Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “women”

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  1. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  2. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  3. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  4. p. 34, line 3And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  5. p. 34, line 19For me those that have been boys and that love women,
  6. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  7. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  8. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  9. p. 59, line 22How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the side of their prepared graves,
  10. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  11. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  12. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
  13. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
  14. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  15. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  16. p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
  17. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  18. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  19. p. 88, line 16Now I will dismiss myself from impassive women,
  20. 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,
  21. p. 88, line 19I see that they are worthy of me, I will be the robust husband of those women.
  22. p. 89, line 1I draw you close to me, you women,
  23. p. 89, line 6It is I, you women, I make my way,
  24. p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
  25. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  26. p. 111, line 7AMONG the men and women the multitude,
  27. p. 112, line 15Who are the girls? who are the married women?
  28. p. 118, line 10The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
  29. p. 119, line 4You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
  30. p. 121, line 10I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
  31. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  32. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  33. p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
  34. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  35. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
  36. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
  37. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  38. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  39. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
  40. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  41. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  42. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  43. p. 135, line 1Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
  44. p. 140, line 8Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
  45. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  46. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  47. p. 152, line 22Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
  48. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  49. p. 153, line 6Where women walk in public processions in the streets the same as the men,
  50. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  51. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  52. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  53. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  54. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  55. p. 178, line 5From the countenances of children or women or the manly countenance,
  56. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  57. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  58. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  59. p. 211, line 6Look, all orderly citizens—look from the windows, women!
  60. p. 215, line 17I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women,
  61. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  62. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  63. p. 220, line 27The women volunteering for nurses, the work begun for in earnest, no mere parade now;
  64. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  65. p. 234, line 2No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause,
  66. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  67. p. 256, line 22With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing,
  68. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  69. p. 265, line 8I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations,
  70. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  71. p. 270, line 7They live in the feelings of young men and the best women,
  72. p. 274, line 6Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
  73. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  74. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  75. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  76. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  77. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  78. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  79. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  80. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  81. p. 289, line 9Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
  82. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  83. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  84. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  85. p. 309, line 29The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
  86. p. 311, line 9(Ah soul, the sobs of women, the wounded groaning in agony,
  87. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  88. p. 334, line 20Ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty,
  89. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  90. p. 345, line 19Of the veil'd tableau—women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
  91. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  92. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  93. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!
  94. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,
  95. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  96. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
  97. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  98. p. 381, line 26To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,
  99. p. 436, line 6[…] will want them to be the poems of women entirely as much as men. I have wish'd to put […]
  100. p. 436, line 22[…] achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element […]