Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  2. p. 16, line 9Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,
  3. p. 18, line 3But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
  4. p. 20, line 24Think nothing can ever be greater, nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves,
  5. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  6. p. 22, line 27Any more than such are to religion.
  7. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  8. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  9. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  10. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  11. p. 26, line 20I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another!
  12. p. 30, line 20There was never any more inception than there is now,
  13. p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
  14. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  15. p. 30, line 23Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  16. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  17. p. 33, line 4How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
  18. p. 33, line 21Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
  19. p. 38, line 12It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
  20. p. 42, line 22I resist any thing better than my own diversity,
  21. p. 44, line 5Do I astonish more than they?
  22. p. 44, line 19I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
  23. p. 45, line 5(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.)
  24. p. 45, line 20And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  25. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  26. p. 47, line 9There is no better than it and now.
  27. p. 48, line 8No more modest than immodest.
  28. p. 48, line 29Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
  29. p. 49, line 4The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
  30. p. 49, line 5This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
  31. 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,
  32. p. 49, line 28A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  33. p. 51, line 23The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
  34. p. 53, line 14(What is less or more than a touch?)
  35. p. 53, line 25I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars,
  36. p. 55, line 14Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
  37. p. 59, line 9The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  38. p. 63, line 11His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
  39. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  40. p. 67, line 27Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
  41. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  42. p. 74, line 21He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
  43. p. 75, line 1Wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
  44. p. 75, line 3Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
  45. p. 75, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  46. p. 76, line 6I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  47. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  48. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  49. p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  50. p. 76, line 20Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
  51. p. 77, line 26Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
  52. p. 80, line 1O for you whoever you are your correlative body! O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
  53. p. 80, line 21Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea not more lawless than we;)
  54. 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,
  55. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  56. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.
  57. p. 88, line 20They are not one jot less than I am,
  58. p. 89, line 8I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
  59. p. 91, line 15O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
  60. p. 94, line 12I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
  61. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
  62. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  63. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
  64. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  65. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  66. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
  67. p. 104, line 13Not these, O none of these more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love,
  68. p. 104, line 14O none more than I hurrying in and out;
  69. p. 104, line 17Any more than my soul is borne through the open air,
  70. p. 106, line 4(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
  71. p. 108, line 6No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
  72. p. 108, line 17And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
  73. p. 109, line 21Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest,
  74. p. 111, line 2O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
  75. p. 111, line 9Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,
  76. p. 122, line 16You express me better than I can express myself,
  77. p. 122, line 17You shall be more to me than my poem.
  78. p. 123, line 3I am larger, better than I thought,
  79. 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.)
  80. p. 125, line 9I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
  81. p. 129, line 6I give you my love more precious than money,
  82. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  83. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  84. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
  85. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
  86. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  87. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
  88. p. 135, line 19His welcome is universal, the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
  89. p. 137, line 21The words of the true poems give you more than poems,
  90. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  91. 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;
  92. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  93. p. 146, line 1I am more than eighty years of age, I am the most venerable mother,
  94. p. 146, line 3What attractions are these beyond any before? what bloom more than the bloom of youth?
  95. p. 147, line 28O to attract by more than attraction!
  96. p. 151, line 30And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
  97. p. 154, line 1Than this nothing has better served, it has served all,
  98. p. 154, line 3Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
  99. p. 157, line 9She less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever,
  100. p. 157, line 17She too is a law of Nature—there is no law stronger than she is.
  101. p. 158, line 5To obey as well as command, to follow more than to lead,
  102. p. 160, line 12Mightier than Egypt's tombs,
  103. p. 160, line 13Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
  104. p. 160, line 14Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
  105. p. 160, line 15More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,
  106. p. 160, line 22Around a palace, loftier, fairer, ampler than any yet,
  107. p. 161, line 25In your vast state vaster than all the old,
  108. p. 165, line 1In other scenes than these have I observ'd thee flag,
  109. p. 169, line 1But more in you than these, lands of the Western shore,
  110. p. 169, line 6In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial,
  111. p. 169, line 7In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air.
  112. p. 169, line 22I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my own whoever enjoys me,
  113. p. 170, line 10Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
  114. p. 170, line 11Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
  115. p. 170, line 21The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  116. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  117. p. 172, line 19Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
  118. p. 173, line 11It is nearer and farther than they.
  119. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  120. p. 175, line 8But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
  121. p. 176, line 6No, the real words are more delicious than they.
  122. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  123. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  124. p. 178, line 25For none more than you is immortality.
  125. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  126. p. 179, line 19I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
  127. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  128. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  129. p. 187, line 21I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
  130. p. 188, line 8A harsh discordant natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother's heart closer than any yet.
  131. p. 192, line 27And that they could no-how have been better than they were,
  132. p. 192, line 29And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
  133. p. 195, line 16I chant the new empire grander than any before, as in a vision it comes to me,
  134. p. 197, line 4From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
  135. p. 198, line 16For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding,
  136. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  137. p. 206, line 24Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
  138. p. 206, line 26Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter,
  139. p. 206, line 27Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
  140. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  141. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  142. p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
  143. p. 217, line 9The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.
  144. p. 219, line 12O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis! O truer than steel!)
  145. p. 229, line 11Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,
  146. p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
  147. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  148. p. 241, line 7More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,
  149. p. 247, line 11More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.
  150. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  151. p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
  152. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  153. p. 251, line 20I am more resolute because all have denied me than I could ever have been had all accepted me,
  154. p. 254, line 17To where the future, greater than all the past,
  155. p. 264, line 26There can be any number of supremes—one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another, or one life countervails another.
  156. p. 265, line 15O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
  157. p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
  158. p. 275, line 14I will know if I am to be less than they,
  159. p. 275, line 17I will see if I am to be less generous than they,
  160. p. 283, line 12They gave this child more of themselves than that,
  161. p. 285, line 6That immortal house more than all the rows of dwellings ever built!
  162. p. 285, line 8That little house alone more than them all—poor, desperate house!
  163. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  164. p. 289, line 14I believe that was not the end of those nations or any person of them, any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
  165. p. 291, line 9Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
  166. p. 296, line 18This subtler astronomic orb than sun or moon, than Jupiter, Venus, Mars,
  167. p. 298, line 22Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
  168. p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
  169. p. 300, line 7It is no more in the legends than in all else,
  170. p. 307, line 6In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever,
  171. p. 309, line 13Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,
  172. p. 316, line 11O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun!
  173. p. 321, line 11Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,
  174. p. 322, line 4Greater than stars or suns,
  175. p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
  176. p. 322, line 16Passage to more than India!
  177. p. 322, line 25Passage to more than India!
  178. p. 324, line 9The potent, felt, interior command, stronger than words,
  179. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  180. p. 330, line 26I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,
  181. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  182. p. 334, line 4I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.)
  183. p. 336, line 20But there is more account than that, there is strict account of all.
  184. p. 340, line 12Beyond the light, lighter than light,
  185. p. 341, line 1And fuller, O vastly fuller of the dead than of the living;
  186. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  187. p. 344, line 13I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
  188. p. 345, line 9Or waiting to arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth,
  189. p. 345, line 10I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
  190. p. 347, line 25Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou transcendental Union!
  191. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  192. p. 353, line 22This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
  193. p. 355, line 27She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  194. p. 358, line 12Vouchsafe a higher strain than any yet,
  195. p. 358, line 17A vigor more than earth's is in thy notes,
  196. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  197. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  198. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  199. p. 364, line 21Of the shining sun by them—of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
  200. p. 371, line 15The unperform'd, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
  201. p. 374, line 4Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet,
  202. p. 381, line 14I foresee too much, it means more than I thought,
  203. p. 382, line 22An unknown sphere more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So long!
  204. p. 387, line 7Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses,
  205. p. 387, line 8More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander,
  206. p. 391, line 21Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,
  207. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  208. p. 400, line 4I heard it in my boyhood;)—More than a generation since,
  209. p. 401, line 13A lesser proof than old Voltaire's, yet greater,
  210. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  211. p. 411, line 43[…] even with all their horrors. I had more than once the same experience on the fields cover'd with fallen […]
  212. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  213. p. 415, line 22(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)
  214. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;
  215. p. 421, line 18More multiform far—more lasting thou than they.
  216. p. 425, line 14[…] of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd […]
  217. p. 425, line 32[…] of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse than a failure—that public criticism on the book and myself […]
  218. p. 425, line 34[…] it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line of enemies to […]
  219. p. 426, line 4[…] special official buffetings—is all probably no more than I ought to have expected. I had my choice when […]
  220. p. 426, line 15[…] O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am. Behind all else that can be said, I […]
  221. p. 426, line 21[…] of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider […]
  222. p. 426, line 23[…] have positively gain'd a hearing, to far more than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings […]
  223. p. 427, line 2[…] in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  224. p. 427, line 11[…] sung—beautiful, matchless songs—adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would […]
  225. p. 428, line 8[…] revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far than the material or inventive or war-produced ones. The Nineteenth Century […]
  226. p. 429, line 3[…] something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements of modern song […]
  227. p. 429, line 36[…] been fashion'd or completed, from any other era than the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other […]
  228. p. 429, line 37[…] of the Nineteenth Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National […]
  229. p. 430, line 18[…] want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess from the bequests of the past, it […]
  230. p. 432, line 6[…] as much as through anything else—perhaps more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is […]
  231. p. 432, line 18Continuing the subject, my friends have more than once suggested—or may be the garrulity of advancing age […]
  232. p. 433, line 2[…] and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any library or indoor room—it makes such difference […]
  233. p. 434, line 11[…] lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four […]
  234. p. 434, line 27[…] and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and Hope […]
  235. p. 435, line 36[…] are surely preparing the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just […]
  236. p. 435, line 45[…] prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the democratic averages of America […]
  237. p. 436, line 3[…] the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of old were. I will also want my […]