Concordance
The 14,148 different words in the final edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.
Y
yacht 2
ya-honk 1
Yankee 8
- p. 36, line 6The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
- p. 40, line 17The clean-hair'd Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
- p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
- p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
- p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
- p. 210, line 10What troubles you Yankee phantoms? what is all this chattering of bare gums?
- p. 211, line 1Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
- p. 268, line 2Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation life,
yard 5
- p. 58, line 11Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
- p. 174, line 19The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory,
- p. 239, line 16The crowd, O the crowd of the bloody forms, the yard outside also fill'd,
- p. 301, line 19Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
- p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
yards 1
yarn 1
yawp 1
ye 31
- p. 17, line 24But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
- p. 161, line 24And here shall ye inhabit powerful Matrons!
- p. 162, line 16To you ye reverent sane sisters,
- p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
- p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
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- p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,
- p. 167, line 3For them we abdicate, in them ourselves ye forest kings!
- p. 213, line 28Be ye my Gods.
- p. 213, line 33Be ye my Gods.
- p. 279, line 19(Pass, pass, ye proud brigades, with your tramping sinewy legs,
- p. 280, line 28Melt, melt away ye armies—disperse ye blue-clad soldiers,
- p. 280, line 29Resolve ye back again, give up for good your deadly arms,
- p. 312, line 6(I think O tongues ye tell this heart, that cannot tell itself,
- p. 316, line 6Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,
- p. 322, line 22Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!
- p. 322, line 23Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!
- p. 341, line 8YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also,
- p. 341, line 9Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles,
- p. 379, line 11To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,
- p. 386, line 3Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry;
- p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
- p. 390, line 12On for your time, ye furious debouché!
- p. 390, line 14Nor you, ye lost designs alone—nor failures, aspirations;
- p. 391, line 7Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean.
- p. 391, line 13'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
- p. 406, line 7[…] Drops, 409. Good-Bye my Fancy, 409. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An […]
- p. 410, line 1ON, on the same, ye jocund twain!
- p. 410, line 14On, on, ye jocund twain! continue on the same!
- p. 418, line 25Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes,
yea 1
year 40
- p. 80, line 4Seeking something yet unfound though I have diligently sought it many a long year,
- p. 96, line 6Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,
- p. 96, line 14Every year shall you bloom again, out from where you retired you shall emerge again;
- p. 111, line 23I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
- p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
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- p. 188, line 7A GREAT year and place,
- p. 190, line 20YEAR of meteors! brooding year!
- p. 191, line 16Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good—year of forebodings!
- p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
- p. 192, line 9You and me arrived—America arrived and making this year,
- p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
- p. 221, line 13ARM'D year—year of the struggle,
- p. 221, line 14No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,
- p. 221, line 19Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,
- p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
- p. 222, line 2Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp'd cannon,
- p. 222, line 3I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
- p. 241, line 9YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
- p. 245, line 1Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,
- p. 267, line 10The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
- p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
- p. 319, line 10Year at whose wide-flung door I sing!
- p. 319, line 11Year of the purpose accomplish'd!
- p. 319, line 12Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!
- p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
- p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
- p. 377, line 17Which holding in trust for me faithfully back again give me many a year hence,
- p. 379, line 4Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,
- p. 384, line 11[…] Here, 386 My Canary Bird, 386 Queries to My Seventieth Year, 387 The Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and […]
- p. 395, line 5The last of afternoons, the evening hours, for many a year his regular custom,
- p. 406, line 9[…] on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, 410. My 71st Year, 410. Apparitions, 410. The Pallid Wreath, 411. An Ended Day, 411. Old Age's Ship […]
- p. 406, line 15[…] Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's, 412. To the Pending Year, 412. Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, 412. Long, Long Hence, 412. Bravo, Paris Exposition, 413. Interpolation Sounds […]
- p. 407, line 17[…] I while away the hours of my 72d year—hours of forced confinement in my den—by putting in […]
- p. 416, line 13Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,
- p. 432, line 27[…] acquaintance with poetic literature. Along in my sixteenth year I had become possessor of a stout, well-cramm'd one thousand […]
yearly 1
yearn'd 1 today: yearned
yearned see yearn'd
yearnfully 1
yearning 13
- p. 14, line 3Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to meet,
- p. 43, line 25This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
- p. 79, line 25Singing the bedfellow's song, (O resistless yearning!
- p. 106, line 19THIS moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone,
- p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
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- p. 197, line 1From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
- p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
- p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
- p. 307, line 23What yearning expression! how uneasy they are when he moves away from them;
- p. 308, line 22Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine!
- p. 312, line 7This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.)
- p. 318, line 15Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,
- p. 353, line 6The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
yearnings 2
years 116
yell 1
yelling 1
yellow 22
- p. 38, line 16And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,
- p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
- p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
- p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
- p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
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- p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
- p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
- p. 141, line 1Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,
- p. 168, line 28And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
- p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
- p. 199, line 5What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
- p. 199, line 20Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!
- p. 200, line 19The yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping, the face of the sea almost touching,
- p. 201, line 6By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,
- p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
- p. 258, line 13With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air,
- p. 281, line 13Prairie, orchard, and yellow grain of the North,
- p. 286, line 17Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk, the lilacs bloom in the dooryards,
- p. 309, line 18Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,
- p. 327, line 17It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
- p. 388, line 16The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun;
- p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,
yellow-blue 1
yellow-crown'd 1
yellower 1
yellow-flower'd 1
yellow-green 2
yellow-hemm'd 1
yellow-pine 1
yellow-spear'd 1
Yellowstone 2
Yellowstone's 1
yellow-white 1
yells 1
yes 6
- p. 21, line 4Yes here comes my mistress the soul.
- p. 158, line 29Yes, if you will allow me to say so,
- p. 198, line 8Yes, when the stars glisten'd,
- p. 198, line 14Yes my brother I know,
- p. 401, line 6(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good—to settle—has a well-fill'd purse—no spot will do but this;)
- p. 422, line 13Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
yesterday 1
yet 268
Yiang-tse 1
yield 7
- p. 80, line 28From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
- p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
- p. 166, line 28Nor yield we mournfully majestic brothers,
- p. 184, line 18By those swarms upon our rear we must never yield or falter,
- p. 186, line 3Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious,
- p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
- p. 324, line 31I yield my ships to Thee.
yielded 5
- p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
- p. 143, line 13The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life.
- p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
- p. 393, line 5Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
yieldest 2
yielding 4
yields 1
yoke 1
yon 1
Yonnondio 4
- p. 384, line 43[…] Songs, 394 Old Salt Kossabone, 395 The Dead Tenor, 395 Continuities, 396 Yonnondio, 396 Life, 396 "Going Somewhere," 397 Small the Theme of My Chant, 397 True […]
- p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,
- p. 396, line 19Yonnondio! Yonnondio!—unlimn'd they disappear;
Yosemite 3
you 1,532
you'd 1
you'll 1
young 121
younger 4
- p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
- p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
- p. 177, line 24Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
- p. 322, line 15The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.
youngest 3
youngster 2
youngster's 1
your 363
yours 17
- p. 43, line 2If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
- p. 43, line 25This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
- p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
- p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
- p. 178, line 8From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
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- p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
- p. 203, line 9What is yours is mine my father.
- p. 231, line 12I chant and celebrate all that is yours—yet peace no more,
- p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
- p. 275, line 20I match my spirit against yours you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
- p. 298, line 4MY spirit to yours dear brother,
- p. 316, line 24You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,
- p. 316, line 25You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,
- p. 372, line 3With all the perils were yours.)
- p. 389, line 15Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
- p. 391, line 7Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean.
- p. 393, line 14Thou, Washington, art all the world's, the continents' entire—not yours alone, America,
yourself 52
- p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?
- p. 73, line 25You must travel it for yourself.
- p. 74, line 10I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
- p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
- p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
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- p. 85, line 10Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
- p. 86, line 9(Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
- p. 96, line 28Do not fold yourself so in your pink-tinged roots timid leaves!
- p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
- p. 98, line 1Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my shoulders,
- p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
- p. 103, line 19Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
- p. 105, line 2Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
- p. 125, line 25Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
- p. 126, line 8You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible call to depart,
- p. 128, line 21What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
- p. 129, line 8Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
- p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
- p. 142, line 9How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
- p. 146, line 7To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
- p. 167, line 19You average spiritual manhood, purpose of all, pois'd on yourself, giving not taking law,
- p. 170, line 8Why what have you thought of yourself?
- p. 170, line 9Is it you then that thought yourself less?
- p. 172, line 2Or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?
- p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
- p. 177, line 7Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
- p. 186, line 22None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
- p. 186, line 25I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself,
- p. 187, line 6You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life,
- p. 187, line 13Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom'd routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me,
- p. 201, line 1O you singer solitary, singing by yourself, projecting me,
- p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
- p. 230, line 23When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
- p. 231, line 7Spring up O city—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!
- p. 251, line 12The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,
- p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
- p. 271, line 5Have you possess'd yourself of the Federal Constitution?
- p. 271, line 12Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
- p. 274, line 13Underneath all to me is myself, to you yourself, (the same monotonous old song.)
- p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
- p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
- p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
- p. 327, line 3Double yourself and receive me darkness,
- p. 333, line 3Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
- p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
- p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
- p. 335, line 20Yourself! yourself! yourself, for ever and ever!
- p. 344, line 14I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eternal, you yourself will surely escape,
- p. 422, line 16May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
yourselves 5
- p. 96, line 17O I do not know what you mean there underneath yourselves, you are not happiness,
- 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. 134, line 9Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves from us,
- p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
- p. 211, line 18Turn back unto this day and make yourselves afresh.
youth 30
- p. 30, line 21Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
- p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
- p. 61, line 8Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth,
- p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
- p. 72, line 12O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity!
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- p. 107, line 22Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were,
- 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,
- p. 121, line 18The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
- p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
- p. 146, line 3What attractions are these beyond any before? what bloom more than the bloom of youth?
- p. 147, line 5Know'st thou the excellent joys of youth?
- p. 177, line 27With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age,
- p. 180, line 24YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
- p. 249, line 20NOT youth pertains to me,
- p. 296, line 25Of youth long sped and middle age declining,
- p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
- p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
- p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
- p. 323, line 27Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth,
- p. 327, line 16Perfume and youth course through me and I am their wake.
- p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
- p. 373, line 3How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, the absolute success, despite of people—illustrates evil as well as good,
- p. 375, line 2In the hilarity of youth,
- p. 391, line 3Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at hand,
- p. 394, line 7Not summer's zones alone—not chants of youth, or south's warm tides alone,
- p. 403, line 8From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)
- p. 410, line 2My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years,
- p. 420, line 22Begun in ripen'd youth and steadily pursued,
- p. 437, line 42[…] Annals of Old Painters," conn'd by me in youth. Rubens, the Flemish painter, in one of his wanderings through […]
youthful 4
- p. 183, line 11We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
- p. 280, line 17No holiday soldiers—youthful, yet veterans,
- p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
- p. 437, line 3[…] the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy […]
youths 9
- p. 87, line 2Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
- p. 100, line 6Interchange it youths with each other! let none render it back!)
- p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
- p. 183, line 13O you youths, Western youths,
- p. 183, line 15Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
- p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.
- p. 293, line 15And youth's convulsive breathings, memories of home,
- p. 381, line 10I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,