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- p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
- p. 29, line 21The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
- p. 33, line 17It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
- p. 40, line 23The drover watching his drove sings out to them that would stray,
- p. 44, line 3Do you take it I would astonish?
- p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
- p. 54, line 2And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
- p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
- p. 62, line 7Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?
- p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
- p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
- p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
- p. 75, line 15If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore,
- p. 76, line 5They and all would resume what I have told them.
- p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
- p. 89, line 2I cannot let you go, I would do you good,
- p. 90, line 23The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him,
- p. 93, line 23Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
- p. 96, line 1No longer abash'd, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)
- p. 97, line 24Who is he that would become my follower?
- p. 97, line 25Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
- p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
- p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
- p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
- p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
- p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
- p. 103, line 16Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
- p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
- p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.
- p. 122, line 26Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
- 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,
- p. 123, line 12Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not amaze me,
- p. 123, line 13Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd it would not astonish me.
- p. 160, line 9(Would the son separate himself from the father?)
- p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?
- p. 169, line 17Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
- p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
- p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
- p. 173, line 6The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
- p. 176, line 12Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of my name?
- p. 186, line 24None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
- p. 189, line 6O I hear already the bustle of instruments, they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
- p. 190, line 11I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself,
- p. 190, line 21I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
- p. 190, line 22I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad,
- p. 190, line 23I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia,
- p. 191, line 1I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States,
- p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
- p. 191, line 4Songs thereof would I sing, to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give,
- p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
- p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
- p. 191, line 22With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
- p. 199, line 9Whichever way I turn, O I think you could give me my mate back again if you only would,
- p. 222, line 14No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or speculators—would they continue?
- p. 222, line 15Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?
- p. 222, line 16Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
- p. 226, line 20But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like,
- p. 226, line 21That pennant I would be and must be.
- p. 226, line 23To be that pennant would be too fearful,
- p. 243, line 2Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.
- p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
- p. 265, line 15O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
- p. 265, line 16If you would be freer than all that has been before, come listen to me.
- p. 268, line 14The wide-swelling one, the braggart that would yesterday do so much,
- p. 270, line 24Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
- p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
- p. 271, line 1Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
- p. 299, line 17What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
- p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
- p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
- p. 314, line 27Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!
- p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
- p. 327, line 11I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
- p. 328, line 4I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.
- p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
- p. 333, line 5Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you?
- p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
- p. 363, line 15WHO has gone farthest? for I would go farther,
- p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
- p. 363, line 17And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious,
- p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
- p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
- p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
- p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
- p. 389, line 14Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
- p. 411, line 37[…] of the hour was palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little […]
- p. 411, line 38[…] The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual […]
- p. 411, line 39[…] or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always easier; medicines seem'd […]
- p. 411, line 40[…] effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
- p. 413, line 38[…] any long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever […]
- p. 413, line 43[…] with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness, not only able to […]
- p. 419, line 5Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
- p. 419, line 6Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every life;
- p. 427, line 12[…] another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with […]
- p. 427, line 18[…] an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would not assume to do now, knowing more clearly what it […]
- p. 427, line 40[…] to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But I anticipate […]
- p. 428, line 5[…] poet or other artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in […]
- p. 431, line 10[…] hitherto ages, I am not sure but I would name those old and less old songs ferried hither from […]
- p. 432, line 8[…] and evolutionary outcome of the past, so I would dare to claim for my verse. Without stopping to qualify […]
- p. 433, line 40[…] gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct […]
- p. 434, line 14[…] and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now be existing […]
- p. 434, line 27[…] commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and Hope […]