The lines with “years”
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- p. 11, line 24(With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,)
- p. 16, line 15Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,
- p. 29, line 13I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
- p. 37, line 3Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.
- p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
- p. 54, line 26Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
- p. 61, line 21Not a single one over thirty years of age.
- p. 62, line 3A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more came to release him,
- p. 65, line 8The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
- p. 67, line 2Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
- p. 69, line 21Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
- p. 83, line 4He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
- p. 85, line 19For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
- p. 89, line 13In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
- p. 111, line 23I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
- 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.
- p. 126, line 21Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
- p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
- p. 130, line 4Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
- p. 130, line 5A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
- p. 131, line 14What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
- p. 146, line 1I am more than eighty years of age, I am the most venerable mother,
- p. 166, line 13As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to join the refrain,
- p. 169, line 3I see in you, certain to come, the promise of thousands of years, till now deferr'd,
- p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
- p. 192, line 8With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these years,
- p. 192, line 10This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
- p. 192, line 11O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You,
- p. 194, line 4When the summons is made, when the answer that waited thousands of years answers,
- p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
- p. 215, line 6Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
- p. 219, line 17Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading,
- p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
- p. 221, line 2War! be it weeks, months, or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
- p. 221, line 7Unlimber them! (no more as the past forty years for salutes for courtesies merely,
- p. 226, line 16Not for the present alone, for a thousand years chanting through you,
- p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
- p. 232, line 12As eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends,
- p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,
- p. 241, line 8For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
- p. 241, line 16Years looking backward resuming in answer to children,
- p. 241, line 21Years hence of these scenes, of these furious passions, these chances,
- p. 249, line 11Me master years a hundred since from my parents sunder'd,
- p. 269, line 18The years straying toward infidelity he withholds by his steady faith,
- p. 277, line 5Songs of continued years I sing.
- p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
- p. 282, line 20Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
- p. 285, line 14Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house—but dead, dead, dead.
- p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
- p. 293, line 19Years after, even in the hour of death, the sad refrain, the tune, the voice, the words,
- p. 294, line 25But that thou walk'dst thy years in barter, 'mid the haunts of brokers,
- p. 296, line 24A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,
- p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
- p. 304, line 21I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
- p. 305, line 1I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 305, line 2Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
- p. 305, line 3Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
- p. 311, line 30A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,
- p. 323, line 25Thou knowest my years entire, my life,
- p. 330, line 9The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months and years,
- p. 334, line 3(I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
- p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.
- p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
- p. 342, line 13QUICKSAND years that whirl me I know not whither,
- p. 344, line 4O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
- p. 355, line 8In each house is the ovum, it comes forth after a thousand years.
- p. 369, line 10I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
- p. 370, line 9YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform'd!
- p. 371, line 10Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms,
- p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
- p. 371, line 13Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;)
- p. 373, line 1OF these years I sing,
- p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
- p. 374, line 10Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs,
- p. 376, line 24After assiduous years surveying results, preparing for departure,
- p. 377, line 1With nothing to show to devise from its idle years,
- p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
- p. 377, line 22Exhale them perennial sweet death, years, centuries hence.
- p. 384, line 60[…] Dying Veteran, 400 Stronger Lessons, 400 A Prairie Sunset, 400 Twenty Years, 401 Orange Buds by Mail From Florida, 401 Twilight, 401 You Lingering Sparse […]
- p. 386, line 19Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
- p. 391, line 4My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past,
- p. 394, line 8But held by sluggish floes, pack'd in the northern ice, the cumulus of years,
- p. 398, line 19For all the brave strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've forward sprung in freedom's help, all years, all lands,
- p. 401, line 3Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
- p. 401, line 12(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years? What of the future?)
- p. 403, line 8From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)
- p. 403, line 12Or " Captain! My Captain! " " Kosmos," "Quicksand Years," or "Thoughts,"
- p. 407, line 26[…] opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and […]
- p. 407, line 33In fact, here I am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much […]
- p. 408, line 18[…] the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and […]
- p. 410, line 2My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years,
- p. 411, line 4One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
- p. 412, line 22AFTER a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials,
- p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
- p. 425, line 13[…] it were, the journey—(a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd […]
- p. 425, line 19[…] unconscious) intentions, with certain unfoldings of the thirty years they seek to embody. These lines, therefore, will probably blend […]
- p. 425, line 24[…] eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my three-score-and-ten I live largely on memory […]
- p. 426, line 21[…] escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can fully answer. I consider the point that […]
- p. 426, line 33[…] prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd […]
- p. 427, line 40[…] poetry would cease to be read in fifty years." But I anticipate the very contrary. Only a firmer, vastly […]
- p. 427, line 43[…] emigrate. Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of […]
- p. 428, line 14[…] and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change […]
- p. 428, line 20[…] period we have presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may […]
- p. 432, line 32[…] notes)—has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
- p. 434, line 10[…] along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous […]
- p. 434, line 11[…] agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of this henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three […]
- p. 434, line 13[…] henceforth homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not […]
- p. 436, line 40[…] the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine […]