Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

The lines with “world”

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  1. p. 10, line 1(Yet methinks certain, or as good as certain, at the last,) the field the world,
  2. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  3. p. 11, line 1I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
  4. p. 12, line 2Passing the hues and objects of the world,
  5. p. 13, line 21Not this the world,
  6. p. 15, line 12(Ay through the world, urged by these songs,
  7. p. 19, line 6Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
  8. p. 20, line 28Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,
  9. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  10. p. 26, line 6Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
  11. p. 28, line 3A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching,
  12. p. 30, line 25Always the procreant urge of the world.
  13. p. 44, line 13I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
  14. p. 45, line 7If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
  15. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  16. p. 50, line 1Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising freshly exuding,
  17. p. 69, line 18I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over,
  18. p. 78, line 18I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
  19. p. 79, line 7TO the garden the world anew ascending,
  20. p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
  21. p. 95, line 24Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
  22. p. 99, line 15Collecting I traverse the garden the world, but soon I pass the gates,
  23. p. 114, line 19I behold the mariners of the world,
  24. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  25. p. 120, line 24Healthy, free, the world before me,
  26. p. 148, line 13To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
  27. p. 152, line 12If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
  28. p. 158, line 6These also are the lessons of our New World;
  29. p. 158, line 7While how little the New after all, how much the Old, Old World!
  30. p. 159, line 14Pass'd! pass'd! for us, forever pass'd, that once so mighty world, now void, inanimate, phantom world,
  31. p. 159, line 15Embroider'd, dazzling, foreign world, with all its gorgeous legends, myths,
  32. p. 160, line 8We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,
  33. p. 160, line 32Not only all the world of works, trade, products,
  34. p. 160, line 33But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.
  35. p. 163, line 7With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world,
  36. p. 163, line 18Thou, also thou, a World,
  37. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  38. p. 168, line 25Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world,
  39. p. 169, line 8Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared,
  40. p. 183, line 4And all the world a dream.
  41. p. 183, line 22We debouch upon a newer mightier world, varied world,
  42. p. 183, line 23Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
  43. p. 184, line 29All the pulses of the world,
  44. p. 190, line 10I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
  45. p. 190, line 16I henceforth tread the world chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower,
  46. p. 194, line 25Geography, the world, is in it,
  47. p. 195, line 14I chant the world on my Western sea,
  48. p. 195, line 23Commencing from this day surrounded by the world.
  49. p. 195, line 24And you Libertad of the world!
  50. p. 206, line 29THE world below the brine,
  51. p. 215, line 14I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
  52. p. 223, line 7The idea of all, of the Western world one and inseparable,
  53. p. 231, line 1City of the world! (for all races are here,
  54. p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
  55. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  56. p. 244, line 17Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,
  57. p. 247, line 22Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
  58. p. 250, line 6WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading,
  59. p. 250, line 15When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
  60. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  61. p. 252, line 20Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world,
  62. p. 252, line 21(The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,)
  63. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,
  64. p. 254, line 11From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,
  65. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  66. p. 254, line 23To the leaven'd soil of the general Western world to attest my songs,
  67. p. 260, line 15Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
  68. p. 264, line 18We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,
  69. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  70. p. 275, line 12Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)
  71. p. 277, line 14In I myself, in all the world, these currents flowing,
  72. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,
  73. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  74. p. 287, line 17For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,
  75. p. 289, line 1I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it.
  76. p. 289, line 16I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world, counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,
  77. p. 291, line 7The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
  78. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  79. p. 307, line 3When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world,
  80. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  81. p. 309, line 7Destin'd to fill the world.
  82. p. 309, line 26Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world,
  83. p. 310, line 3Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
  84. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,
  85. p. 312, line 3The manly strophe of the husbands of the world,
  86. p. 312, line 33The clear electric base and baritone of the world,
  87. p. 315, line 6Cheerfully tallying life, walking the world, the real,
  88. p. 315, line 22In the Old World the east the Suez canal,
  89. p. 316, line 5Not you alone proud truths of the world,
  90. p. 317, line 5I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the world,
  91. p. 318, line 5Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'd.
  92. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  93. p. 320, line 6The world of 1492, with its awaken'd enterprise,
  94. p. 320, line 12Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,
  95. p. 320, line 32Thy circumnavigation of the world begin,
  96. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  97. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  98. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  99. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
  100. p. 347, line 22That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
  101. p. 348, line 1Brain of the New World, what a task is thine,
  102. p. 348, line 7And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
  103. p. 348, line 25Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes,
  104. p. 349, line 5World of the real—world of the twain in one,
  105. p. 349, line 6World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to identity, body, by it alone,
  106. p. 349, line 9Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be constructed here,
  107. p. 349, line 10(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures to come,)
  108. p. 349, line 11Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
  109. p. 351, line 16Thou mental, moral orb—thou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
  110. p. 356, line 20The fretting world, the streets, the noisy hours of day withdraw,
  111. p. 356, line 27Bring the old pageants, show the feudal world.
  112. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  113. p. 358, line 20A reborn race appears—a perfect world, all joy!
  114. p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
  115. p. 364, line 19Of the true New World—of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
  116. p. 368, line 1For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
  117. p. 369, line 7Around me I hear that eclat of the world, politics, produce,
  118. p. 369, line 20The rapt promises and luminè of seers, the spiritual world, these centuries-lasting songs,
  119. p. 378, line 10Now in those camps of green, in their tents dotting the world,
  120. p. 379, line 26THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
  121. p. 379, line 27For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.
  122. p. 384, line 48[…] Chant, 397 True Conquerors, 397 The United States to Old World Critics, 398 The Calming Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age […]
  123. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  124. p. 394, line 19Thou, like the parti-colored world itself—like infinite, teeming, mocking life!
  125. p. 396, line 2No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
  126. p. 397, line 7"The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes,
  127. p. 397, line 9Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest—namely, One's- Self—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
  128. p. 410, line 6A strange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval,
  129. p. 413, line 44[…] earnestness, not only able to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]
  130. p. 413, line 45[…] to stand the whole world, but conquer that world united against us […]
  131. p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
  132. p. 425, line 27[…] visite to the coming generations of the New World,* if I may assume to say so. That I have […]
  133. p. 428, line 16[…] front along the whole line, the whole civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new […]
  134. p. 430, line 9[…] past, but the born child of the New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day […]
  135. p. 430, line 24[…] means of their assimilation consistent with the Western world […]
  136. p. 431, line 1[…] The New World receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European […]
  137. p. 431, line 7[…] groups, or any man's or woman's individuality, Old World or New, are from them—and though if I were […]
  138. p. 432, line 9[…] Without stopping to qualify the averment, the Old World has had the poems of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste […]
  139. p. 432, line 12[…] affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs the poems of realities and science and of the […]
  140. p. 432, line 16[…] poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  141. p. 434, line 43[…] as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for […]
  142. p. 438, line 5[…] perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this legacy, ever belong'd to any school, or ever painted […]
  143. p. 438, line 24[…] be dominated by the poetry of the Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and […]