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8801Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
8801( Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
8801And is this the ground Washington trod?
8801And sullen hymns of defeat?
8801And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he cross''d, As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
8801And what does it say to me all the while?
8801Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?
8801Are there arts worthy freedom and a rich people?
8801Are there perfect women?
8801Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
8801Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
8801Did you seek the civilian''s peaceful and languishing rhymes?
8801Do you hear the clank of the muskets?
8801Is there a great moral and religious civilization-- the only justification of a great material one?
8801Is there a pervading atmosphere of beautiful manners?
8801Or by an agreement on a paper?
8801Over the traffic of cities-- over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses?
8801Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
8801The next with cheeks yet blooming-- Who are you, sweet boy?
8801Then the Mother of All with calm voice speaking, As to you Rebellious,( I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
8801Then to the second I step- and who are you my child and darling?
8801Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
8801What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
8801What stays with you latest and deepest?
8801What, to passions I witness around me to- day?
8801What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
8801When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
8801Who are you my dear comrade?
8801Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
8801Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
8801Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
8801Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
8801Why what comes over you now old man?
8801With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
8801Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
8801Would the talkers be talking?
8801_ Child._ Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
8801no sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers''bargains by day-- no brokers or speculators-- would they continue?
8801of curious panics, Of hard- fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
8801or by arms?
8801said I to myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
8801the other was equally brave;) Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth, Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
8801was the sea risen?
8801what are you?
8801would the singer attempt to sing?
35725( Did you see my last letter in the New York_ Times_ of October 4th, Sunday?)
35725( Why has n''t Jeff sent me the_ Union_ with my letter in?
35725And how are Mat''s girls?
35725Any news from Han?
35725Are the soldiers still on Fort Greene?
35725Cases enough, do I say?
35725Dear brother Jeff, how are you, and how is Matty, and how the dear little girls?
35725Dear mother, have you got over all that distress and sickness in your head?
35725Dear mother, how are you nowadays?
35725Did he write you one about the same time?
35725Did you hear from Mary''s Fanny since?
35725Did you send my last letter to Han?
35725Do you feel quite well again?
35725Do you then think of getting new apartments, after the 1st of May?
35725Does he get any good from that treatment with the baths, etc.?
35725Does it affect your head like it did?
35725Fred McReady is coming home very soon on furlough-- have any of the soldiers called on you?
35725Has Andrew gone?
35725Has she got all over it?
35725Have you heard anything from George or Han?
35725Have you heard anything from Mary or Han lately?
35725Have you heard from sister Han?
35725How are the Browns?
35725How could any one writing in cold blood, to- day, hope to add words of any value to those he wrote then?
35725How does Mat get along, and how little Sis and all?
35725How is California?
35725How is dear sister Mat, and how is Miss Mannahatta, and little Black Head?
35725I got a letter from Mrs. Price this morning-- does Emmy ever come to see you?
35725I had spells of deathly faintness and bad trouble in my head too, and sore throat( quite a little budget, ai n''t they?)
35725I have not heard anything since from George-- have you heard anything further?
35725I said to a lady who was looking with me,"Who can see that man without losing all wish to be sharp upon him personally?"
35725I said,"What is it, my dear?
35725I said,"Why, Oscar, do n''t you think you will get well?"
35725Is Helen home and well?
35725Is Probasco still in the store in N. Y.?
35725Is she as good and interesting as she was six months ago?
35725Is the little baby still hearty?
35725It has been awful hot here now for twenty- one days; ai n''t that a spell of weather?
35725Mat, do you go any to the Opera now?
35725Matty, my dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725Matty, my dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725McReady yet, and do n''t they hear whether the 51st is near Nicholasville, Kentucky, yet?
35725Mother, I believe I told you I had written to Mrs. Price-- do you see Emma?
35725Mother, I have not heard from George since, have you?
35725Mother, I hope you take things easy, do n''t you?
35725Mother, I should like to hear how you are yourself-- has your cold left you, and do you feel better?
35725Mother, I suppose you got my letter written Tuesday last, 29th March, did you not?
35725Mother, did a Mr. Howell call on you?
35725Mother, do any of the soldiers I see here from Brooklyn or New York ever call upon you?
35725Mother, do n''t you miss_ Walt_ loafing around, and carting himself off to New York toward the latter part of every afternoon?
35725Mother, do you ever hear from Mary?
35725Mother, do you get your letters now next morning, as you ought?
35725Mother, do you hear anything from George?
35725Mother, do you recollect what I wrote last summer about throat diseases, when Andrew was first pretty bad?
35725Mother, have you heard any further about Han?
35725Mother, have you heard anything from Han since, or from Mary''s folks?
35725Mother, have you heard anything from Han?
35725Mother, have you heard anything from Han?
35725Mother, have you heard anything whether the 51st went on with Burnside, or did they remain as a reserve in Kentucky?
35725Mother, have you heard anything?
35725Mother, how is Andrew?
35725Mother, how is Eddy getting along?
35725Mother, is George''s trunk home and of no use there?
35725Mother, was it Will Brown sent me those?
35725Mother, you do n''t say in either of them whether George has re- enlisted or not-- or is that not yet decided positively one way or the other?
35725Mother, you have a comfortable time as much as you can, and get a steak occasionally, wo n''t you?
35725O Matty, I have just thought of you-- dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725O mother, who do you think I got a letter from, two or three days ago?
35725So, Mannahatta, you tear Uncle George''s letters, do you?
35725Was my last name signed at the bottom of it?
35725We ask him how the Rebels treated him during those two days and nights within reach of them-- whether they came to him-- whether they abused him?
35725Well, mother, I should like to know all the domestic affairs at home; do n''t you have the usual things eating, etc.?
35725Well, mother, how are you getting along home?--how do you feel in health these days, dear mother?
35725Well, mother, how do things go on with you all?
35725Well, mother, we have commenced on another summer, and what it will bring forth who can tell?
35725What have you heard from Mary and her family, anything?
35725_ Times_ of Sunday, Oct. 4?
35725_ Times_ of last Sunday-- did you see it?
35725and Jess, is he about the same?
35725and how is your wrist and arm, mother?
35725and what is she doing now?
35725did the money come?
35725do you want anything?"
27494( For who except myself has yet conceiv''d what your children en- masse really are?).
27494( Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
27494( Whom have you slaughter''d lately European headsman?
27494), What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
2749410 O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
2749411 O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
2749412 Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
274943 Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
27494Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
27494And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
27494And what does it say to me all the while?
27494And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
27494And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls, To adorn the burial- house of him I love?
27494Are there some of us to droop and die?
27494Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life?
27494Are you faithful to things?
27494Are you not of some coterie?
27494Ask''d room those flush''d immortal ranks, the first forth- stepping armies?
27494BY BROAD POTOMAC''S SHORE By broad Potomac''s shore, again old tongue( Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)
27494Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions?
27494Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
27494Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
27494Come my tan- faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols?
27494Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
27494Did you seek the civilian''s peaceful and languishing rhymes?
27494Do the corpulent sleepers sleep?
27494Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
27494Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
27494Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity?
27494Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
27494Do you think a great city endures?
27494Does it answer universal needs?
27494Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?
27494Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
27494Does it sound with trumpet- voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
27494Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies''lands?
27494Has the night descended?
27494Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
27494Have real employments contributed to it?
27494Have the elder races halted?
27494Have you learn''d the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land?
27494Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
27494Have you possess''d yourself of the Federal Constitution?
27494Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
27494Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
27494Have you too the old ever- fresh forbearance and impartiality?
27494Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
27494How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
27494I am he who walks the States with a barb''d tongue, questioning every one I meet, Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
27494Is it not a mere tale?
27494Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
27494Is it uniform with my country?
27494O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
27494Or a teeming manufacturing state?
27494Or hotels of granite and iron?
27494Over the traffic of cities-- over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses?
27494Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?
27494TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
27494Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?
27494Then to the second I step-- and who are you my child and darling?
27494These States, what are they except myself?
27494Was the road of late so toilsome?
27494Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
27494Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
27494Were the children straying westward so long?
27494Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
27494What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute- books, now?
27494What do you think endures?
27494What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
27494What is this you bring my America?
27494What is your money- making now?
27494What is your respectability now?
27494What mocking and scornful negligence?
27494What stays with you latest and deepest?
27494What, to passions I witness around me to- day?
27494Where are your cavils about the soul now?
27494Where are your jibes of being now?
27494Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
27494Who are you my dear comrade?
27494Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
27494Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
27494Whose is that blood upon you so wet and sticky?)
27494Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
27494With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
27494Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
27494Would the talkers be talking?
27494You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money, May they stand fast, then?
27494_ Child_ Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
27494a prettiness?--is the good old cause in it?
27494a rhyme?
27494after death you shall be superb, Justice, health, self- esteem, clear the way with irresistible power, How dare you place any thing before a man?
27494and for the errant?
27494animating now to life itself?
27494are you really of the whole People?
27494are you very strong?
27494did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
27494do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
27494for the last- born?
27494has the hour come?
27494have they lock''d and bolted doors?
27494have you your sharp- edged axes?
27494how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
27494its substratums and objects?
27494little and big?
27494no sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers''bargains by day-- no brokers or speculators-- would they continue?
27494of curious panics, Of hard- fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
27494or a prepared constitution?
27494or any chef- d''oeuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
27494or the best built steamships?
27494original makers, not mere amanuenses?
27494said I to myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled, And sullen hymns of defeat?
27494so wide the tramping?
27494some school or mere religion?
27494the other was equally brave); Now be witness again, paint the mightiest armies of earth, Of those armies so rapid so wondrous what saw you to tell us?
27494was the sea risen?
27494what are you?
27494what can it do now?
27494will it improve manners?
27494would the singer attempt to sing?
8388( Is it night?
8388( said the boy''s soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing?
83882. Who is he that would become my follower?
8388A man is a summons and challenge;( It is vain to skulk-- Do you hear that mocking and laughter?
8388A young man came to me bearing a message from his brother; How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
8388Accouchez!_ Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
8388All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or grey stone?
8388All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them: How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
8388All waits for the right voices; Where is the practised and perfect organ?
8388And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed, and that there is no life without satisfaction; What is the earth?
8388And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
8388And what does it say to me all the while?
8388And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
8388And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls, To adorn the burial- house of him I love?
8388And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
8388And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
8388Are all nations communing?
8388Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions?
8388Are there some of us to droop and die?
8388Are they not continually putting distempered corpses in you?
8388Are those billions of men really gone?
8388Are those really Congressmen?
8388Are those the great Judges?
8388Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
8388Are we here alone?)
8388Are you retreating?
8388Are you so earnest-- so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
8388But there is one thing that belongs here-- shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
8388Ca n''t you stand it?
8388Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking- glass?
8388Come, my tan- faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?
8388Could I wish humanity different?
8388Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
8388Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
8388Daughter of the lands, did you wait for your poet?
8388Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?
8388Did we think victory great?
8388Did you guess any of them lived only its moment?
8388Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme?
8388Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
8388Do the corpulent sleepers sleep?
8388Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
8388Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
8388Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied, over there beyond the seas?
8388Do you enjoy yourself in the city?
8388Do you hear the ironical echoes?)
8388Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
8388Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
8388Do you suspect death?
8388Do you think the great city endures?
8388Does all sit there with you, with the mystic, unseen soul?
8388Does he feel and make me feel?
8388Does it improve manners?
8388Does it live through them?
8388Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the breasts of the mother of many children?
8388Does it still hold on untired?
8388Does the ague convulse your limbs?
8388Does the young man think often of him?
8388Does this acknowledge liberty with audible and absolute acknowledgment, and set slavery at nought, for life and death?
8388Does this answer?
8388Father, what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
8388Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is: Do you imagine it has stopped at this?
8388Great is the English brood-- what brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
8388Great is the English speech-- what speech is so great as the English?
8388Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority, and rest satisfied with explanations, and realise and be content and full?
8388Has it too the old, ever- fresh forbearance and impartiality?
8388Has the night descended?
8388Have I forgotten any part?
8388Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?
8388Have the elder races halted?
8388Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake?
8388Have you dreaded these earth- beetles?
8388Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
8388Have you guessed you yourself would not continue?
8388Have you pleasure from looking at the sky?
8388Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
8388Have you reckoned them for a trade, or farm- work?
8388He says indifferently and alike,"_ How are you, friend_?"
8388How can I but, as here, chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
8388How can you be alive, you growths of spring?
8388How can you furnish health, you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
8388I utter and utter: I speak not; yet, if you hear me not, of what avail am I to you?
8388If I were to suspect death, I should die now: Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well- suited toward annihilation?
8388If they had not reference to you in especial, what were they then?
8388In the name of these States, shall I scorn the antique?
8388Is he American?
8388Is he beloved long and long after he is buried?
8388Is he new?
8388Is he rousing?
8388Is it for the ever- growing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well united, proud beyond the old models, generous beyond all models?
8388Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?
8388Is it not, on the contrary, true, if not absolutely, yet with a most genuine and substantial approximation?
8388Is it something grown fresh out of the fields, or drawn from the sea, for use to me, to- day, here?
8388Is it through you?
8388Is it uniform with my country?
8388Is it wonderful that I should be immortal?
8388Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
8388Is it you then that thought yourself less?
8388Is not every continent worked over and over with sour dead?
8388Is reform needed?
8388Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?
8388Is that the President?
8388Is the beginningless past nothing?
8388Is the house shut?
8388Is the master away?
8388Is there a single final farewell?
8388Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
8388Is to- day nothing?
8388Let the questions rather be-- Is he powerful?
8388Men and women crowding fast in the streets-- if they are not flashes and specks, what are they?
8388Must I leave thee there in the door- yard, blooming, returning with spring?
8388Must I leave thee, lilac with heart- shaped leaves?
8388Must not Nature be persuaded many times?
8388Must we barely arrive at this beginning of me?...
8388No sleepers must sleep in those beds; No bargainers''bargains by day-- no brokers or speculators-- Would they continue?
8388O how can the ground not sicken?
8388O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
8388O what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?
8388O what is my destination?
8388O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
8388Old age, alarmed, uncertain-- A young woman''s voice, appealing to me for comfort; A young man''s voice,"_ Shall I not escape_?"
8388Old institutions-- these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures-- will we rate them so high?
8388Or a teeming manufacturing state?
8388Or by an agreement on a paper?
8388Or hotels of granite and iron?
8388Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
8388Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
8388Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
8388Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations, and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
8388Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
8388Or the rich better off than you?
8388Or the splendour of the night that envelops me?
8388Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
8388Or to achieve yourself a position?
8388Or with your mother and sisters?
8388Over the traffic of cities-- over the rumble of wheels in the streets: Are beds prepared, for sleepers at night in the houses?
8388Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long- accrued retribution?
8388Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were lately buzzing?
8388The battle- ship, perfect- modelled, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to- day under full sail?
8388The splendours of the past day?
8388Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?
8388Then to the second I step-- And who are you, my child and darling?
8388These ostensible realities, politics, points?
8388Think of manhood, and you to be a man; Do you count manhood, and the sweet of manhood, nothing?
8388Think of womanhood, and you to be a woman; The creation is womanhood; Have I not said that womanhood involves all?
8388This is unfinished business with me-- How is it with you?
8388Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations; Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
8388To bear-- to better; lacking these, of what avail am I?
8388To think there will still be farms, profits, crops-- yet for you, of what avail?
8388Was somebody asking to see the Soul?
8388Was that your best?
8388Was the road of late so toilsome?
8388Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
8388We understand, then, do we not?
8388Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
8388Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
8388Were all educations, practical and ornamental, well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
8388Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
8388Were the children straying westward so long?
8388Were the idea untrue, it would still be a glorious dream, which a man of genius might be content to live in and die for: but is it untrue?
8388Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
8388Were those your vast and solid?
8388Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?
8388Were you thinking that those were the words-- those delicious sounds out of your friends''mouths?
8388Were you thinking that those were the words-- those upright lines?
8388What I promised without mentioning it have you not accepted?
8388What are the mountains called that rise so high in the mists?
8388What are you doing, young man?
8388What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute- books, now?
8388What can it do now?
8388What climes?
8388What do you hear, Walt Whitman?
8388What do you need, Camerado?
8388What do you see, Walt Whitman?
8388What do you seek, so pensive and silent?
8388What do you think endures?
8388What is all this chattering of bare gums?
8388What is it, then, between us?
8388What is marvellous?
8388What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
8388What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
8388What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
8388What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
8388What is your money- making now?
8388What is your respectability now?
8388What myriads of dwellings are they, filled with dwellers?
8388What rivers are these?
8388What shall I give?
8388What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouched there on the sand?
8388What stays with you latest and deepest?
8388What the push of reading could not start, is started by me personally, is it not?
8388What the study could not teach-- what the preaching could not accomplish, is accomplished, is it not?
8388What troubles you, Yankee phantoms?
8388What waves and soils exuding?
8388What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
8388What, to passions I witness around me to- day, was the sea risen?
8388What, to pavements and homesteads here-- what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
8388Where are your cavils about the Soul now?
8388Where are your jibes of being now?
8388Where have you disposed of their carcasses?
8388Where is the developed Soul?
8388Who are the girls?
8388Who are the infants?
8388Who are the three old men going slowly with their arms about each others''necks?
8388Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
8388Who are they, as bats and night- dogs, askant in the Capitol?
8388Who are you, my dear comrade?
8388Who are you, sweet boy, with cheeks yet blooming?
8388Who knows but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you can not see me?
8388Who knows but I am enjoying this?
8388Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight?
8388Who was to know what should come home to me?
8388Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
8388Whom have you slaughtered lately, European headsman?
8388Whose is that blood upon you, so wet and sticky?
8388Why myself and all drowsing?
8388Why, what have you thought of yourself?
8388Will it help breed one good- shaped man, and a woman to be his perfect and independent mate?
8388Will the same style, and the direction of genius to similar points, be satisfactory now?
8388Will the whole come back then?
8388Will you seek afar off?
8388Will you squat and stifle there?
8388With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
8388Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
8388Would the talkers be talking?
8388Your ambition or business, whatever it may be?
8388[ 1] Why reclining, interrogating?
8388_ AUXILIARIES._ WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
8388_ PARTING FRIENDS._ What think you I take my pen in hand to record?
8388_ SINGING IN SPRING._ These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers: For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?
8388_ WHEREFORE?_ O me!
8388_ WONDERS._ 1. Who learns my lesson complete?
8388and do the middle- aged and the old think of him?
8388and the young woman think often of him?
8388and which are my miracles?
8388are the acts suitable to them closed?
8388did we stop discouraged, nodding on our way?
8388do I not see my love fluttering out there among the breakers?
8388do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
8388do you think it is love?
8388has the hour come?
8388have they locked and bolted doors?
8388have you pleasure from poems?
8388have you your sharp- edged axes?
8388how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
8388is it too only halting a while, Till night and sleep pass over?)
8388is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
8388is there nothing greater or more?
8388must all then amount to but this?
8388of curious panics, Of hard- fought engagements, or sieges tremendous, what deepest remains?"
8388or a prepared constitution?
8388or any_ chefs- d''oeuvre_ of engineering, forts, armaments?
8388or by arms?
8388or engaged in business?
8388or for the profits of a store?
8388or in womanly housework?
8388or is it mostly to me?
8388or is it without reference to universal needs?
8388or old needs of pleasure overlaid by modern science and forms?
8388or planning a nomination and election?
8388or sprung of the needs of the less developed society of special ranks?
8388or the beautiful maternal cares?
8388or the best- built steamships?
8388or the educated wiser than you?
8388or the lines of the arches and cornices?
8388or to fill a gentleman''s leisure, or a lady''s leisure?
8388or with your wife and family?
8388so sad, recurring-- What good amid these, O me, O life?
8388so wide the tramping?
8388some playing, some slumbering?
8388the increase abandoned?
8388those curves, angles, dots?
8388what are Body and Soul without satisfaction?
8388what are you?
8388what forests and fruits are these?
8388what is impossible or baseless or vague?
8388what is unlikely?
8388what persons and lands are here?
8388what were God?
8388who are the married women?
8388who makes much of a miracle?
8388would not people laugh at me?
8388would the singer attempt to sing?
8813And pray, sir,continued Lugare, as the outward signs of wrath disappear''d from his features;"what were you about the garden for?
8813But you must be very tired, Frank,rejoin''d the other;"wo n''t you let some of us harness up and carry you?
8813Can you relate nothing, then?
8813Do you know one Richard Hall that lives somewhere here among you?
8813Do you see that, sir? 8813 Do you think to make me believe your lies?
8813For what,he ask''d,"would this life be without immortality?
8813I guess so,said I;"what might it be about?"
8813Not_ all day_, Charley?
8813Now, Mr. Whitman,spoke up one of the girls,"what have you to say about Thanksgiving?
8813The Highest said: Do n''t let us begin so low-- isn''t our range too coarse-- too gross?... 8813 Were you by Mr. Nichols''s garden- fence last night?"
8813What have you to say then to such things?
8813_ H. Heine''s first principle of criticising a book was, What motive is the author trying to carry out, or express or accomplish? 8813 ''What was that plan? 8813 ( Ah, where would be any food for spirituality without night and the stars?) 8813 ( Can this really be true?) 8813 ( Had not all this terrible scene-- making the mimic ones preposterous-- had it not all been rehears''d, in blank, by Booth, beforehand?) 8813 ( Is there not a hint in it for a musical composition, of which it should be the back- ground? 8813 ( The slavery contest is settled-- and the war is long over-- yet do not those putrid conditions, too many of them, still exist? 8813 ( What subtle tie is this between one''s soul and the break of day? 8813 ( Will the time hasten when fatherhood and motherhood shall become a science-- and the noblest science?) 8813 (Are there going to be_ any men_ there?"
8813("There never were men that kept in better spirits in danger or defeat-- what then could they do in victory?"
8813All that has been put in statement, tremendous as it is, what is it compared with the vast fields and values and varieties left unreap''d?
8813Am I starting the sail- craft of poets in line?
8813And I would not go to the grave without briefly, but plainly, as I here do, acknowledging-- may I not say even glorying in it?
8813And could it really be, then?
8813And do we not see, in them, foreshadowings of the future races that shall fill these prairies?
8813And dost Thou subtly mystically now drip it through the air invisibly upon me?
8813And how, think you, rested Philip Marsh that night?
8813And if so, what is it?...
8813And now that he has gone hence, can it be that Thomas Carlyle, soon to chemically dissolve in ashes and by winds, remains an identity still?
8813And so you thought you could do a little robbing, and enjoy yourself in a manner you ought to be ashamed to own, without being punish''d, did you?"
8813And so-- one and all, little and big-- hav''n''t we had a good time?
8813And still goes one, saying,"What will ye give me, and I will deliver this man unto you?"
8813And what if children, growing up, In future seasons read The thing we do?
8813And whence came they?
8813And who remembers the renown''d New York"Tabernacle"of those days"before the war"?
8813Answerest thou, it is?
8813Are its disposals without ignominious distinctions?
8813Are not the United States this day busily using, working, more printer''s type, more presses, than any other country?
8813Are there arts worthy freedom and a rich people?
8813Are there athletes?
8813Are there bright beacons of happiness enjoy''d, and of good done by the way?
8813Are there crops of fine youths, and majestic old persons?
8813Are there perfect women, to match the generous material luxuriance?
8813Are they in their mating season?
8813Are we indignant?
8813Are we not doing well enough here already?
8813Are you not their superior in mental power, in liberal views of mankind, and in comprehensive intellect?
8813As I haunt thee so often, season by season, thou knowest, reckest not me,( yet why be so certain?
8813As I rise for return, I linger long to a delicious song- epilogue( is it the hermit- thrush?)
8813As a mixed political and social question, is not this full of dark significance?
8813As now taught, accepted and carried out, are not the processes of culture rapidly creating a class of supercilious infidels, who believe in nothing?
8813Asiatic or African?
8813At the end of that hour, the words,"perhaps when you arrive she may be_ dead_?"
8813Ay, him, if any one, I love in a sort-- but why?
8813Besides it''s plain at Washington Who likeliest wins the race, What earthly chance has"free soil"For any good fat place?
8813Better still, out of them is not a third theory, the real one, or suggesting the real one, to arise?)
8813But am I alone?
8813But do you know what they are?
8813But is it really advancing?
8813But the katydid-- how shall I describe its piquant utterances?
8813But what blood, my friends?
8813But what is life but an experiment?
8813But what use?
8813But where any former ones with prophecy so broad, so clear, as our times, our lands-- as those of the West?)
8813But why do I say enemies?
8813Can there be any doubt who the leader ought to be?
8813Can those be_ men_--those little livid brown, ash- streak''d, monkey- looking dwarfs?--are they really not mummied, dwindled corpses?
8813Can we attain such enfranchisement-- the true Democracy, and the height of it?
8813Can we, indeed, spare either of them?
8813Can you do it for them?"
8813Can you get hold of it, reader dear?
8813Common teachers or critics are always asking"What does it mean?"
8813Could it be that Black Nell knew her early master?
8813Could it be that he slept?
8813Could we wish humanity different?
8813Could we wish the people made of wood or stone?
8813Did Jesus Christ, the Saviour, ever have any material blood?
8813Did we call the latter imponderable?
8813Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme?
8813Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name?
8813Do not our publishers fatten quicker and deeper?
8813Do they know that from the single State of Kentucky more Union soldiers fought under our flag than Napoleon took into the battle of Waterloo?
8813Do we feel jeopardized?
8813Do you call those genteel little creatures American poets?
8813Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste- pot work, American art, American drama, taste, verse?
8813Do you want anything?"
8813Does it live through them?
8813Does it not undermine the old religious standards?
8813Does it solve readily with the sweet milk of the nipples of the breasts of the Mother of Many Children?
8813Does it still hold on untired?
8813Does not anything short of that third point of view, when you come to think of it profoundly and with amplitude, impugn Creation from the outset?
8813Does the young man think often of him?
8813Does this answer?
8813Duroc?
8813European adventures?
8813Even in the Iliad and Shakspere there is( is there not?)
8813Everywhere-- their own lands included--(is there not something terrible in the tenacity with which the one book out of millions holds its grip?)
8813Finally, the morality:"Virtue,"said Marcus Aurelius,"what is it, only a living and enthusiastic sympathy with Nature?"
8813For how can we remain, divided, contradicting ourselves, this way?
8813For there is something greater( is there not?)
8813For what moved the sick girl uneasily on her pillow, and raised her neck, and motion''d to her mother?
8813Glimmer gentle rays of what was scatter''d from a holy heart?
8813Had he caus''d a letter to be sent them since he got here in Washington?
8813Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority, and rest satisfied with explanations, and realize, and be content and full?
8813Hast Thou, pellucid, in Thy azure depths, medicine for case like mine?
8813Have benevolence, and love, and undeviating honesty left tokens on which thy eyes can rest sweetly?
8813Have n''t I given specimen clues, if no more?
8813Have the marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left hand for his sake?
8813Have we at present any such?
8813Have you ever realized it, my friends, that Lincoln, though grafted on the West, is essentially in personnel and character a Southern contribution?"
8813Have you forgotten your appointment?"
8813Have you never realized it, my friends, that Lincoln, though grafted on the West, is essentially, in personnel and character, a Southern contribution?
8813Have you not the treasures of health and untainted propensities, which many of those you envy never enjoy?
8813Have you, with your own eyes, look''d on Grant, and Lee, and Sherman?"
8813How could it happen that so beautiful and inoffensive a being should taste, even to its dregs, the bitterest unhappiness?
8813How does this man compare with the acknowledg''d"Father of his country"?
8813How has it been with thee?
8813I have itemized the night-- but dare I attempt the cloudless dawn?
8813I said,"What is it, my boy?
8813I said,"Why, Oscar, do n''t you think you will get well?"
8813I wonder does any other nation but ours afford opportunity for such a jaunt as this?
8813If the spiritual is not behind the material, to what purpose is the material?
8813In politics, what can be more ominous,( though generally unappreciated then)--what more significant than the Presidentiads of Fillmore and Buchanan?
8813In the revealings of such light, such exceptional hour, such mood, one does not wonder at the old story fables,( indeed, why fables?)
8813In wish and willingness( and if that were so, what matter about the reality?)
8813Indeed has any previous period afforded it?
8813Indeed, what is Nature but change, in all its visible, and still more its invisible processes?
8813Indeed, where else a more pregnant, more splendid one?
8813Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter?
8813Is he beloved long and long after he is buried?
8813Is it a lingering, inherited remains of man''s primitive wariness, from the wild animals?
8813Is it difficult to imagine ahead of us and them, evolv''d from them, poesy completer far than any they themselves fulfill''d?
8813Is it for the ever- growing communes of brothers and lovers, large, well united, proud, beyond the old models, generous beyond all models?
8813Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?
8813Is it not indeed strange?
8813Is it not really an intuition of the human race?
8813Is it not worth considering as a problem and puzzle in our democracy-- an indispensable want to be supplied?
8813Is it something grown fresh out of the fields, or drawn from the sea for use to me to- day here?
8813Is it strange that a thunder- storm follow''d such morbid and stifling cloud- strata?
8813Is it uniform with my country?
8813Is it well with thee, thus?
8813Is not here indeed the point underlying all tragedy?
8813Is not nakedness then indecent?
8813Is the fresh and broad demesne of America destined also to give them foothold and lodgment, permanent domicile?
8813Is there a great moral and religious civilization-- the only justification of a great material one?
8813Is there a pervading atmosphere of beautiful manners?
8813Is there not even now, indeed, an evolution, a departure from the masters?
8813Is there not something about the moon, some relation or reminder, which no poem or literature has yet caught?
8813Is this one of its hours, or the like of it?--so impalpable-- a mere breath, an evanescent tinge?
8813Let us hope there is( indeed, can there be any doubt there is?)
8813Need I say I demand the same in the elements and spirit and fruitage of National Literature?
8813Notes:[ 35] A few years ago I saw the question,"Has America produced any great poem?"
8813Now, sir, what was there in that bag?"
8813Of civilized lands to- day, whose of our retrospects has it not interwoven and link''d and permeated?
8813Of many a score-- aye, thousands, north and south, of unwrit heroes, unknown heroisms, incredible, impromptu, first- class desperations-- who tells?
8813Of what use is existence to me?
8813Only here, communion with the mysteries, the eternal problems, whence?
8813Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
8813Or what is humanity in its faith, love, heroism, poetry, even morals, but_ emotion_?
8813Or, to change the figure, I will present my varied little collation( what is our Country itself but an infinitely vast and varied collation?)
8813Ought not the innovation to be put down by opinion and criticism?
8813Perhaps you only receiv''d the plunder, and had an accomplice to do the more dangerous part of the job?"
8813Poor woman-- what story was it, out of her fortunes, to account for that inexpressibly scared way, those glassy eyes, and that hollow voice?
8813Repeating our inquiry, what, then, do we mean by real literature?
8813Shall I lie?"
8813Shall I tell you, reader, to what I attribute my already much- restored health?
8813Shall we applaud or condemn him?
8813Spices crush''d, their pungence yield, Trodden scents their sweets respire; Would you have its strength reveal''d?
8813Strange,( is it not?)
8813Such a nation-- such a society-- what nobler conception of moral existence can we form?
8813Symphony of fine musician, or sunset, or sea- waves rolling up the beach-- what do they mean?
8813THE WEATHER-- DOES IT SYMPATHIZE WITH THESE TIMES?
8813Take it out, with its radiations, and what would be left?
8813Talking of oratory, why is it that the unsophisticated practices often strike deeper than the train''d ones?
8813The Highest said: Do n''t let us begin so low-- isn''t our range too coarse-- too gross?...
8813The ashiness and the moisture on the brow, and the film over the eyeballs-- what man can look upon the sight, and not feel his heart awed within him?
8813The founders have pass''d to other spheres-- but what are these terrible duties they have left us?
8813The lush and the weird that have taken such extraordinary possession of Nineteenth century verse- lovers-- what mean they?
8813The secession war?
8813The wood of the cedar is of use-- but what profit on earth are those sprigs of acrid plums?
8813Then the camps of the wounded-- O heavens, what scene is this?--is this indeed_ humanity_--these butchers''shambles?
8813Then the other-- may we indeed name him the same day?
8813Then the words come from his lips, very emphatically and slowly pronounc''d, in a resonant, grave, melodious voice,_ What is the chief end of man?
8813Then to Shakspere''s characters-- Hamlet, Lear, the English- Norman kings, the Romans?
8813Then, from one of his many letters, for he seems to have delighted in correspondence: Some may query, What is the cross of Christ?
8813There you are, shoulder- straps!--but where are your companies?
8813They are names which are well known-- almost as well known and as much honor''d in England as in America; and yet what must we say in the end?
8813They complain in Olympia that Washington Territory gets but little immigration; but what wonder?
8813Those white palaces-- the dome- crown''d capitol there on the hill, so stately over the trees-- shall they be left-- or destroy''d first?
8813Thought you greatness was to ripen for you like a pear?
8813To all which we conclude, and repeat the terrible query: American National Literature-- is there distinctively any such thing, or can there ever be?
8813Travel, reciprocity,"interviewing,"intercommunion of lands-- what are they but Democracy''s and the highest Law''s best aids?
8813Truly, in color, outline, material and spiritual suggestiveness, where any more inclosing theme for idealist, poet, literary artist?
8813Two young fellows are having a friendly talk, amid which, says 1st conductor,"What did you do before you was a snatcher?"
8813UNNAMED REMAINS THE BRAVEST SOLDIER Of scenes like these, I say, who writes-- whoe''er can write the story?
8813Unwieldy and immense, who shall hold in behemoth?
8813Upon the whole is not Tennyson-- and was not Carlyle( like an honest and stern physician)--the true friend of our age?
8813WHO GETS THE PLUNDER?
8813Was he, then, a being so accurs''d?
8813We sail a dangerous sea of seething currents, cross and under- currents, vortices-- all so dark, untried-- and whither shall we turn?
8813We see the shreds of Hebrews, Romans, Greeks; but where, on her own soil, do we see, in any faithful, highest, proud expression, America herself?
8813What all through the wanderings of Virgil''s Aeneas?
8813What are these wounds in thy hands?
8813What does this immense and almost abnormal development of Philanthropy mean among the moderns?
8813What fortune else-- what dollar-- does not stand for, and come from, more or less imposition, lying, unnaturalness?
8813What has America?
8813What have we here, if not, towering above all talk and argument, the plentifully- supplied, last- needed proof of democracy, in its personalities?
8813What is Nature?
8813What is Tennyson''s service to his race, times, and especially to America?
8813What is a"boom"?
8813What is happiness, anyhow?
8813What is independence?
8813What is it in us, arous''d by those indirections and directions?
8813What is it to us that the mass pay us not that deference which wealth commands?
8813What is marvellous?
8813What is poor plain George Fox compared to William Shakspere-- to fancy''s lord, imagination''s heir?
8813What is this world without a further Divine purpose in it all?"
8813What mean these phantoms here?
8813What must have been the number unofficial, indirect-- to say nothing of the Southern armies?
8813What others-- what business, profit, wealth, without a taint?
8813What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through the mask?
8813What was Nature to Rousseau, to Voltaire, to the German Goethe in his little classical court gardens?
8813What were the elements, the invisible backgrounds and eidolons of it, to Homer''s heroes, voyagers, gods?
8813What would that do amid astral and bric- a- brac and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of Browning and Longfellow and art?
8813What, and who was that figure there?
8813What, even of the best and most successful, would be justified by itself alone?
8813What, however, do we more definitely mean by New World literature?
8813Where are the vaunts, and the proud boasts with which you went forth?
8813Where are your banners, and your bands of music, and your ropes to bring back your prisoners?
8813Where one more idealistic- real, more subtle, more sensuous- delicate?
8813Where, elsewhere, one so great?
8813Who Gets the Plunder?
8813Who cares that he wrote about Dr. Francia, and"Shooting Niagara"--and"the Nigger Question,"--and did n''t at all admire our United States?
8813Who is there to whom the theme does not come home?
8813Who knows the curious mystery of the eyesight?
8813Who may fend that danger, and fill that lack in the future, but a class of loftiest poets?
8813Who paint the scene, the sudden partial panic of the afternoon, at dusk?
8813Who remembers the old citizens of that time?
8813Who remembers the old places as they were?
8813Who show what moves there in the shadows, fluid and firm-- to save,( and it did save,) the army''s name, perhaps the nation?
8813Who wants to be any man''s mere follower?
8813Who was Ridman?
8813Who was the stranger?
8813Why do our experiences perhaps of some local country exhorter-- or often in the West or South at political meetings-- bring the most definite results?
8813Why dost thou not speak to me in my grief, and tell me when I shall behold my friends?
8813Why not come down from literary dignity, and confess we are sitting on one now, under the shade of a great walnut tree?
8813Why not even the tiny, turtle- shaped, yellow- back''d, black- spotted lady- bug that has lit on the shirt- sleeve of the arm inditing this?
8813Why not fix your verses henceforth to the gauge of the round globe?
8813Why should I exist in the world, unknown, unloved, press''d with cares, while so many around me have all their souls can desire?
8813Why should my path be so much rougher than theirs?
8813Why was it, too, that the young man''s heart moved with a feeling of kindness toward the harshly treated child?
8813Why would any intrusion, even from people I like, spoil the charm?
8813Will America ever have such an artist out of her own gestation, body, soul?
8813Will the same style, and the direction of genius to similar points, be satisfactory now?
8813Wo n''t you give us a sermon in advance, to sober us down?"
8813Would not that, indeed, be the kingdom of God come on earth?"
8813Would such a fact as this cause your sadness?
8813Would you have in yourself the divine, vast, general law?
8813Yet now the sought- for opportunity offers, I find my notes incompetent,( why, for truly profound themes, is statement so idle?
8813Yet who can wonder?
8813You can cultivate corn and roses and orchards-- but who shall cultivate the mountain peaks, the ocean, and the tumbling gorgeousness of the clouds?
8813[ 38] Is there not such a thing as the philosophy of American history and politics?
8813_ First party_--Why not, then, respect it in your poems?
8813alarm''d?
8813and do the middleaged and the old think of him?
8813and heart and tongue Accurse us for the deed?
8813and how do you like it anyhow?
8813and mortality but an exercise?
8813and the second, Has he achiev''d it?
8813and the young woman think often of him?
8813and which, with no sign of stopping, only regulated and vein''d with fitting appreciation, flows deeply, widely yet?
8813and, if those fail, by the District Attorney?
8813answered the young drunkard, very composedly,"is that all?
8813by the present, or the material ostent alone?
8813do you?
8813especially the democratic literature of the future?
8813have you seen Abraham Lincoln-- and heard him speak-- and touch''d his hand?
8813how entirely they tally on land the grandeur and superb monotony of the skies of heaven, and the ocean with its waters?
8813how freeing, soothing, nourishing they are to the soul?
8813is not that a theme worth chanting, striving for?
8813more than Wellington took with all the allied armies against Napoleon?
8813old history-- miracles-- romances?
8813or from his savage ancestry far back?
8813or the bloodless chalk of Allibone''s Dictionary?
8813or what is the meaning of this plenitude, swiftness, eagerness, display?
8813or, has it advanced for a long while?
8813or,"ca n''t you understand?")
8813said he,"have we met so soon, Mr. Covert?
8813some bumble- bee symphony?)
8813still result in diseases, fevers, wounds-- not of war and army hospitals-- but the wounds and diseases of peace?)
8813the famous pieces of the Grecian masters-- and all masters?
8813the most antique?
8813the whole race?
8813uttering and absorbing more publications than any other?
8813weeds, annuals, of the rank, rich soil-- not central, enduring, perennial things?
8813what is unlikely?
8813where are your men?
8813whither?
8813who bridle leviathan?
8813who can tell?)
8813why does the right phrase never offer?)