Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 17, line 20For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring,
  2. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  3. p. 31, line 20Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
  4. p. 37, line 6Which of the young men does she like the best?
  5. p. 43, line 10I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
  6. p. 48, line 15By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
  7. p. 50, line 23Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)
  8. p. 59, line 6We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged,
  9. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  10. p. 79, line 19From that of myself without which I were nothing,
  11. p. 95, line 21Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,
  12. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  13. 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,
  14. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
  15. p. 120, line 18All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself.
  16. p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
  17. p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
  18. p. 127, line 1Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
  19. p. 133, line 2What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
  20. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  21. p. 134, line 5Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual,
  22. p. 134, line 6Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
  23. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  24. p. 146, line 13Proved to me this day beyond cavil that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
  25. p. 146, line 14Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
  26. p. 147, line 29How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
  27. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  28. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
  29. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  30. p. 171, line 20And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  31. p. 179, line 13I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love,
  32. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
  33. p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
  34. p. 198, line 13He pour'd forth the meanings which I of all men know.
  35. p. 201, line 25Which I do not forget,
  36. p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
  37. p. 202, line 7Held by this electric self out of the pride of which I utter poems,
  38. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  39. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  40. p. 224, line 18Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes,
  41. p. 224, line 20But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,
  42. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,
  43. p. 224, line 22Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings,
  44. p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
  45. p. 232, line 13But a battle which I took part in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it,
  46. p. 238, line 3One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget,
  47. p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
  48. p. 253, line 20You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
  49. p. 264, line 10I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
  50. p. 268, line 24But damn that which spends itself with no thought of the stain, pains, dismay, feebleness, it is bequeathing.)
  51. 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.
  52. p. 273, line 11Claim'd nothing to myself which I have not carefully claim'd for others on the same terms,
  53. p. 273, line 28The only government is that which makes minute of individuals,
  54. p. 274, line 25Not to build for that which builds for mankind,
  55. p. 276, line 21LET that which stood in front go behind,
  56. p. 276, line 22Let that which was behind advance to the front,
  57. p. 283, line 21Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
  58. p. 286, line 21That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea which is so amorous after me,
  59. p. 291, line 5These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
  60. p. 291, line 13The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
  61. p. 291, line 15That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
  62. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
  63. p. 298, line 3Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering forever ready in all words.
  64. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
  65. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  66. p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
  67. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  68. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  69. p. 350, line 1Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest material civilization must remain in vain,)
  70. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  71. p. 362, line 10THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,
  72. p. 362, line 14Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss,
  73. p. 362, line 17Which poets vainly seek to put in rhyme, historians in prose,
  74. p. 362, line 18Which sculptor never chisel'd yet, nor painter painted,
  75. p. 362, line 19Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd,
  76. p. 367, line 12After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color,
  77. p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
  78. p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
  79. p. 397, line 13(O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return.
  80. p. 399, line 2Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
  81. p. 407, line 28[…] and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put in fair […]
  82. p. 408, line 30[…] all?—those hecatombs of battle-deaths—Those times of which, O far-off reader, this whole book is indeed finally but […]
  83. p. 409, line 30[…] last words are not samples of the best, which involve vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control […]
  84. p. 416, line 21Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
  85. p. 418, line 26In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.
  86. p. 427, line 18[…] challenge and made an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more […]
  87. p. 427, line 21[…] as a poem, I abandon'd the conventional themes, which do not appear in it: none of the stock ornamentation […]
  88. p. 427, line 42[…] begins to exist—nay, is already form'd—to which the poetic genius must emigrate. Whatever may have been the […]
  89. p. 428, line 2[…] with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only […]
  90. p. 428, line 4[…] to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the poet or other artist alone can give—reality would […]
  91. p. 428, line 7Few appreciate the moral revolutions, our age, which have been profounder far than the material or inventive or […]
  92. p. 429, line 8[…] the most important bases of them, and without which they could have had no reason for being, so "Leaves […]
  93. p. 429, line 17[…] incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty […]
  94. p. 430, line 14[…] fine thoughts, or incidents, or courtesies—all of which has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be […]
  95. p. 431, line 25[…] Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of him,) belongs […]
  96. p. 432, line 11[…] dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the poems […]
  97. p. 432, line 13[…] and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of all, and object […]
  98. p. 433, line 16[…] much else look'd over Edgar Poe's poems—of which I was not an admirer, tho' I always saw that […]
  99. p. 433, line 31[…] whence the answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far a distance, must […]
  100. p. 433, line 33[…] be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should […]
  101. p. 434, line 16[…] intention also of indicating or hinting some point-characteristics which I since see (though I did not then, at least […]
  102. p. 434, line 31[…] of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what […]
  103. p. 435, line 43[…] last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born […]
  104. p. 436, line 28[…] lines I allude to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the […]
  105. p. 436, line 36[…] suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which only a genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built […]
  106. p. 437, line 6[…] to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I felt it all […]
  107. p. 438, line 6[…] or ever painted anything but this one picture, which is a personal affair—a piece out of a man's […]