The lines with “while”
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- p. 15, line 17We dwell a while in every city and town,
- p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
- p. 20, line 25Regarding it all intently a long while, then dismissing it,
- p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
- p. 29, line 16Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
- p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
- p. 39, line 28He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;
- p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
- p. 52, line 25Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
- p. 55, line 17What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
- p. 58, line 11Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
- p. 58, line 26I anchor my ship for a little while only,
- 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;
- p. 74, line 11Sit a while dear son,
- p. 75, line 10I do not say these things for a dollar or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat,
- p. 78, line 7Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
- 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,
- p. 98, line 20Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
- p. 100, line 26Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
- p. 101, line 11When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
- p. 102, line 18Who oft as he saunter'd the streets curv'd with his arm the shoulder of his friend, while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
- p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
- p. 108, line 12Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,
- p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
- p. 110, line 7While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
- p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
- p. 125, line 13However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
- p. 139, line 6Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,
- p. 147, line 18O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
- p. 158, line 7While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
- p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
- p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
- p. 165, line 17While we rehearse our measureless wealth, it is for thee, dear Mother,
- p. 177, line 29Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
- p. 185, line 18All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
- p. 196, line 10Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
- p. 197, line 24While we bask, we two together.
- p. 197, line 30While we two keep together.
- p. 203, line 19Breathe to me while I hold you close the secret of the murmuring I envy.
- p. 206, line 1While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
- p. 224, line 4And what does it say to me all the while?
- p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
- p. 228, line 6While others remain busy or smartly talking, forever teaching thrift, thrift;)
- p. 231, line 20Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means,
- p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
- p. 234, line 6While scornfully laugh'd many an arrogant lord off against us encamp'd,
- p. 234, line 10Silent as a ghost while they thought they were sure of him, my General retreated.
- p. 235, line 4Rank after rank falls, while over them silently droops the flag,
- p. 235, line 14Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
- p. 236, line 14While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
- p. 237, line 22While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
- p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
- p. 242, line 16With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there,
- p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.
- p. 244, line 22While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
- p. 248, line 3WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
- p. 248, line 21While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
- p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
- p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
- p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;
- p. 257, line 17As you droop'd from the sky low down as if to my side, (while the other stars all look'd on,)
- p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
- p. 261, line 15While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,
- p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
- p. 266, line 4Perceives that it waits a little while in the door, that it was fittest for its days,
- p. 275, line 10(Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast,
- p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
- p. 276, line 2While the winds fann'd me and the waves came trooping toward me,
- p. 284, line 20Even while you wept there by your fallen harp by the grave,
- p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,
- p. 293, line 9While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
- p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,
- p. 295, line 1While through the interior vistas,
- p. 300, line 4I WAS looking a long while for Intentions,
- p. 309, line 20While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
- p. 311, line 17Tremulous, while underneath, (as the hid footholds of the earth,
- p. 328, line 8He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out,
- p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
- p. 344, line 3O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;
- p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
- p. 345, line 14AS I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
- p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
- p. 351, line 7While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing,
- p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
- p. 356, line 19While at thy liquid prelude, glad, serene,
- p. 370, line 5Perhaps soon some day or night while I am singing my voice will suddenly cease.
- p. 372, line 15Follow me ever—desert me not while I live.
- p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
- p. 377, line 9As she call'd to her earth with mournful voice while she stalk'd,
- p. 380, line 23While my pleasure is yet at the full I whisper So long!
- p. 381, line 20Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,
- p. 382, line 21I receive now again of my many translations, from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await me,
- p. 384, line 56[…] Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here, 399 While Not the Past Forgetting, 399 The Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A […]
- p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
- p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,
- p. 399, line 21While not the past forgetting,
- p. 401, line 4While he the globe was circling round and round,—and now returns:
- p. 407, line 17[…] certainly I have nothing fresh to write)—I while away the hours of my 72d year—hours of forced […]
- p. 407, line 29[…] as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for my eyes plainly warn me […]
- p. 408, line 2[…] anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is […]
- p. 411, line 7No, while memories subtly play—the past vivid as ever;
- p. 428, line 26[…] question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently […]
- p. 430, line 15[…] well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in such æsthetic presentation of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c […]
- p. 435, line 22[…] stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought of my song is to help the […]
- p. 437, line 13While I can not understand it or argue it out, I […]
- p. 438, line 1[…] After looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening to the criticisms of his suite of students […]