Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “when”

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  1. p. 14, line 18WHEN I read the book, the biography famous,
  2. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  3. p. 54, line 9But call any thing back again when I desire it.
  4. p. 55, line 13Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
  5. p. 55, line 16What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
  6. p. 58, line 7Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
  7. p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  8. p. 66, line 4When I give I give myself.
  9. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  10. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  11. 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?
  12. p. 76, line 1My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
  13. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  14. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  15. p. 87, line 28The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,
  16. 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,
  17. p. 94, line 1NATIVE moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now,
  18. p. 94, line 24Heard the pulse of you when all was still ringing little bells last night under my ear.
  19. p. 98, line 14Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
  20. p. 100, line 23Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,
  21. p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
  22. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  23. p. 102, line 19WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd,
  24. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  25. p. 103, line 1But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,
  26. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  27. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
  28. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  29. 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,
  30. p. 106, line 16I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
  31. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  32. p. 107, line 20But when I hear of the brotherhood of lovers, how it was with them,
  33. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  34. p. 112, line 3When you read these I that was visible am become invisible,
  35. 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.
  36. p. 119, line 15And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
  37. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  38. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  39. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  40. p. 141, line 5The departing ships when the sailors heave at the capstan;
  41. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  42. p. 153, line 17When he or she appears materials are overaw'd,
  43. p. 173, line 7All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
  44. p. 173, line 9All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments,
  45. p. 175, line 17When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
  46. p. 175, line 18When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
  47. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  48. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  49. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  50. p. 175, line 22When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
  51. p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
  52. p. 179, line 21When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot,
  53. p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
  54. 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;)
  55. p. 193, line 16When million-footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements,
  56. p. 193, line 17When the thunder-cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love,
  57. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  58. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  59. p. 193, line 20When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors,
  60. p. 193, line 21When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak,
  61. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,
  62. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
  63. p. 194, line 2When the façades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
  64. p. 194, line 3When the guests from the islands advance, when the pageant moves forward visible,
  65. p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
  66. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  67. p. 198, line 8Yes, when the stars glisten'd,
  68. p. 214, line 13WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer,
  69. p. 214, line 14When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
  70. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  71. p. 214, line 16When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
  72. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,
  73. p. 217, line 17Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
  74. p. 230, line 23When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
  75. p. 232, line 6When I clutch'd your hand it was not with terror,
  76. p. 234, line 17But when my General pass'd me,
  77. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  78. p. 240, line 20The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
  79. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  80. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,
  81. p. 255, line 7WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,
  82. p. 260, line 25I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
  83. p. 260, line 27When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead,
  84. p. 267, line 19The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their fierceness when wrong'd,
  85. p. 279, line 9When late I sang sad was my voice,
  86. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  87. p. 286, line 28That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
  88. p. 287, line 26The young men droop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet;
  89. p. 288, line 1When liberty goes out of a place it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
  90. p. 288, line 3When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs,
  91. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  92. p. 288, line 13So it is—but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great,
  93. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  94. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  95. p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
  96. p. 307, line 23What yearning expression! how uneasy they are when he moves away from them;
  97. p. 322, line 11Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev'd,
  98. p. 326, line 25And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  99. p. 329, line 4The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  100. p. 329, line 10Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead.
  101. p. 338, line 10Till when the ties loosen,
  102. p. 342, line 18When shows break up what but One's-Self is sure?
  103. p. 377, line 24When as order'd forward, after a long march,
  104. p. 380, line 14When America does what was promis'd,
  105. p. 380, line 15When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,
  106. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  107. p. 380, line 17When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
  108. p. 382, line 2The best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
  109. p. 395, line 12"She's free—she's on her destination "—these the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead,
  110. p. 406, line 26[…] Greeting, 415. Sounds of the Winter, 415. A Twilight Song, 416. When the Full-grown Poet Came, 416. Osceola, 417. A Voice from Death, 417. A […]
  111. p. 409, line 17Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,
  112. p. 411, line 40[…] always easier; medicines seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
  113. p. 416, line 16WHEN the full-grown poet came,
  114. p. 417, line 1WHEN his hour for death had come,
  115. p. 426, line 5[…] ought to have expected. I had my choice when I commenc'd. I bid neither for soft eulogies, big money […]
  116. p. 430, line 26[…] put it specifically, has not the time arrived when, (if it must be plainly said, for democratic America's sake […]
  117. p. 437, line 25[…] and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up […]
  118. p. 438, line 34[…] items for the imaginative genius of the West, when it worthily rises—First, what Herder taught to the young […]