. 240, line 13Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;
  4. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,

Third-month 2

  1. p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
  2. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,

thirst 1

  1. p. 321, line 25(O pensive soul of me—O thirst unsatisfied—waitest not there?

thirsting 2

  1. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  2. 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.

thirsts 1

  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,

Thirteen 1

  1. p. 26, line 11Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut!

thirty 7

  1. p. 61, line 21Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  2. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,
  3. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
  4. p. 425, line 19[…] mostly unconscious) intentions, with certain unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably […]
  5. p. 425, line 24[…] or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on […]
  6. p. 428, line 20[…] a period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed […]
  7. p. 436, line 40[…] with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of […]

thirty-eight 3

  1. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  2. p. 250, line 8Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
  3. p. 429, line 14[…] the United States to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in one—sixty or seventy millions […]

thirty-one 1

  1. p. 426, line 35[…] found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather […]

thirty-seven 1

  1. p. 29, line 13I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,

thirty-three 1

  1. p. 426, line 35[…] remaining possess'd, at the age of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be […]

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thither 11

  1. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  2. p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,
  3. p. 16, line 16Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;
  4. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
  5. p. 52, line 5(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
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  1. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  2. p. 92, line 8To rise thither with my inebriate soul!
  3. p. 127, line 8To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
  4. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  5. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,

tho 1

  1. p. 433, line 16[…] poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that beyond their limited range of melody […]

thongs 1

  1. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

thorn'd 1 today: thorned

  1. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,

thorned see thorn'd

thorns 1

  1. p. 360, line 8The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers,

thoroughly 2

  1. p. 433, line 1[…] the presence of outdoor influences, I went over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better […]
  2. p. 433, line 8[…] The Iliad (Buckley's prose version,) I read first thoroughly on the peninsula of Orient, northeast end of Long Island […]

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though 32

  1. p. 17, line 16STILL though the one I sing,
  2. p. 40, line 3The young fellow drives the express-wagon, (I love him, though I do not know him;)
  3. p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
  4. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  5. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
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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. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  3. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  4. p. 188, line 20Here too, though long represt, can never be destroy'd,
  5. p. 207, line 16All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
  6. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
  7. p. 231, line 18You can walk old man, though your eyes are almost done,
  8. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  9. p. 286, line 29Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
  10. p. 292, line 27Though long I strove courageously,
  11. p. 324, line 35I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me,
  12. p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
  13. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  14. p. 367, line 4(The sun there at the centre though conceal'd,
  15. p. 376, line 11O setting sun! though the time has come,
  16. p. 407, line 15[…] little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear that, as here collated, it is […]
  17. p. 411, line 1SOMEHOW I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
  18. p. 412, line 13Down, down, proud gorge!—though choking thee;
  19. p. 425, line 30[…] of the future—anticipations—(" still lives the song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of […]
  20. p. 431, line 4[…] indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons. But though the dawn-dazzle of the sun of literature is in those […]
  21. p. 431, line 5[…] is in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current character in nations, social […]
  22. p. 431, line 8[…] Old World or New, are from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious bequest […]
  23. p. 433, line 25[…] been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]
  24. p. 434, line 16[…] or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least not definitely) were bases […]
  25. p. 435, line 4As for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale, the distinctive […]
  26. p. 436, line 14[…] song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along with those words […]

thought 85

  1. p. 12, line 26(The units gather'd, posted, not a thought, emotion, deed, left out,)
  2. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
  3. p. 63, line 8One of the pumps has been shot away, it is generally thought we are sinking.
  4. p. 69, line 4Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
  5. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,
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  1. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  2. p. 103, line 20Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
  3. p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
  4. p. 123, line 3I am larger, better than I thought,
  5. p. 132, line 21What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance,
  6. p. 147, line 11Know'st thou the joys of pensive thought?
  7. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  8. p. 149, line 15The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
  9. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  10. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  11. p. 170, line 8Why what have you thought of yourself?
  12. p. 170, line 9Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  13. p. 170, line 10Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
  14. p. 172, line 12We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
  15. p. 175, line 7I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
  16. p. 182, line 15For the scheme's culmination, its thought and its reality,
  17. p. 182, line 29Give me O God to sing that thought,
  18. p. 189, line 23I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.
  19. p. 202, line 14Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
  20. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  21. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  22. p. 227, line 22You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money,
  23. p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
  24. p. 234, line 16Many no doubt thought of capitulation.
  25. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  26. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  27. p. 255, line 12And thought of him I love.
  28. p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
  29. p. 259, line 26And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,
  30. p. 261, line 26But I saw they were not as was thought,
  31. p. 264, line 25Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
  32. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
  33. p. 273, line 18(Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
  34. p. 283, line 19Affection that will not be gainsay'd, the sense of what is real, the thought if after all it should prove unreal,
  35. p. 285, line 11Take one tear dropt aside as I go for thought of you,
  36. p. 285, line 15SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,
  37. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  38. p. 291, line 3All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe, or on any of the wandering stars, or on any of the fix'd stars, by those there as we are here,
  39. p. 291, line 4All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you whoever you are, or by any one,
  40. p. 291, line 19Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
  41. p. 292, line 2O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  42. p. 293, line 23O fearful thought—a convict soul.
  43. p. 296, line 8But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.
  44. p. 308, line 1AN old man's thought of school,
  45. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  46. p. 318, line 12Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
  47. p. 320, line 27Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,
  48. p. 321, line 32Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,
  49. p. 325, line 1Is it the prophet's thought I speak, or am I raving?
  50. p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
  51. p. 329, line 23All the week she thought of her, she watch'd for her many a month,
  52. p. 333, line 25To think the thought of death merged in the thought of materials,
  53. p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
  54. p. 341, line 22I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;
  55. p. 341, line 23But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me,
  56. p. 347, line 12Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
  57. p. 347, line 26By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
  58. p. 347, line 27Thought of man justified, blended with God,
  59. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  60. p. 353, line 16Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finalè?
  61. p. 357, line 20No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
  62. p. 371, line 17As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
  63. p. 381, line 14I foresee too much, it means more than I thought,
  64. p. 384, line 50[…] United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death, 398 The […]
  65. p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,
  66. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)
  67. p. 411, line 36[…] populous wards of suffering men. Somehow (or I thought so) the effect of the hour was palpable. The badly […]
  68. p. 412, line 23Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought,
  69. p. 418, line 14And from within a thought and lesson yet.
  70. p. 430, line 30[…] over and repeat it: Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of a birth and […]
  71. p. 433, line 24[…] such thing as a long poem. The same thought had been haunting my mind before, but Poe's argument, though […]
  72. p. 434, line 23[…] less to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of […]
  73. p. 434, line 24[…] reader, into the atmosphere of the theme or thought—there to pursue your own flight. Another impetus-word is Comradeship […]
  74. p. 435, line 23[…] everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the forming of a […]
  75. p. 436, line 22[…] attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality […]
  76. p. 437, line 2[…] beneath all. Ever since what might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful […]
  77. p. 437, line 3[…] might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a […]
  78. p. 437, line 8[…] old ones; to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at […]

thoughtful 5

  1. p. 43, line 27This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
  2. p. 106, line 19THIS moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone,
  3. p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
  4. p. 119, line 7You thoughtful Armenian pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending mount Ararat!
  5. p. 260, line 33And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.

thoughtfullest 1

  1. p. 42, line 17A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest,

thoughtfully 1

  1. p. 437, line 44[…] across a singular work. After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening to the criticisms of […]

thoughts 34

  1. p. 10, line 13Here are our thoughts, voyagers' thoughts,
  2. p. 25, line 4But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference to ensemble,
  3. p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  4. p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  5. p. 58, line 11Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
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  1. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  2. p. 124, line 12These yearnings why are they? these thoughts in the darkness why are they?
  3. p. 124, line 15Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
  4. p. 132, line 2My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?
  5. p. 157, line 11She knows the thoughts as she passes, nothing is conceal'd from her,
  6. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  7. p. 214, line 1FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
  8. p. 236, line 14While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
  9. p. 269, line 22His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
  10. p. 296, line 24A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,
  11. p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  12. p. 308, line 21Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts,
  13. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  14. p. 324, line 4My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
  15. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  16. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  17. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
  18. p. 375, line 16How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
  19. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  20. p. 403, line 12Or " Captain! My Captain! " " Kosmos," "Quicksand Years," or "Thoughts,"
  21. p. 427, line 8[…] man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring from other […]
  22. p. 430, line 13[…] of fortune or misfortune, or fancy, or fine thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which has been done […]
  23. p. 430, line 16[…] in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably […]
  24. p. 438, line 30[…] give to you, reader, the foregoing garrulous talk, thoughts, reminiscences […]

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  1. p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
  2. p. 30, line 10Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
  3. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  4. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  5. p. 67, line 2Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
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  1. p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  2. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  3. p. 89, line 13In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
  4. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  5. p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
  6. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  7. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,
  8. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  9. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
  10. p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
  11. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
  12. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  13. p. 195, line 18I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those groups of sea-islands,
  14. p. 197, line 2From the thousand responses of my heart never to cease,
  15. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  16. p. 200, line 33A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.
  17. p. 201, line 28With the thousand responsive songs at random,
  18. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  19. p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
  20. p. 232, line 30Twenty thousand were brought against us,
  21. p. 233, line 6It was the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  22. p. 233, line 25That was the going out of the brigade of the youngest men, two thousand strong,
  23. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  24. p. 247, line 8If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
  25. p. 256, line 26With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
  26. p. 279, line 7Dispensatress, that by a word givest a thousand miles, a million farms, and missest nothing,
  27. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  28. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
  29. p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
  30. p. 317, line 15Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,
  31. p. 355, line 8In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
  32. p. 361, line 9Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,
  33. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  34. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
  35. p. 432, line 28[…] had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand page octavo volume (I have it yet,) containing Walter Scott's […]

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  1. p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  2. p. 65, line 8The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
  3. p. 142, line 18I will have thousands of globes and all time.
  4. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  5. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
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  1. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
  2. p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
  3. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,
  4. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.

thrashers 1

  1. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,

thrashing 1

  1. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

thrashing-machines 1

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

thread 8

  1. p. 25, line 1And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
  2. p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,
  3. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  4. p. 182, line 12That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
  5. p. 243, line 24Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals,
  6. p. 317, line 11I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,
  7. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

threading 3

  1. p. 163, line 11This earth all spann'd with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading every sea,
  2. p. 195, line 19My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
  3. p. 277, line 8Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods,

threads 6

  1. p. 48, line 20And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff,
  2. 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;
  3. p. 336, line 4The threads that were spun are gather'd, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
  4. p. 365, line 15For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,
  5. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
  6. p. 437, line 30[…] or grace or fortune—the direct or indirect threads of all the poetry of the past—are in my […]

threat 2

  1. p. 251, line 22And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me,
  2. p. 353, line 21Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

threaten 1

  1. p. 177, line 11Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,

threatening 4

  1. p. 21, line 25I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
  2. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
  3. p. 138, line 17Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
  4. p. 228, line 20I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves,

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  1. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  2. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  3. p. 62, line 4The three were all torn and cover'd with the boy's blood.
  4. p. 63, line 1Only three guns are in use,
  5. p. 63, line 20The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
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  1. p. 67, line 22Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,
  2. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
  3. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  4. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  5. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  6. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  7. p. 226, line 13Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square miles, the capitals,
  8. p. 240, line 4Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
  9. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  10. p. 249, line 24Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me,
  11. p. 260, line 6The gray-brown bird I know receiv'd us comrades three,
  12. p. 303, line 12Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
  13. p. 317, line 15Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,
  14. p. 350, line 15(Lo, where arise three peerless stars,
  15. p. 401, line 17Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
  16. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  17. p. 426, line 3[…] I have been the object of two or three pretty serious special official buffetings—is all probably no more […]
  18. p. 434, line 12[…] than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of […]

threes 3

  1. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  2. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  3. p. 371, line 24In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come,

three-score 2

  1. p. 391, line 4My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past,
  2. p. 410, line 15AFTER surmounting three-score and ten,

three-score-and-ten 1

  1. p. 425, line 24[…] through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on memory,) I look upon "Leaves of […]

three-year-olds 1

  1. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,

threshold 1

  1. p. 37, line 23From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements,

threw 2

  1. p. 131, line 25The dark threw its patches down upon me also,
  2. p. 219, line 13How you sprang—how you threw off the costumes of peace with indifferent hand,

thrice 1

  1. p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)

thrice-tied 1

  1. p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!

thrift 6

  1. p. 152, line 21Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
  2. p. 187, line 9(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)
  3. p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
  4. p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
  5. p. 417, line 13The vaunted work of thrift, goods, dwellings, forge, street, iron bridge,

thrift's 1

  1. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,

thrifty 2

  1. p. 168, line 27Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
  2. 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,

thrill 1

  1. p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.

thrill'd 2 today: thrilled

  1. p. 276, line 3I thrill'd with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me,
  2. p. 393, line 8As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,

thrilled see thrill'd

thrills 1

  1. p. 49, line 24Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy,

thrive 1

  1. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,

throat 20

  1. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  2. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  3. p. 32, line 16Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat,
  4. p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
  5. p. 87, line 7Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
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  1. p. 146, line 6To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
  2. p. 196, line 14Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
  3. p. 199, line 13O throat! O trembling throat!
  4. p. 200, line 7O throat! O throbbing heart!
  5. p. 256, line 9Song of the bleeding throat,
  6. p. 281, line 1Loud O my throat, and clear O soul!
  7. p. 297, line 11After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races, after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
  8. 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,
  9. p. 374, line 16Inflating my throat, you divine average,
  10. p. 381, line 16Hasten throat and sound your last,
  11. p. 384, line 37[…] from Aloft,) 393 Washington's Monument, February, 1885, 393 Of That Blithe Throat of Thine, 394 Broadway, 394 To Get the Final Lilt of Songs […]
  12. p. 394, line 1Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank,
  13. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,
  14. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;

throats 4

  1. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,
  2. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  3. p. 287, line 25The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are choked with their own blood,
  4. p. 421, line 7All human lives, throats, wishes, brains—all experiences' utterance;

throb 4

  1. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
  2. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
  3. p. 318, line 22What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,
  4. p. 375, line 27I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth,

throbb'd 1 today: throbbed

  1. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,

throbbed see throbb'd

throbbest 1

  1. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,

throbbing 2

  1. p. 200, line 7O throat! O throbbing heart!
  2. p. 358, line 30Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,

throbbings 2

  1. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,
  2. p. 314, line 25Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,

throbs 3

  1. p. 98, line 13Where I may feel the throbs of your heart or rest upon your hip,
  2. p. 245, line 23Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,
  3. p. 390, line 22All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work,

throe 2

  1. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  2. p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)

throes 9

  1. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  2. p. 56, line 15Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
  3. p. 147, line 14The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
  4. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
  5. 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,
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  1. p. 204, line 20Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;
  2. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  3. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  4. p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,

thrones 1

  1. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)

throng'd 1 today: thronged

  1. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,

thronged see throng'd

throttled 1

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

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throughout 3

  1. p. 11, line 14Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands,
  2. p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
  3. p. 426, line 25[…] that was from the first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to be achiev'd, I […]

throw 3

  1. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  2. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
  3. p. 203, line 14I throw myself upon your breast my father,

throwing 7

  1. p. 58, line 15Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
  2. p. 183, line 25We detachments steady throwing,
  3. p. 197, line 9Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves,
  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. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  6. p. 343, line 21Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
  7. p. 427, line 14[…] to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry to put them in its […]

thrown 8

  1. p. 40, line 14As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers,
  2. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
  3. p. 99, line 17Now by the post-and-rail fences where the old stones thrown there, pick'd from the fields, have accumulated,
  4. p. 100, line 23Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,
  5. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  6. p. 323, line 14Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
  7. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  8. p. 430, line 6[…] and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to […]

throws 1

  1. p. 144, line 14My left foot is on the gunwale, my right arm throws far out the coils of slender rope,

thrum 1

  1. p. 68, line 8Easily written loose-finger'd chords—I feel the thrum of your climax and close.

thrush 5

  1. p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,
  2. p. 256, line 6Solitary the thrush,
  3. p. 308, line 24This common marvel I beheld—the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young,
  4. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  5. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;

thrust 2

  1. p. 306, line 24The spear thrust in thy side.
  2. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,

thrusting 2

  1. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  2. p. 98, line 12Or if you will, thrusting me beneath your clothing,

t-h-t 2

  1. p. 248, line 9I hear the sounds of the different missiles, the short t-h-t! t-h-t! of the rifle-balls,

thud 2

  1. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
  2. p. 413, line 12The rifle crack—the cannon thud—the rushing forth of men from their tents;

thumb 7

  1. p. 35, line 8The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
  2. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,
  3. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
  4. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  5. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  6. 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,
  7. p. 334, line 23Thumb extended, finger uplifted, apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen,

thump 1

  1. p. 222, line 24So strong you thump O terrible drums—so loud you bugles blow.

thunder 6

  1. p. 146, line 6To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
  2. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
  3. p. 229, line 2Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow'd after the lightning,
  4. p. 229, line 20How the true thunder bellows after the lightning—how bright the flashes of lightning!
  5. p. 229, line 24Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!
  6. p. 357, line 22Swift to thy spell a shuddering hum like distant thunder rolls,

thunder-cloud 1

  1. p. 205, line 12That sport'st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud,

thunder-cracking 1

  1. p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,

thunder-crash 1

  1. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,

thus 12

  1. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
  2. p. 92, line 30Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,
  3. p. 93, line 20O HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
  4. p. 98, line 15For thus merely touching you is enough, is best,
  5. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
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  1. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  2. p. 168, line 7Thus on the northern coast,
  3. p. 243, line 23Thus in silence in dreams' projections,
  4. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  5. p. 276, line 1Thus by blue Ontario's shore,
  6. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,
  7. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)

thwarting 1

  1. p. 252, line 22Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all,

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thyself 18

  1. p. 182, line 16For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.
  2. p. 306, line 19In that thou wouldst not really sell thyself however great the price,
  3. p. 320, line 4Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
  4. p. 320, line 10Gigantic, visionary, thyself a visionary,
  5. p. 348, line 3Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
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  1. p. 348, line 17Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone,
  2. p. 350, line 3Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
  3. p. 350, line 13Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
  4. p. 350, line 14Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself.
  5. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,
  6. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  7. p. 352, line 21Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,
  8. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,
  9. p. 366, line 3Ah, but thou hast thyself now appear'd to us—we know thee,
  10. p. 366, line 4Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of thyself,
  11. p. 367, line 14Thou yieldest up thyself.

Tiberias 1

  1. p. 119, line 10You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias!

tickets 1

  1. p. 68, line 21Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,

ticking 1

  1. p. 422, line 7The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,

tide 11

  1. p. 46, line 8Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  2. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
  3. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  4. p. 143, line 25Is the tide out? I join the group of clam-diggers on the flats,
  5. p. 202, line 12Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide,
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  1. p. 284, line 2The schooner near by sleepily dropping down the tide, the little boat slack-tow'd astern,
  2. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
  3. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
  4. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
  5. p. 411, line 30ANOTHER NOTE.—" He went out with the tide and the sunset," was a phrase I heard from a […]
  6. p. 411, line 35[…] to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part of day, of punctually visiting those […]

tides 13

  1. p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  2. p. 231, line 3City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
  3. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
  4. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  5. p. 296, line 2Thy name an earth, with mountains, fields and tides.
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  1. p. 299, line 5Beneath this face that appears so impassive hell's tides continually run,
  2. p. 338, line 19Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing,
  3. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  4. p. 384, line 24[…] in the Mist—Had I the Choice—You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And […]
  5. p. 389, line 17You tides with ceaseless swell! you power that does this work!
  6. p. 391, line 9Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:
  7. p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,
  8. p. 394, line 10What hurrying human tides, or day or night!

tidings 1

  1. p. 277, line 29Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable,

tidy 1

  1. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,

tie 5

  1. p. 213, line 24(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,)
  2. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  3. p. 247, line 19I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.
  4. p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
  5. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,

tied 6

  1. p. 39, line 29The malform'd limbs are tied to the surgeon's table,
  2. p. 75, line 12Tied in your mouth, in mine it begins to be loosen'd.)
  3. p. 138, line 16Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
  4. p. 310, line 9With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
  5. p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
  6. p. 350, line 8Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed, the edifice on sure foundations tied,)

tied-over 1

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

tier 2

  1. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,

tiers 1

  1. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,

ties 7

  1. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,
  2. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
  3. p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
  4. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
  5. p. 276, line 4Till the tissues that held me parted their ties upon me.
  6. p. 338, line 10Till when the ties loosen,
  7. p. 338, line 11All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,

tigers 1

  1. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,

tight 8

  1. p. 51, line 9The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
  2. p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
  3. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  4. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  5. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  6. p. 216, line 13Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
  7. p. 283, line 17The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
  8. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,

tighten 1

  1. p. 59, line 12I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.

tightening 1

  1. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,

tighter 1

  1. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,

tightly 3

  1. p. 110, line 7While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
  2. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  3. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

till 76

  1. p. 20, line 22I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left wafted hither,
  2. p. 29, line 14Hoping to cease not till death.
  3. p. 31, line 9Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  4. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  5. p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
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  1. p. 66, line 6Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,
  2. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  3. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
  4. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  5. p. 75, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  6. p. 81, line 18They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  7. p. 89, line 11I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
  8. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  9. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  10. p. 92, line 15For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
  11. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  12. p. 109, line 11I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
  13. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  14. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  15. p. 144, line 9There in a huge kettle of boiling water the lobsters shall be boil'd till their color becomes scarlet.
  16. p. 152, line 10All does very well till one flash of defiance.
  17. p. 153, line 15All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears;
  18. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  19. p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
  20. p. 186, line 5Till with sound of trumpet,
  21. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  22. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  23. p. 197, line 31Till of a sudden,
  24. p. 198, line 7I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.
  25. p. 203, line 16I hold you so firm till you answer me something.
  26. p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,
  27. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  28. p. 216, line 15Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull,
  29. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
  30. p. 219, line 24Till with ominous hum our hive at daybreak pour'd out its myriads.
  31. p. 223, line 1To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then,
  32. p. 228, line 14RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
  33. p. 233, line 9Till of a sudden unlook'd for by defiles through the woods, gain'd at night,
  34. p. 233, line 24Till we turn'd menacing here, and then he left us.
  35. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  36. p. 238, line 6Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
  37. p. 238, line 18Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
  38. p. 239, line 4Till after midnight glimmer upon us the lights of a dim-lighted building,
  39. p. 241, line 6By deserts parch'd, snows chill'd, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,
  40. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  41. p. 258, line 5Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the prairies meeting,
  42. 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.)
  43. p. 276, line 4Till the tissues that held me parted their ties upon me.
  44. p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
  45. p. 288, line 8For till all ceases neither must you cease.
  46. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
  47. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  48. p. 299, line 22Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,
  49. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  50. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  51. p. 300, line 3Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.
  52. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  53. p. 304, line 6Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,
  54. p. 323, line 22Till I put forth myself, my prayer, once more to Thee,
  55. p. 338, line 10Till when the ties loosen,
  56. p. 343, line 22Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
  57. p. 343, line 23Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
  58. p. 345, line 5I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
  59. p. 345, line 6I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
  60. p. 354, line 2Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
  61. p. 355, line 15Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
  62. p. 364, line 10It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me,
  63. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  64. p. 378, line 3Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,
  65. p. 378, line 9Till night and sleep pass over?)
  66. p. 400, line 23The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
  67. p. 409, line 18I keep mine till the last.)
  68. p. 432, line 24[…] plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own […]
  69. p. 432, line 26[…] its own way for good or bad. Not till after all this, did I attempt any serious acquaintance with […]

tillage 1

  1. p. 346, line 14(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

till'd 1 today: tilled

  1. p. 281, line 4All till'd and untill'd fields expand before me,

tilled see till'd

tilth 1

  1. p. 49, line 10Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!

timber-lined 1

  1. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!

timber-raft 1

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

timbers 2

  1. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
  2. p. 324, line 34Let the old timbers part, I will not part,

timbre 1

  1. p. 395, line 18(So firm—so liquid-soft—again that tremulous, manly timbre!

Timbuctoo 1

  1. p. 117, line 22I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,

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time-bang'd 2

  1. p. 407, line 35[…] like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry […]
  2. p. 408, line 3[…] there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited good […]

times 44

  1. p. 15, line 5How there is something relentless in their fate all times,
  2. p. 15, line 6How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
  3. p. 20, line 13I conn'd old times,
  4. p. 27, line 11(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
  5. p. 27, line 12Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
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  1. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  2. p. 59, line 16The courage of present times and all times,
  3. p. 61, line 14Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their number, was the price they took in advance,
  4. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  5. p. 77, line 10(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
  6. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  7. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  8. p. 124, line 22I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
  9. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  10. p. 137, line 12All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
  11. p. 138, line 18All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,
  12. p. 218, line 12LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
  13. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  14. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  15. p. 263, line 20Nor victory, nor defeat—no more time's dark events,
  16. p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
  17. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  18. p. 298, line 9We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
  19. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,
  20. p. 310, line 11The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
  21. p. 338, line 23With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,
  22. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
  23. p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,
  24. p. 367, line 2Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope,
  25. p. 387, line 23The wanderings as in dreams—the meditation of old times resumed—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
  26. p. 408, line 20[…] bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army […]
  27. p. 408, line 24[…] that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all States,—or North or South—the […]
  28. p. 408, line 30[…] there after all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed […]
  29. p. 420, line 2Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,
  30. p. 421, line 3Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere—the long, long times' thick dotted roads, areas,
  31. p. 427, line 44[…] true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and […]
  32. p. 431, line 36[…] in these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they are […]
  33. p. 431, line 37[…] old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they are of incalculable value […]
  34. p. 435, line 37[…] force is behind everything, just the same. The times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily […]
  35. p. 436, line 3[…] and the best—more eligible now than any times of old were. I will also want my utterances (I […]
  36. p. 436, line 32[…] facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all times, there is nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry […]

timid 2

  1. p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
  2. p. 222, line 20Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer,

timidly 1

  1. p. 74, line 17Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore,

timing 1

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

timorous 1

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

timothy 3

  1. p. 35, line 26I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy,
  2. p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,
  3. p. 281, line 15Open unseeded fallows, rich fields of clover and timothy,

tin 1

  1. p. 149, line 10Lands of coal, copper, lead, tin, zinc,

tinge 3

  1. p. 286, line 12The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree,
  2. p. 402, line 19With rosy tinge reddening the land he'd served,
  3. p. 434, line 34[…] and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and […]

tinged 5

  1. p. 46, line 7Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  2. p. 96, line 19Yet you are beautiful to me you faint tinged roots, you make me think of death,
  3. p. 130, line 22Look'd on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,
  4. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
  5. p. 359, line 5Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple,

tiniest 1

  1. p. 374, line 24Illustrious the mystery of motion in all beings, even the tiniest insect,

tinkles 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,

tinkling 1

  1. p. 313, line 16The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets.

tinners 1

  1. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,

tinning 1

  1. p. 41, line 11The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar,

tin-roofing 1

  1. p. 173, line 18Blacksmithing, glass-blowing, nail-making, coopering, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing,

tints 1

  1. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,

tiny 1

  1. p. 302, line 9Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,

tip 1

  1. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,

tips 1

  1. p. 65, line 20They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,

tipsy 1

  1. p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,

tire 3

  1. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  2. p. 244, line 16Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
  3. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,

tired 3

  1. p. 139, line 5In farmers' barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired,
  2. p. 214, line 17How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
  3. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)

tireless 5

  1. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
  2. p. 95, line 2Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
  3. p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,
  4. p. 253, line 5That with muttering voice through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
  5. p. 254, line 24To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,

tirelessly 3

  1. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  2. p. 198, line 19The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing,
  3. p. 343, line 18Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

tires 4

  1. p. 35, line 7The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the promenaders,
  2. p. 125, line 5Traveling with me you find what never tires.
  3. p. 125, line 6The earth never tires,
  4. p. 303, line 10I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

tiresome 2

  1. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  2. p. 308, line 11Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?

tis 10

  1. p. 51, line 15I hear the violoncello, ('tis the young man's heart's complaint,)
  2. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  3. p. 236, line 20Lo, 'tis autumn,
  4. p. 239, line 6'Tis a large old church at the crossing roads, now an impromptu hospital,
  5. p. 246, line 27('Tis some mother's large transparent face,
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  1. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  2. p. 348, line 15Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
  3. p. 389, line 4Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with daybreak,
  4. p. 393, line 18(Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same—the heir legitimate, continued ever,
  5. p. 409, line 16But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,

tissues 1

  1. p. 276, line 4Till the tissues that held me parted their ties upon me.

titi 1

  1. p. 360, line 3I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;

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tobacco 2

  1. p. 39, line 28He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;
  2. p. 282, line 13Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp or tobacco in the Borders,

to-day 76

  1. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  2. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  3. p. 47, line 10What behaved well in the past or behaves well to-day is not such a wonder,
  4. p. 92, line 2To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.
  5. p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,
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  1. p. 96, line 3Resolv'd to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,
  2. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
  3. p. 110, line 2The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
  4. p. 110, line 5But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,
  5. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  6. p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,
  7. p. 160, line 11We build to ours to-day.
  8. p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
  9. p. 164, line 32Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd,
  10. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  11. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,
  12. p. 190, line 1Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak properly a single word?)
  13. p. 192, line 28And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is,
  14. p. 192, line 29And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
  15. p. 193, line 11Ride to-day through Manhattan.
  16. p. 194, line 10To-day our Antipodes comes.
  17. p. 195, line 26As to-day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you,
  18. p. 207, line 23TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,
  19. p. 229, line 14What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?
  20. p. 263, line 15HUSH'D be the camps to-day,
  21. p. 268, line 15To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
  22. p. 278, line 26Fecund America—to-day,
  23. p. 284, line 24Moves to-day in a new country.
  24. p. 286, line 2I do not see any of it upon you to-day, or perhaps I am deceiv'd,
  25. p. 300, line 8It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
  26. p. 300, line 10It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
  27. p. 300, line 13All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.
  28. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  29. p. 306, line 4Beseems to-day a wreck driven by the gale, a mastless hulk,
  30. p. 319, line 24(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
  31. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  32. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  33. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.
  34. p. 333, line 6Is to-day nothing? is the beginningless past nothing?
  35. p. 348, line 13The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.
  36. p. 350, line 11These! these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.
  37. p. 351, line 5Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
  38. p. 361, line 20Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,
  39. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  40. p. 366, line 20Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes.
  41. p. 384, line 16[…] The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born […]
  42. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;
  43. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.
  44. p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,
  45. p. 393, line 5Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
  46. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;
  47. p. 396, line 28Struggling to-day the same—battling the same.
  48. p. 398, line 1Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
  49. p. 398, line 27To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
  50. p. 399, line 22To-day, at least, contention sunk entire—peace, brotherhood uprisen;
  51. p. 402, line 12To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia,
  52. p. 408, line 9[…] sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel to-day almost a part of some frolicsome wave, or for sporting […]
  53. p. 410, line 19To-day at twilight, hobbling, answering company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,
  54. p. 412, line 5Put on the old ship all her power to-day!
  55. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
  56. p. 415, line 19To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck—to thee from us the expectant eye,
  57. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  58. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
  59. p. 427, line 13[…] in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their […]
  60. p. 427, line 28[…] examples and practical occupations in the United States to-day […]
  61. p. 429, line 14[…] in the mind. Think of the United States to-day—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder'd in […]
  62. p. 429, line 22[…] the multitudinousness, vitality, and the unprecedented stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with […]
  63. p. 429, line 43[…] of poetry, not only the divine works that to-day stand ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend […]
  64. p. 430, line 10[…] illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands […]
  65. p. 431, line 5[…] literature is in those poems for us of to-day—though perhaps the best parts of current character in nations […]
  66. p. 431, line 14[…] receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent […]
  67. p. 435, line 36[…] preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same […]
  68. p. 436, line 2[…] I was to show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible […]
  69. p. 437, line 21[…] the " Leaves" was my conviction (just as strong to-day as ever) that the crowning growth of the United States […]
  70. p. 438, line 22[…] our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the […]

to-day's 5

  1. p. 12, line 36To-day's eidólons.
  2. p. 159, line 3Hidden and cover'd by to-day's, foundation of to-day's,
  3. p. 185, line 19We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
  4. p. 407, line 25However that may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I […]

toe 2

  1. p. 9, line 3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  2. 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.

toe-joints 1

  1. p. 87, line 16Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;

toes 1

  1. p. 87, line 16Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;

together 46

  1. p. 19, line 15The ancestor-continents away group'd together,
  2. p. 26, line 14Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!
  3. p. 38, line 14They rise together, they slowly circle around.
  4. p. 46, line 17We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,
  5. p. 51, line 5I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
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  1. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  2. 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,
  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. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  5. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  6. p. 93, line 8We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
  7. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  8. 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,
  9. p. 107, line 21How together through life, through dangers, odium, unchanging, long and long,
  10. p. 108, line 1WE two boys together clinging,
  11. p. 109, line 5There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.
  12. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  13. p. 139, line 9On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,
  14. p. 184, line 31Holding single or together, steady moving to the front, all for us,
  15. p. 197, line 16Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
  16. p. 197, line 24While we bask, we two together.
  17. p. 197, line 25Two together!
  18. p. 197, line 30While we two keep together.
  19. p. 200, line 13We two together no more.
  20. p. 216, line 11The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
  21. p. 233, line 14Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle,
  22. p. 234, line 7Quite within hearing, feasting, clinking wineglasses together over their victory.
  23. p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
  24. p. 247, line 20(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
  25. p. 257, line 18As we wander'd together the solemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,)
  26. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  27. p. 269, line 3That only holds men together which aggregates all in a living principle, as the hold of the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants.
  28. p. 286, line 10The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,
  29. p. 298, line 8That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,
  30. p. 304, line 3The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
  31. p. 316, line 22The lands to be welded together.
  32. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,
  33. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  34. p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
  35. p. 368, line 23I know thee, savage spirit—we have communed together,
  36. p. 377, line 5I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.
  37. p. 382, line 9(Is it night? are we here together alone?)
  38. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  39. p. 422, line 9Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;
  40. p. 422, line 13Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
  41. p. 422, line 14If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,

toil 7

  1. p. 162, line 31Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
  2. p. 281, line 20Toil on heroes! harvest the products!
  3. p. 281, line 23Toil on heroes! toil well! handle the weapons well!
  4. p. 295, line 26Labor and toil, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college,
  5. p. 364, line 6You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,

toil'd 2 today: toiled

  1. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  2. p. 224, line 9These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!

toiled see toil'd

toilers 1

  1. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,

toiling 3

  1. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,
  2. p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
  3. p. 236, line 4Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun—the dust-cover'd men,

toils 4

  1. p. 12, line 23Or warrior's, martyr's, hero's toils,
  2. p. 252, line 22Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all,
  3. p. 281, line 7I see the heroes at other toils,
  4. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,

toilsome 2

  1. p. 186, line 2Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
  2. p. 240, line 16AS toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,

token 4

  1. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
  2. p. 100, line 5And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades, this calamus-root shall,
  3. p. 106, line 5Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love;
  4. p. 208, line 17Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,

tokens 6

  1. p. 54, line 29They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
  2. p. 54, line 30I wonder where they get those tokens,
  3. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  4. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  5. p. 377, line 2Nor houses nor lands, nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,
  6. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)

Tokio 1

  1. p. 117, line 23I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,

told 14

  1. p. 48, line 1Less the reminders of properties told my words,
  2. p. 62, line 9List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
  3. p. 76, line 5They and all would resume what I have told them.
  4. p. 100, line 22Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,
  5. p. 132, line 15Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word,
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  1. p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
  2. p. 180, line 1The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow, all or any is best,
  3. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
  4. p. 271, line 17Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
  5. p. 319, line 2All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,
  6. p. 329, line 9Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together,
  7. p. 402, line 16As the Greek's signal flame, by antique records told,
  8. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  9. p. 421, line 9Still something not yet told in poesy's voice or print—something lacking,

told-out 1

  1. p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)

tolerant 1

  1. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?

tolerating 2

  1. p. 163, line 16Thou Union holding all, fusing, absorbing, tolerating all,
  2. p. 350, line 12Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee,

toleration 2

  1. p. 393, line 24Wherever Freedom, pois'd by Toleration, sway'd by Law,
  2. p. 419, line 15The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,

toll 1

  1. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,

tolling 2

  1. p. 257, line 1With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang,

tolls 1

  1. p. 354, line 8An unceasing death-bell tolls there.

tomahawk 1

  1. p. 417, line 8Sank faintly low to the floor (tightly grasping the tomahawk handle,)

tomb 4

  1. p. 160, line 17Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
  2. p. 294, line 22WHAT may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
  3. p. 295, line 32O thou within this tomb,
  4. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,

Tombigbee 2

  1. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,
  2. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,

tomb-leaves 1

  1. p. 96, line 12Tomb-leaves, body-leaves growing up above me above death,

tombs 3

  1. p. 159, line 5Silent the broken-lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt, silent all those century-baffling tombs,
  2. p. 160, line 12Mightier than Egypt's tombs,
  3. p. 365, line 20Ruin'd cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,

tombstone 1

  1. p. 376, line 22And set a tombstone here.

to-morrow 2

  1. p. 195, line 27As to-morrow from the other side the queen of England sends her eldest son to you.
  2. p. 231, line 22There is the camp, one regiment departs to-morrow,

tone 1

  1. p. 97, line 9Give me your tone therefore O death, that I may accord with it,

tones 7

  1. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  2. p. 19, line 4Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk,
  3. p. 51, line 8The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
  4. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  5. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  6. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  7. p. 415, line 28Children's and women's tones—rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,

tongs 1

  1. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,

tongue 18

  1. p. 29, line 11My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
  2. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  3. p. 39, line 17The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,
  4. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  5. p. 50, line 13With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
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  1. p. 75, line 11(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
  2. p. 87, line 5Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
  3. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,
  4. p. 146, line 8To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.
  5. p. 179, line 22My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,
  6. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  7. p. 265, line 10I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,
  8. p. 269, line 6(Soul of love and tongue of fire!
  9. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  10. p. 354, line 1This face is an epilepsy, its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
  11. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)
  12. p. 366, line 6BY broad Potomac's shore, again old tongue,
  13. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,

tongues 12

  1. p. 33, line 23O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues,
  2. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  3. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  4. p. 166, line 9Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense,
  5. p. 200, line 30For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you,
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  1. p. 286, line 22That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
  2. p. 310, line 18Blending with Nature's rhythmus all the tongues of nations;
  3. p. 312, line 5The tongues of violins,
  4. p. 312, line 6(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
  5. p. 325, line 11And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.
  6. 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,
  7. p. 421, line 8After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,

tongue-talks 1

  1. p. 364, line 7You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;)

to-night 3

  1. p. 94, line 4To-day I go consort with Nature's darlings, to-night too,
  2. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  3. p. 356, line 7Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.

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took 8

  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. 71, line 24And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
  3. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  4. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  5. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  6. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;

tools 5

  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. 129, line 2Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!
  3. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  4. p. 174, line 6The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,
  5. 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,

tooth-chisel 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,

top 9

  1. p. 9, line 3Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
  2. p. 35, line 4I peeringly view them from the top.
  3. p. 113, line 12I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque,
  4. p. 166, line 16Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high,
  5. p. 211, line 8Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
  6. p. 212, line 10One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
  7. p. 221, line 24Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top,
  8. 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.

top-gallant 1

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

top-knot 1

  1. p. 65, line 25Say, old top-knot, what do you want?

topmost 1

  1. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,

topples 1

  1. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.

tops 5

  1. p. 63, line 4The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top,
  2. 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.
  3. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  4. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  5. p. 343, line 4A soprano at intervals sailing buoyantly over the tops of immense waves,

top-sail 1

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

topsails 1

  1. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,

torch 3

  1. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  2. p. 305, line 20Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
  3. p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,

torches 5

  1. p. 41, line 19Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw,
  2. p. 60, line 20The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
  3. p. 234, line 12Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation;
  4. p. 239, line 19The glisten of the little steel instruments catching the glint of the torches,
  5. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,

torchlight 1

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

torment 2

  1. p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
  2. p. 90, line 20The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest,

torn 8

  1. p. 62, line 4The three were all torn and cover'd with the boy's blood.
  2. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
  3. p. 165, line 3But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff,
  4. p. 192, line 18As for me, (torn, stormy, amid these vehement days,)
  5. p. 204, line 7A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
  6. p. 261, line 20And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,
  7. p. 311, line 7Victoria! see'st thou in powder-smoke the banners torn but flying? the rout of the baffled?
  8. p. 377, line 7Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battle-fields gazing,

torpid 3

  1. p. 72, line 5My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
  2. p. 158, line 3To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire,
  3. p. 394, line 3E'en the profoundest chill, as now—a torpid pulse, a brain unnerv'd,

torrents 3

  1. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.
  2. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  3. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.

torrid 1

  1. p. 219, line 2What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)

tortoise 1

  1. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,

torture 1

  1. p. 148, line 3To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face!

toss 5

  1. p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  2. p. 77, line 17Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
  3. p. 91, line 11It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
  4. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,

toss'd 3 today: tossed

  1. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  2. p. 250, line 18On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
  3. p. 272, line 6By the roadside others disdainfully toss'd.

tossed see toss'd

tosses 2

  1. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  2. p. 307, line 13The bullock's head tosses restless high in the air with raging eyes,

tossing 4

  1. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  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. 198, line 19The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing,
  4. p. 385, line 11The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,

tost 1

  1. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)

total 2

  1. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
  2. p. 157, line 19Shapes of Democracy total, result of centuries,

toting 1

  1. p. 41, line 9The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,

touch 39

  1. p. 43, line 25This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
  2. p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
  3. p. 52, line 11To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
  4. p. 52, line 12Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
  5. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
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  1. p. 53, line 2You villain touch! what are you doing? my breath is tight in its throat,
  2. p. 53, line 4Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
  3. p. 53, line 14(What is less or more than a touch?)
  4. p. 65, line 17They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
  5. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  6. p. 83, line 14To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
  7. p. 89, line 5They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me.
  8. p. 92, line 14I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
  9. p. 95, line 15Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
  10. p. 100, line 10Wandering, point to or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
  11. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  12. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  13. p. 175, line 13Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother, nighest neighbor—woman in mother, sister, wife,
  14. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  15. p. 179, line 18Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
  16. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  17. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  18. p. 192, line 12We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,
  19. p. 203, line 18Touch me with your lips as I touch those I love,
  20. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  21. p. 213, line 9Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
  22. p. 238, line 4One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
  23. p. 247, line 15The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
  24. p. 251, line 3Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
  25. p. 253, line 15Touch my mouth ere you depart, press my lips close,
  26. p. 285, line 19I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.
  27. p. 338, line 5Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,
  28. p. 374, line 27Illustrious whatever I see or hear or touch, to the last.
  29. p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,
  30. p. 404, line 1The touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,

touch'd 9 today: touched

  1. p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
  2. p. 49, line 22Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd, it shall be you.
  3. p. 62, line 13We closed with him, the yards entangled, the cannon touch'd,
  4. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  5. p. 228, line 4Divider of daybreak you, cutting the air, touch'd by the sun, measuring the sky,
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  1. p. 293, line 9While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
  2. p. 327, line 12Be careful darkness! already what was it touch'd me?
  3. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  4. p. 435, line 30[…] giving the last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of […]

touched see touch'd

touches 4

  1. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  2. p. 382, line 8Who touches this touches a man,
  3. p. 407, line 6[…] have probably not been enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like […]

touching 6

  1. p. 98, line 15For thus merely touching you is enough, is best,
  2. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
  3. p. 138, line 2Forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
  4. p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
  5. p. 266, line 27Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,
  6. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,

touching-distant 1

  1. p. 352, line 8Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,

tough 2

  1. p. 55, line 29Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
  2. p. 144, line 2Behold me well-clothed going gayly or returning in the afternoon, my brood of tough boys accompanying me,

tougher 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;

tournament 1

  1. p. 357, line 4I see the tournament, I see the contestants incased in heavy armor seated on stately champing horses,

toward 85

  1. p. 16, line 10Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,
  2. p. 26, line 1Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
  3. p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
  4. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
  5. p. 51, line 2To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
77 more lines
  1. p. 52, line 18Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
  2. p. 55, line 4Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
  3. p. 58, line 10Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
  4. p. 59, line 5The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them,
  5. p. 63, line 7The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
  6. p. 63, line 12Toward twelve there in the beams of the moon they surrender to us.
  7. p. 66, line 18Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed,
  8. p. 78, line 12I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
  9. p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
  10. p. 99, line 25Plucking something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me,
  11. p. 103, line 10In the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me,
  12. p. 103, line 12ARE you the new person drawn toward me?
  13. p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
  14. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  15. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  16. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  17. p. 113, line 10I hear the Coptic refrain toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile,
  18. p. 120, line 19Toward you all, in America's name,
  19. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
  20. p. 125, line 3Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
  21. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  22. p. 127, line 23But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
  23. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  24. p. 130, line 23Look'd toward the lower bay to notice the vessels arriving,
  25. p. 134, line 12You furnish your parts toward eternity,
  26. p. 134, line 13Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
  27. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  28. p. 144, line 6O the sweetness of the Fifth-month morning upon the water as I row just before sunrise toward the buoys,
  29. p. 145, line 16I leap in the lower'd boat, we row toward our prey where he lies,
  30. p. 150, line 21The swing of their axes on the square-hew'd log shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
  31. p. 179, line 16All merges toward the presentation of the unspoken meanings of the earth,
  32. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  33. p. 179, line 18Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
  34. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  35. p. 200, line 29Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it really to me?
  36. p. 202, line 21As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
  37. p. 209, line 9Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,
  38. p. 209, line 12Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
  39. p. 211, line 2Up with your anchor—shake out your sails—steer straight toward Boston bay.
  40. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  41. p. 224, line 13On floats the wind over the breast of the sea setting in toward land,
  42. p. 230, line 16The insane knife toward the Mother of All.
  43. p. 233, line 8Jauntily forward they went with quick step toward Gowanus' waters,
  44. p. 234, line 18As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
  45. p. 249, line 10As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)
  46. p. 265, line 25America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
  47. p. 268, line 5(Lo, high toward heaven, this day,
  48. p. 268, line 22Lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
  49. p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
  50. p. 272, line 11Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
  51. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  52. p. 276, line 2While the winds fann'd me and the waves came trooping toward me,
  53. p. 277, line 15All, all toward the mystic ocean tending.
  54. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
  55. p. 295, line 14Toward a tall-domed school.
  56. p. 297, line 14Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—none refuse, all attend,
  57. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  58. p. 301, line 4Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  59. p. 301, line 26By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
  60. p. 306, line 10Of aspirations toward the far ideal, enthusiast's dreams of brotherhood,
  61. p. 310, line 27Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend,
  62. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  63. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
  64. p. 334, line 21Had known what it was to be flush, grew low-spirited toward the last, sicken'd, was help'd by a contribution,
  65. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  66. p. 338, line 2Walk out with me toward the unknown region,
  67. p. 341, line 12Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me,
  68. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  69. p. 361, line 4Numberless crowded streets, high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies,
  70. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  71. p. 369, line 4Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars,
  72. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  73. p. 403, line 22Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on,
  74. p. 414, line 18Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All,
  75. p. 433, line 15Toward the last I had among much else look'd over Edgar […]
  76. p. 434, line 17[…] at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward those "Leaves" from the first. The word I myself put […]
  77. p. 438, line 18[…] attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or æstheticism […]

towards 17

  1. p. 19, line 27With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen,
  2. p. 19, line 28With eyes retrospective towards me.
  3. p. 41, line 17Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton-wood or pecan-trees,
  4. p. 95, line 3I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
  5. p. 177, line 26With her ample back towards every beholder,
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  1. p. 216, line 19Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  2. p. 313, line 20I hear dervishes monotonously chanting, interspers'd with frantic shouts, as they spin around turning always towards Mecca,
  3. p. 365, line 24Beaming towards thee.)
  4. p. 400, line 9Sharping their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half-caught words:
  5. p. 427, line 31[…] with establish'd poems, is their different relative attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption […]
  6. p. 427, line 33[…] of the ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for […]
  7. p. 427, line 34[…] the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above all […]
  8. p. 428, line 9[…] or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds of the […]
  9. p. 430, line 19[…] remains to be said that there is even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate […]
  10. p. 432, line 15[…] and object of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or […]
  11. p. 436, line 22[…] a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in […]

towels 1

  1. p. 31, line 16Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty,

tower 1

  1. p. 168, line 1Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature,

towering 11

  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.
  2. p. 163, line 14Thy offspring towering e'er so high, yet higher Thee above all towering,
  3. p. 181, line 10Lo! keen-eyed towering science,
  4. p. 228, line 18I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail'd out to sea,
  5. p. 309, line 30The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
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  1. 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,
  2. p. 387, line 20A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
  3. p. 393, line 9Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
  4. p. 398, line 4Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps,
  5. p. 429, line 2[…] say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements of […]

towers 3

  1. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
  2. p. 316, line 14Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams!
  3. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,

town 6

  1. p. 15, line 17We dwell a while in every city and town,
  2. p. 26, line 24Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
  3. p. 121, line 19The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
  4. p. 209, line 18TO get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early,
  5. p. 210, line 2Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.

towns 3

  1. p. 117, line 21I see African and Asiatic towns,
  2. 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,
  3. p. 417, line 12With sudden, indescribable blow—towns drown'd—humanity by thousands slain,

tow-path 1

  1. p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,

tows 2

  1. p. 145, line 19O swift again far out in the ocean the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
  2. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,

toy 1

  1. p. 418, line 21Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy,

trace 3

  1. p. 14, line 24I seek for my own use to trace out here.)
  2. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  3. p. 161, line 1Here shall you trace in flowing operation,

traceable 1

  1. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!

tracings 1

  1. p. 387, line 22How sweet the silent backward tracings!

track 4

  1. p. 130, line 19Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
  2. p. 209, line 9Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship,
  3. p. 272, line 5The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons,
  4. p. 359, line 18Law of thyself complete, thine own track firmly holding,

track'd 1 today: tracked

  1. p. 53, line 6Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,

tracked see track'd

trackless 2

  1. p. 19, line 17See, vast trackless spaces,
  2. p. 321, line 3Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,

tracks 6

  1. p. 115, line 9I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth,
  2. p. 116, line 9I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
  3. p. 156, line 3Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,
  4. p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
  5. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  6. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,

trade 9

  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. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  3. p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
  4. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  5. p. 172, line 1Have you reckon'd them for your trade or farm-work? or for the profits of your store?
4 more lines
  1. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  2. p. 228, line 2Nor machinery, vehicles, trade, nor revenues—but you as henceforth I see you,
  3. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  4. p. 419, line 18Your farm—your work, trade, occupation,

trader 1

  1. p. 119, line 11You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!

traders 1

  1. p. 319, line 32The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,

trades 5

  1. p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,
  2. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  3. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,
  4. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
  5. p. 180, line 5Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,

traditions 5

  1. p. 94, line 13ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,
  2. p. 153, line 22What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books, now?
  3. p. 288, line 19What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
  4. p. 305, line 13Not traditions, not the outer authorities are the judges,
  5. p. 305, line 14They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,

traffic 1

  1. p. 222, line 12Over the traffic of cities—over the rumble of wheels in the streets;

tragedies 1

  1. p. 296, line 12(Tragedies, sorrows, laughter, tears—O heaven!

trail 7

  1. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  2. 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,
  3. 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,
  4. p. 184, line 3From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
  5. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,
  6. p. 203, line 12I too am but a trail of drift and debris,
  7. p. 259, line 23Appear'd the cloud, appear'd the long black trail,

trailing 9

  1. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
  2. p. 61, line 2The ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip,
  3. p. 100, line 1Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pull'd off a live-oak in Florida as it hung trailing down,
  4. p. 139, line 15The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind,
  5. p. 144, line 13Another time trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
4 more lines
  1. p. 254, line 10From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,
  2. p. 254, line 13Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,
  3. p. 279, line 24Swarming, trailing on the rear, O you dread accruing army,
  4. p. 360, line 9The range afar, the richness and barrenness, the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss,

trails 3

  1. p. 56, line 19Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
  2. p. 202, line 8Was seiz'd by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
  3. p. 203, line 7You friable shore with trails of debris,

train 11

  1. p. 41, line 10As the fare-collector goes through the train he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
  2. p. 51, line 12The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
  3. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  4. p. 148, line 23Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music,
  5. p. 212, line 4Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
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  1. p. 317, line 27A ceaseless thought, a varied train—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,
  2. p. 359, line 8Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following,
  3. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  4. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  5. p. 409, line 32[…] beyond measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
  6. p. 415, line 26From cheery railroad train—from nearer field, barn, house,

train'd 1 today: trained

  1. p. 51, line 22I hear the train'd soprano (what work with hers is this?)

trained see train'd

trains 7

  1. p. 215, line 2Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish,
  2. p. 225, line 19I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives,
  3. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  4. p. 266, line 14Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
  5. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
  6. p. 403, line 7(Trains of a staggering line in many a strange procession, waggons,
  7. p. 429, line 6[…] imaginative works rest, after their kind, on long trains of presuppositions, often entirely unmention'd by themselves, yet supplying the […]

trait 1

  1. p. 434, line 29The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings […]

traitor 1

  1. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,

traitors 3

  1. p. 52, line 30I am given up by traitors,
  2. p. 154, line 24Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains and the rest.
  3. p. 306, line 12Star crucified—by traitors sold,

tramp 6

  1. p. 73, line 16I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)
  2. p. 121, line 17The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
  3. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  4. p. 220, line 14(How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!
  5. p. 225, line 11I hear the tramp of armies, I hear the challenging sentry,
  6. p. 416, line 9Again I see the stalwart ranks on-filing, rising—I hear the rhythmic tramp of the armies;)

tramping 3

  1. p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
  2. p. 196, line 8Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
  3. p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,

trampling 1

  1. p. 245, line 5I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)

tramps 1

  1. p. 127, line 2To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,

trance 3

  1. p. 92, line 3O something unprov'd! something in a trance!
  2. p. 144, line 22Something unproved! something in a trance!
  3. 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.

tranquil 3

  1. p. 279, line 5Thou lucky Mistress of the tranquil barns,
  2. p. 282, line 9Gather the hay to its myriad mows in the odorous tranquil barns,
  3. p. 294, line 2The tranquil sunny haze, the clinging smoke, the vapor,

transcend 2

  1. p. 429, line 44[…] ahead in the world's reading, but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or […]
  2. p. 429, line 45[…] but dozens more, transcend (some of them immeasurably transcend) all I have done, or could do. But it seem'd […]

transcendent 1

  1. p. 321, line 20O Thou transcendent,

transcendental 1

  1. p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!

transcending 3

  1. p. 146, line 11The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh,
  2. p. 288, line 18What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
  3. p. 349, line 14I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,

transfer 1

  1. p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,

transfers 1

  1. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,

transfigur'd 1 today: transfigured

  1. p. 48, line 26Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd.

transfigured see transfigur'd

transformation 2

  1. p. 336, line 12The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  2. p. 411, line 14Now triumph! transformation! jubilate! *

transformations 1

  1. p. 217, line 16Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,

transient 3

  1. p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
  2. p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,

transit 1

  1. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,

transition 1

  1. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.

transitions 1

  1. 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,

translate 4

  1. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  2. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  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. 356, line 17That I may thee translate.

translated 3

  1. p. 284, line 21What you wept for was translated, pass'd from the grave,
  2. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  3. p. 433, line 4[…] difference where you read,) Shakspere, Ossian, the best translated versions I could get of Homer, Eschylus, Sophocles, the old […]

translates 2

  1. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,

translating 2

  1. p. 197, line 21Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
  2. p. 198, line 22Listen'd to keep, to sing, now translating the notes,

translation 1

  1. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

translations 1

  1. p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,

translatress 1

  1. p. 21, line 1Here spirituality the translatress, the openly-avow'd,

translucent 1

  1. p. 49, line 7Translucent mould of me it shall be you!

transmitted 2

  1. p. 24, line 8A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.
  2. p. 113, line 19I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.

transmitting 1

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

transmuted 1

  1. p. 93, line 2Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,

transmutes 1

  1. p. 136, line 20The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him, he strangely transmutes them,

transmuting 1

  1. p. 395, line 22I fold thenceforth, or seek to fold, within my chants transmuting,

transparent 14

  1. p. 32, line 19I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
  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. 93, line 16We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
  4. p. 122, line 3You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much!
  5. p. 206, line 3Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
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  1. p. 237, line 1Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
  2. p. 246, line 27('Tis some mother's large transparent face,
  3. p. 257, line 15As I walk'd in silence the transparent shadowy night,
  4. p. 257, line 20As I stood on the rising ground in the breeze in the cool transparent night,
  5. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  6. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,
  7. p. 343, line 5A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
  8. p. 360, line 2Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests,
  9. p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;

transpire 1

  1. p. 33, line 16It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,

transplanted 1

  1. p. 324, line 18Transplanted there may rise to stature, knowledge worthy Thee,

transportation 2

  1. p. 316, line 26You, not for trade or transportation only,
  2. p. 413, line 43[…] to the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with […]

transported 1

  1. p. 72, line 9Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

transports 1

  1. p. 232, line 28And the transports swarming with soldiers.

transpose 1

  1. p. 189, line 9I will run transpose it in words, to justify it,

transposed 2

  1. p. 309, line 3If vermin so transposed, so used and bless'd may be,
  2. p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;

trapper 2

  1. p. 36, line 11I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,
  2. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,

trappers 2

  1. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  2. p. 267, line 13The unsurvey'd interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers,

traps 1

  1. p. 40, line 11The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron,

travail 1

  1. p. 307, line 2The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,

travel 15

  1. p. 73, line 24Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  2. p. 73, line 25You must travel it for yourself.
  3. p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
  4. p. 121, line 4Strong and content I travel the open road.
  5. p. 122, line 12O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
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  1. p. 125, line 4Allons! whoever you are come travel with me!
  2. p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
  3. p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
  4. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  5. p. 185, line 19We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
  6. p. 196, line 11They are justified, they are accomplish'd, they shall now be turn'd the other way also, to travel toward you thence,
  7. p. 297, line 4Then travel travel on.
  8. p. 317, line 15Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,
  9. p. 398, line 2Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty;

travel'd 5 today: traveled

  1. p. 71, line 20All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.
  2. p. 92, line 14I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
  3. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  4. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  5. p. 425, line 11[…] and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After completing, as it were, the journey—(a varied […]

traveled see travel'd

traveler 5

  1. p. 26, line 22Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
  2. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  3. p. 141, line 2The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler southward but returning northward early in the spring,
  4. p. 296, line 24A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,
  5. p. 398, line 22As soldier from an ended war return'd—As traveler out of myriads, to the long procession retrospective,

travelers 8

  1. p. 136, line 16Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffee-house claims him,
  2. p. 138, line 15Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows;
  3. 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?
  4. p. 320, line 1The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,
  5. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!
  6. p. 385, line 16To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships,
  7. p. 397, line 15Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
  8. p. 398, line 23Thanks—joyful thanks!—a soldier's, traveler's thanks.

traveling 6

  1. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  2. p. 125, line 5Traveling with me you find what never tires.
  3. p. 125, line 23He traveling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
  4. p. 127, line 15To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
  5. p. 235, line 17I SEE before me now a traveling army halting,
  6. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,

travels 3

  1. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,
  2. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  3. p. 391, line 1Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral,

traverse 3

  1. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  2. p. 115, line 1Others traverse the Zuyder Zee or the Scheld,
  3. p. 370, line 4I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,

traversing 1

  1. p. 289, line 7Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments.

tray 2

  1. p. 242, line 25An attendant follows holding a tray, he carries a refuse pail,
  2. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.

treacherous 5

  1. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  2. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  3. p. 264, line 7(Democracy, the destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere,
  4. p. 268, line 3Slavery—the murderous, treacherous conspiracy to raise it upon the ruins of all the rest,
  5. p. 326, line 8And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

tread 6

  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. 38, line 13My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble,
  3. p. 58, line 19I tread day and night such roads.
  4. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
  5. p. 263, line 12But I with mournful tread,
  6. p. 301, line 29With measur'd tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but firm hand,

treading 2

  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,
  2. p. 297, line 10After treading ground and breasting river and lake,

treason 1

  1. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,

treasur'd 1 today: treasured

  1. p. 198, line 15The rest might not, but I have treasur'd every note,

treasured see treasur'd

treasury 2

  1. p. 171, line 13Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or weekly papers,
  2. p. 432, line 30[…] Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of […]

treat 2

  1. p. 274, line 2I saw you at last refuse to treat but directly with individuals.)
  2. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

treated 3

  1. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  2. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  3. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,

treating 1

  1. p. 11, line 7I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,

tree 12

  1. p. 14, line 15(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
  2. p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  3. p. 139, line 12In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,
  4. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  5. p. 165, line 26Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense.
7 more lines
  1. p. 166, line 10I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting.
  2. p. 240, line 18I mark'd at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;
  3. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
  4. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  5. p. 393, line 8As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
  6. p. 402, line 2And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row;
  7. p. 412, line 19In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life,

trees 50

  1. p. 13, line 6Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees,
  2. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  3. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  4. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  5. p. 46, line 5Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
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  1. p. 55, line 25Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
  2. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
  3. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  4. p. 104, line 2Gushes from the throats of birds hid in the foliage of trees as the sun is risen,
  5. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  6. p. 124, line 15Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
  7. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  8. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
  9. p. 139, line 20Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,
  10. p. 142, line 12Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.
  11. p. 146, line 20To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fall.
  12. p. 150, line 1Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
  13. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  14. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  15. p. 214, line 4Wonders as of those countries, the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
  16. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)
  17. p. 236, line 21Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
  18. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  19. p. 254, line 25To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods,
  20. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  21. p. 266, line 18His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
  22. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  23. p. 278, line 18The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees,
  24. p. 280, line 5They fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass,
  25. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
  26. p. 294, line 8Or flitting among the trees of the apple-orchard, building the nest of his mate,
  27. p. 301, line 6Or stand under trees in the woods,
  28. p. 312, line 17The psalm in the country church or mid the clustering trees, the open air camp-meeting,
  29. p. 313, line 1From Spanish chestnut trees' dense shade,
  30. p. 318, line 10Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
  31. p. 323, line 2Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
  32. p. 337, line 21The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
  33. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  34. p. 355, line 21It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
  35. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
  36. p. 365, line 7Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd in gospels, trees, animals, waters, shall be convey'd,
  37. p. 375, line 20How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!
  38. p. 375, line 21(Surely there is something more in each of the trees, some living soul.)
  39. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  40. p. 388, line 13Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms;
  41. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  42. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,

tree-toad 1

  1. p. 54, line 1And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest,

tree-tops 2

  1. p. 261, line 5Over the tree-tops I float thee a song,
  2. p. 310, line 15Strong hum of forest tree-tops—wind of the mountains,

trellis 1

  1. p. 155, line 14Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch,

trellis'd 2 today: trellised

  1. p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
  2. p. 244, line 12Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,

trellised see trellis'd

tremble 4

  1. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
  2. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
  3. p. 297, line 17O what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?
  4. p. 371, line 7Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim,

trembled 1

  1. p. 241, line 9YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!

trembling 7

  1. p. 80, line 22The furious storm through me careering, I passionately trembling.
  2. p. 81, line 7From the cling of the trembling arm,
  3. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  4. 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;)
  5. p. 199, line 13O throat! O trembling throat!
  6. p. 237, line 6Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
  7. p. 389, line 5Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,

tremblingly 1

  1. p. 37, line 15It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.

tremendous 7

  1. p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
  2. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  3. p. 66, line 23I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up,
  4. p. 242, line 5Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
  5. p. 264, line 15We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
  6. p. 319, line 28The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
  7. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,

tremulous 9

  1. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  2. p. 80, line 14The female form approaching, I pensive, love-flesh tremulous aching,
  3. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  4. p. 94, line 19I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
  5. p. 131, line 1The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels,
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  1. p. 285, line 10Unclaim'd, avoided house—take one breath from my tremulous lips,
  2. p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
  3. p. 359, line 7Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,
  4. p. 395, line 18(So firm—so liquid-soft—again that tremulous, manly timbre!

trenches 5

  1. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
  2. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  3. p. 371, line 21From their graves in the trenches ascending,
  4. p. 408, line 26[…] the exhausting, sweating summers, marches, battles, carnage—those trenches hurriedly heap'd by the corpse-thousands, mainly unknown—Will the America […]
  5. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches

trestles 2

  1. p. 68, line 18Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death.
  2. p. 222, line 23Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses,

trial 8

  1. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  2. p. 98, line 3Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
  3. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  4. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
  5. p. 298, line 17YOU felons on trial in courts,
  6. p. 298, line 19Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
  7. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
  8. p. 410, line 5I chant my nation's crucial stage, (America's, haply humanity's)—the trial great, the victory great,

trials 4

  1. p. 350, line 25(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
  2. p. 397, line 19Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all—in that alone,
  3. p. 420, line 11Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,

tribes 8

  1. p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,
  2. p. 118, line 19You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
  3. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  4. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  5. p. 207, line 6Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean-depths, breathing that thick-breathing air, as so many do,
  6. p. 267, line 8Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
  7. p. 288, line 17What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes and nomads,
  8. p. 289, line 5Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,

trick 3

  1. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
  2. p. 354, line 10Well, you cannot trick me.
  3. p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,

trickle 2

  1. p. 104, line 19TRICKLE drops! my blue veins leaving!
  2. p. 104, line 20O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,

trickling 3

  1. p. 49, line 16Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
  2. p. 64, line 22That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  3. p. 377, line 14And you mountain sides, and the woods where my dear children's blood trickling redden'd,

tried 8

  1. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  2. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  3. p. 128, line 27It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
  4. p. 160, line 31Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited.
  5. p. 273, line 9Read these leaves to myself in the open air, tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
  6. p. 391, line 5By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,
  7. p. 409, line 8Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,

tries 1

  1. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?

trifle 1

  1. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.

trill 2

  1. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  2. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,

trilling 1

  1. p. 99, line 11For you, for you I am trilling these songs.

trillions 5

  1. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
  2. p. 71, line 8There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  3. p. 421, line 23Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting,

trills 4

  1. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  2. p. 262, line 30Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
  3. p. 309, line 6From these your future song may rise with joyous trills,
  4. p. 359, line 20Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd,

trim 1

  1. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,

trimm'd 1 today: trimmed

  1. p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,

trimmed see trimm'd

trimmings 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,

trims 1

  1. p. 69, line 24Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,

trinitas 1

  1. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,

trinity 3

  1. p. 208, line 25Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,
  2. p. 209, line 5That savage trinity warily watching.
  3. p. 255, line 10Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,

trio 4

  1. p. 185, line 10We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,
  2. p. 200, line 24The colloquy there, the trio, each uttering,
  3. p. 295, line 15In one a trio beautiful,
  4. p. 370, line 16A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste;

trios 1

  1. p. 309, line 16Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish,

trip 2

  1. p. 262, line 21O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
  2. p. 263, line 10From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;

trip-hammers 1

  1. p. 56, line 14Where trip-hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders,

Tripoli 1

  1. p. 117, line 22I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,

trippers 1

  1. p. 31, line 21Trippers and askers surround me,

triumph 7

  1. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  2. p. 364, line 9Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come forth,
  3. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,
  4. p. 374, line 21Corroborating forever the triumph of things.
  5. p. 376, line 4Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.
  6. p. 411, line 14Now triumph! transformation! jubilate! *
  7. p. 429, line 38[…] land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]

triumphal 2

  1. p. 189, line 7O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
  2. p. 367, line 10(I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,)

triumphant 10

  1. p. 241, line 12Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
  2. p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
  3. p. 341, line 11Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant only, continues onward.
  4. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  5. p. 345, line 23Is only matter triumphant?
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  1. p. 348, line 21Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant;
  2. p. 380, line 26I announce justice triumphant,
  3. p. 382, line 25I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.
  4. p. 410, line 7Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—here at the west a voice triumphant—justifying all,
  5. p. 426, line 20[…] the volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction […]

triumphantly 3

  1. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  2. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,

triumphs 8

  1. p. 163, line 9These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic's delicate cable,
  2. p. 234, line 25As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
  3. p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
  4. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  5. p. 287, line 21The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs,
  6. p. 342, line 17Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains?
  7. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,

triune 2

  1. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  2. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,

trivial 1

  1. p. 48, line 22Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,

trod 5

  1. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  2. p. 234, line 23And is this the ground Washington trod?
  3. p. 254, line 19TO the leaven'd soil they trod calling I sing for the last,
  4. p. 296, line 6By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco,
  5. p. 403, line 11Or "Beat! Beat! Drums!" or "To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod,"

trodden 1

  1. p. 122, line 5You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!

trombone 1

  1. p. 312, line 34The trombone duo, Libertad forever!

troop 2

  1. p. 65, line 5I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average unending procession,
  2. p. 99, line 21Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me,

trooping 4

  1. p. 163, line 25For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands;
  2. p. 195, line 6Trooping up, crowding from all directions, from the Altay mountains,
  3. p. 276, line 2While the winds fann'd me and the waves came trooping toward me,
  4. p. 310, line 24Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless,

troops 5

  1. p. 159, line 10The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the sunrise,
  2. p. 210, line 1How bright shine the cutlasses of the foremost troops!
  3. p. 231, line 27The troops are but drilling, they are yet surrounded with smiles,
  4. p. 381, line 25To troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
  5. p. 392, line 5Thy troops of white-maned racers racing to the goal,

trot 1

  1. p. 334, line 13Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,

trots 1

  1. p. 40, line 19The canal boy trots on the tow-path, the book-keeper counts at his desk, the shoemaker waxes his thread,

trottoirs 3

  1. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  2. p. 298, line 21You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms,
  3. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,

troubadour 1

  1. p. 192, line 3With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,

troubadours 3

  1. p. 311, line 15I hear the minstrels, gleemen, troubadours, of the middle ages.
  2. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,
  3. p. 415, line 4The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds,

trouble 3

  1. p. 45, line 3I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
  2. p. 123, line 10Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
  3. p. 257, line 22As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,

troubled 1

  1. p. 200, line 6O troubled reflection in the sea!

troubles 3

  1. p. 186, line 11Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
  2. p. 210, line 10What troubles you Yankee phantoms? what is all this chattering of bare gums?
  3. p. 415, line 17(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,

troubling 1

  1. p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,

trough 1

  1. p. 156, line 14The shape of the little trough, the shape of the rockers beneath, the shape of the babe's cradle,

troughs 1

  1. p. 139, line 17Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,

trousers see trowsers

trout 1

  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,

trowel 1

  1. p. 220, line 5The mechanics arming, (the trowel, the jack-plane, the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation,)

trowel-handle 1

  1. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,

trowels 2

  1. p. 150, line 16The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
  2. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,

trowser-ends 1

  1. p. 36, line 9I tuck'd my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;

trowsers 1 today: trousers

  1. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,

Troy 1

  1. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,

truant 1

  1. p. 327, line 2My truant lover has come, and it is dark.

truce 2

  1. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  2. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches

truckling 1

  1. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,

true 52

  1. p. 13, line 20The true realities, eidólons.
  2. p. 24, line 15I will make the true poem of riches,
  3. p. 27, line 4Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
  4. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  5. p. 73, line 14The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
45 more lines
  1. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  2. p. 80, line 5Singing the true song of the soul fitful at random,
  3. p. 116, line 6This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there,
  4. p. 137, line 12All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
  5. p. 137, line 13The words of true poems do not merely please,
  6. p. 137, line 14The true poets are not followers of beauty but the august masters of beauty;
  7. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  8. p. 137, line 21The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
  9. 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,)
  10. p. 169, line 10Clearing the ground for broad humanity, the true America, heir of the past so grand,
  11. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  12. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  13. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
  14. p. 186, line 12Your true soul and body appear before me,
  15. p. 192, line 20I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part.
  16. p. 192, line 25I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,
  17. p. 229, line 20How the true thunder bellows after the lightning—how bright the flashes of lightning!
  18. p. 230, line 9I have witness'd the true lightning, I have witness'd my cities electric,
  19. p. 240, line 22Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
  20. p. 241, line 3Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
  21. p. 266, line 1Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound, initiates the true use of precedents,
  22. p. 281, line 5I see the true arenas of my race, or first or last,
  23. p. 291, line 10Whatever satisfies souls is true;
  24. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  25. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  26. p. 318, line 30The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
  27. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  28. p. 319, line 9The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.
  29. p. 321, line 23Thou mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving,
  30. p. 343, line 10WHAT ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
  31. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  32. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  33. p. 364, line 19Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
  34. p. 384, line 47[…] Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming […]
  35. p. 388, line 10Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.
  36. p. 393, line 25Stands or is rising thy true monument.
  37. p. 397, line 20True conquerors o'er all the rest.
  38. p. 402, line 14Thy true condolence breathest, sendest out o'er many a salt sea mile,
  39. p. 415, line 21The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
  40. p. 420, line 5(Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true,
  41. p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
  42. p. 425, line 4[…] of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes […]
  43. p. 427, line 43[…] been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to […]
  44. p. 431, line 34[…] much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures […]
  45. p. 433, line 36[…] have shown it or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present both the Past and […]

truer 2

  1. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  2. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)

truest 2

  1. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  2. p. 409, line 5But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)

truly 5

  1. p. 85, line 20For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.
  2. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  3. p. 263, line 23Sing of the love we bore him—because you, dweller in camps, know it truly.
  4. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
  5. p. 438, line 12[…] the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal record […]

trumpet 2

  1. p. 186, line 5Till with sound of trumpet,
  2. p. 223, line 25Crying with trumpet voice, Arouse and beware! Beware and arouse!)