Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “who”

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  1. p. 11, line 4YOU who celebrate bygones,
  2. p. 11, line 5Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,
  3. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  4. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  5. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  6. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  7. p. 21, line 30And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
  8. p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
  9. p. 24, line 11For those who belong here and those to come,
  10. p. 35, line 15What groans of over-fed or half-starv'd who fall sunstruck or in fits,
  11. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  12. p. 37, line 16The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  13. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  14. p. 40, line 2The machinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate-keeper marks who pass,
  15. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
  16. p. 43, line 13Vivas to those who have fail'd!
  17. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  18. p. 44, line 8Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude;
  19. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  20. p. 65, line 11The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
  21. p. 66, line 10I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me,
  22. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  23. p. 69, line 1I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
  24. p. 70, line 17Each who passes is consider'd, each who stops is consider'd, not a single one can it fail.
  25. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  26. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  27. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  28. p. 74, line 22He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  29. p. 75, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
  30. 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.
  31. p. 76, line 16For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
  32. p. 76, line 19Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  33. p. 78, line 13Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
  34. p. 78, line 14Who wishes to walk with me?
  35. p. 79, line 1You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
  36. p. 81, line 20Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
  37. p. 81, line 21And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
  38. p. 83, line 5They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
  39. p. 85, line 4No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers' gang?
  40. p. 86, line 5This is not only one man, this the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
  41. p. 86, line 8How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
  42. p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
  43. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
  44. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
  45. p. 94, line 5I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men,
  46. p. 94, line 14Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain'd me for love of me,
  47. p. 94, line 16I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,
  48. p. 96, line 7I proceed for all who are or have been young men,
  49. p. 97, line 24Who is he that would become my follower?
  50. p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
  51. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  52. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  53. p. 99, line 14And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
  54. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  55. p. 102, line 14Who often walk'd lonesome walks thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
  56. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  57. p. 102, line 16Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he lov'd might secretly be indifferent to him,
  58. 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.
  59. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  60. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  61. p. 112, line 14Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
  62. p. 112, line 15Who are the girls? who are the married women?
  63. p. 112, line 16Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other's necks?
  64. 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.
  65. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
  66. p. 121, line 8I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
  67. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  68. p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
  69. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  70. p. 126, line 11You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
  71. p. 131, line 11Others the same—others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,
  72. p. 132, line 3Nor is it you alone who know what it is to be evil,
  73. p. 132, line 4I am he who knew what it was to be evil,
  74. p. 132, line 23Who was to know what should come home to me?
  75. p. 132, line 24Who knows but I am enjoying this?
  76. p. 132, line 25Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
  77. p. 133, line 18Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;
  78. p. 133, line 19Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
  79. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  80. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  81. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;
  82. p. 154, line 8Served those who time out of mind made on the granite walls rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean waves,
  83. p. 154, line 25I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
  84. p. 166, line 29We who have grandly fill'd our time;
  85. p. 170, line 18I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns.
  86. p. 172, line 18It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life,
  87. p. 172, line 21The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him,
  88. p. 178, line 4Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them,
  89. p. 179, line 7I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  90. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  91. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  92. p. 179, line 18Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.
  93. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  94. p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
  95. p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
  96. 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,
  97. p. 189, line 24(Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
  98. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
  99. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  100. p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
  101. p. 199, line 2Surely you must know who is here, is here,
  102. p. 199, line 3You must know who I am, my love.
  103. p. 202, line 27Aware now that amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me I have not once had the least idea who or what I am,
  104. p. 204, line 18O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?
  105. p. 204, line 26THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
  106. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  107. p. 207, line 8The change onward from ours to that of beings who walk other spheres.
  108. p. 213, line 1HOLD it up sternly—see this it sends back, (who is it? is it you?)
  109. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  110. p. 215, line 20I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest,
  111. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  112. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  113. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
  114. p. 233, line 5Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
  115. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  116. p. 240, line 10Who are you my dear comrade?
  117. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  118. p. 240, line 12Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
  119. p. 244, line 8(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
  120. p. 247, line 3Those who love each other shall become invincible,
  121. p. 249, line 5WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human,
  122. p. 265, line 8I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,
  123. p. 265, line 10I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,
  124. p. 265, line 11Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
  125. p. 265, line 12Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
  126. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
  127. p. 267, line 17Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships, the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
  128. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
  129. p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
  130. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  131. p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
  132. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  133. 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?
  134. p. 272, line 14He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run,
  135. p. 272, line 17He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.
  136. p. 273, line 21It is not the earth, it is not America who is so great,
  137. p. 273, line 22It is I who am great or to be great, it is You up there, or any one,
  138. p. 275, line 4I am for those who walk abreast with the whole earth,
  139. p. 275, line 5Who inaugurate one to inaugurate all.
  140. p. 277, line 20Out of the depths the storm's abysmic waves, who knows whence?
  141. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  142. p. 288, line 22Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and undevelop'd,
  143. p. 290, line 12Who has been wise receives interest,
  144. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  145. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  146. p. 291, line 23Knows that only that person has really learn'd who has learn'd to prefer results,
  147. p. 291, line 24Who favors body and soul the same,
  148. p. 291, line 25Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
  149. p. 291, line 26Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries nor avoids death.
  150. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
  151. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  152. p. 298, line 19Who am I too that I am not on trial or in prison?
  153. p. 298, line 22Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
  154. p. 301, line 1WHY, who makes much of a miracle?
  155. p. 303, line 13WHO includes diversity and is Nature,
  156. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  157. p. 303, line 15Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
  158. p. 303, line 16Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
  159. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
  160. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
  161. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  162. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  163. p. 304, line 2Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
  164. p. 304, line 8WHO learns my lesson complete?
  165. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  166. p. 309, line 5Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you?
  167. p. 318, line 18Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
  168. p. 318, line 19Who justify these restless explorations?
  169. p. 318, line 20Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
  170. p. 318, line 21Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
  171. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  172. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  173. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  174. p. 336, line 8He is one of those who are beautiful and happy, he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  175. p. 342, line 1I NEED no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
  176. p. 348, line 4(Recast, may-be discard them, end them—may-be their work is done, who knows?)
  177. p. 351, line 23The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
  178. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  179. p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
  180. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  181. p. 363, line 17And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious,
  182. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  183. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
  184. 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,
  185. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  186. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  187. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  188. 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,
  189. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
  190. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.
  191. p. 368, line 12Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
  192. p. 382, line 8Who touches this touches a man,
  193. p. 382, line 10It is I you hold and who holds you,
  194. p. 382, line 20I feel like one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
  195. p. 386, line 10Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight;
  196. p. 393, line 7Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
  197. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  198. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  199. 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?
  200. p. 402, line 8But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some summer—bursting forth,
  201. p. 421, line 10(Who knows? the best yet unexpress'd and lacking.)
  202. p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
  203. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in […]
  204. p. 438, line 4[…] the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any […]
  205. p. 438, line 16[…] claims. No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt […]