Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
chapter-002	it said, Knowst thou not there is but one theme for ever- enduring bards?
chapter-009	And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
chapter-009	When I Read the Book When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then( said I) what the author calls a mans life?
chapter-019	What Place Is Besieged?
chapter-019	What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
chapter-023	And why should I not speak to you?
chapter-023	To You Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
chapter-031	What is all else to us?
chapter-031	what is it to us what the rest do or think?
chapter-035	( What is this that frees me so in storms?
chapter-035	What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
chapter-040	I Am He That Aches with Love I am he that aches with amorous love; Does the earth gravitate?
chapter-040	does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?
chapter-044	And why is it yet unfound?)
chapter-049	Who is he that would become my follower?
chapter-049	Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
chapter-051	And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
chapter-051	These I Singing in Spring These I singing in spring collect for lovers,( For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
chapter-039	Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?
chapter-039	O why do you now cease?
chapter-039	O why sting me for a swift moment only?
chapter-039	Why can you not continue?
chapter-039	why do you tantalize me thus?
chapter-066	or what with the destruction of them?)
chapter-057	Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
chapter-057	Are you the new person drawn toward me?
chapter-057	Do you see no further than this facade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
chapter-057	Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
chapter-057	Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
chapter-057	Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
chapter-057	Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloyd satisfaction?
chapter-057	Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
chapter-057	To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
chapter-026	13 Was somebody asking to see the soul?
chapter-026	8 What are you doing young man?
chapter-026	9 What do you seek so pensive and silent?
chapter-026	All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them; How can the real body ever die and be buried?
chapter-026	And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
chapter-026	Are you so earnest, so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
chapter-026	Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
chapter-026	Dear son do you think it is love?
chapter-026	Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
chapter-026	For your life adhere to me,( I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you, but what of that?
chapter-026	In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique?
chapter-026	Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)
chapter-026	These ostensible realities, politics, points?
chapter-026	What do you need camerado?
chapter-026	Your ambition or business whatever it may be?
chapter-077	Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?
chapter-077	The battle- ship, perfect- modeld, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to- day under full sail?
chapter-077	The splendors of the past day?
chapter-077	What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
chapter-077	What think you I take my pen in hand to record?
chapter-077	or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
chapter-095	How can I but as here chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these States?
chapter-095	how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
chapter-093	A man is a summons and challenge,( It is vain to skulk-- do you hear that mocking and laughter?
chapter-093	A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother, How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
chapter-093	He says indifferently and alike How are you friend?
chapter-093	do you hear the ironical echoes?)
chapter-110	Is it a dream?
chapter-032	( Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?)
chapter-032	And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
chapter-032	And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
chapter-032	And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
chapter-032	Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
chapter-032	Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
chapter-032	Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
chapter-032	Have you ever loved the body of a man?
chapter-032	Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
chapter-032	Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body?
chapter-032	How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
chapter-032	Is it one of the dull- faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
chapter-032	The mans body is sacred and the womans body is sacred, No matter who it is, it is sacred-- is it the meanest one in the laborers gang?
chapter-032	Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
chapter-032	or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
chapter-115	( Remember you surging Manhattans crowds as you passd with your cortege of nobles?
chapter-115	As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant, What am I myself but one of your meteors?
chapter-116	( Have I forgotten any part?
chapter-116	any thing in the past?
chapter-123	To the Man- of- War- Bird Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renewd on thy prodigious pinions,( Burst the wild storm?
chapter-113	Could I wish humanity different?
chapter-113	Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
chapter-113	Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
chapter-113	Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long- accrued retribution?
chapter-125	Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
chapter-125	Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter?
chapter-122	What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouchd there on the sand?
chapter-122	that form in the dark, with tears?
chapter-118	Here the children straying westward so long?
chapter-118	Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
chapter-118	Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
chapter-118	so wide the tramping?
chapter-101	4 But hold-- dont I forget my manners?
chapter-101	5 We do not blame thee elder World, nor really separate ourselves from thee,( Would the son separate himself from the father?)
chapter-101	And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
chapter-101	But that she s left them all-- and here?
chapter-101	None separate from thee-- henceforth One only, we and thou,( For the blood of the children, what is it, only the blood maternal?
chapter-101	Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
chapter-101	To introduce the stranger,( what else indeed do I live to chant for?)
chapter-101	can I believe then, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her?
chapter-129	is that a wreck?
chapter-129	is the red signal flaring?)
chapter-133	Is the house shut?
chapter-133	is the master away?
chapter-134	A Hand- Mirror Hold it up sternly-- see this it sends back,( who is it?
chapter-134	is it you?)
chapter-140	so sad, recurring-- What good amid these, O me, O life?
chapter-114	( Who are you?
chapter-114	I give nothing as duties, What others give as duties I give as living impulses,( Shall I give the hearts action as a duty?)
chapter-114	Let others dispose of questions, I dispose of nothing, I arouse unanswerable questions, Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
chapter-114	What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
chapter-114	Will you turn aside all your life?
chapter-114	and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
chapter-114	will you grub and chatter all your life?
chapter-120	( said the boys soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing?
chapter-120	Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?
chapter-120	What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
chapter-120	What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
chapter-120	do I not see my love fluttering out among the breakers?
chapter-120	or is it really to me?
chapter-143	why to advertise for them?
chapter-107	4 These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,( If they did not echo the phrases of souls what were they then?
chapter-107	A Song of the Rolling Earth 1 A song of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines?
chapter-107	If they had not reference to you in especial what were they then?)
chapter-107	To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I?
chapter-107	Were you thinking that those were the words, those delicious sounds out of your friends mouths?
chapter-107	Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
chapter-107	Will you squat and stifle there?)
chapter-107	those curves, angles, dots?
chapter-087	3 What do you hear Walt Whitman?
chapter-087	4 What do you see Walt Whitman?
chapter-087	What are the mountains calld that rise so high in the mists?
chapter-087	What climes?
chapter-087	What myriads of dwellings are they filld with dwellers?
chapter-087	What rivers are these?
chapter-087	What waves and soils exuding?
chapter-087	What widens within you Walt Whitman?
chapter-087	Who are the girls?
chapter-087	Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each others necks?
chapter-087	Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
chapter-087	Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
chapter-087	what forests and fruits are these?
chapter-087	what persons and cities are here?
chapter-087	who are the married women?
chapter-091	5 What is it then between us?
chapter-091	8 Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast- hemmd Manhattan?
chapter-091	River and sunset and scallop- edgd waves of flood- tide?
chapter-091	The sea- gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay- boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?
chapter-091	We understand then do we not?
chapter-091	What I promisd without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
chapter-091	What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as approach?
chapter-091	What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face?
chapter-091	What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
chapter-091	What the study could not teach-- what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplishd, is it not?
chapter-091	Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
chapter-091	Who knows but I am enjoying this?
chapter-091	Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you can not see me?
chapter-091	Who was to know what should come home to me?
chapter-097	Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball- room and the dancers?
chapter-097	Joy of the glad light- beaming day, joy of the wide- breathd games?
chapter-097	Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
chapter-097	Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face?
chapter-097	Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
chapter-097	Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bowd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
chapter-097	Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
chapter-097	Knowist thou the excellent joys of youth?
chapter-097	Knowist thou the joys of pensive thought?
chapter-097	Prophetic joys of better, loftier loves ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?
chapter-097	The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?
chapter-097	What attractions are these beyond any before?
chapter-097	What beauty is this that descends upon me and rises out of me?
chapter-097	what bloom more than the bloom of youth?
chapter-132	But there is one thing that belongs here-- shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
chapter-132	Does the ague convulse your limbs?
chapter-132	Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
chapter-132	What troubles you Yankee phantoms?
chapter-132	Worse and worse-- cant you stand it?
chapter-132	are you retreating?
chapter-132	do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
chapter-132	what is all this chattering of bare gums?
chapter-111	Are there some of us to droop and die?
chapter-111	Come my tan- faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols?
chapter-111	Do the corpulent sleepers sleep?
chapter-111	Do the feasters gluttonous feast?
chapter-111	Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
chapter-111	Has the night descended?
chapter-111	Have the elder races halted?
chapter-111	Was the road of late so toilsome?
chapter-111	did we stop discouraged nodding on our way?
chapter-111	has the hour come?
chapter-111	have they lockd and bolted doors?
chapter-111	have you your sharp- edged axes?
chapter-099	( Whom have you slaughterd lately European headsman?
chapter-099	Do you think a great city endures?
chapter-099	Or a teeming manufacturing state?
chapter-099	Or hotels of granite and iron?
chapter-099	What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute- books, now?
chapter-099	What do you think endures?
chapter-099	What is your money- making now?
chapter-099	What is your respectability now?
chapter-099	Where are your cavils about the soul now?
chapter-099	Where are your jibes of being now?
chapter-099	Whose is that blood upon you so wet and sticky?)
chapter-099	or a prepared constitution?
chapter-099	or any chef- duvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
chapter-099	or the best built steamships?
chapter-099	what can it do now?
chapter-155	Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?
chapter-155	These eager business aims-- books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness?
chapter-158	Forms, colors, densities, odors-- what is it in me that corresponds with them?
chapter-158	Locations and Times Locations and times-- what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
chapter-168	Then 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?
chapter-168	When you yourself forever provide to defend me?
chapter-160	Are those really Congressmen?
chapter-160	To The States[ To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad] Why reclining, interrogating?
chapter-160	What deepening twilight- scum floating atop of the waters, Who are they as bats and night- dogs askant in the capitol?
chapter-160	are those the great Judges?
chapter-160	is that the President?
chapter-160	why myself and all drowsing?
chapter-164	Over the traffic of cities-- over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses?
chapter-164	Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?
chapter-164	Would the talkers be talking?
chapter-164	no sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers bargains by day-- no brokers or speculators-- would they continue?
chapter-164	would the singer attempt to sing?
chapter-175	Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)
chapter-167	Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
chapter-167	What, to passions I witness around me to- day?
chapter-167	What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
chapter-167	was the sea risen?
chapter-178	Then to the second I step-- and who are you my child and darling?
chapter-178	Who are you my dear comrade?
chapter-178	Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?
chapter-166	And what does it say to me all the while?
chapter-166	Child: Father what is that in the sky beckoning to me with long finger?
chapter-166	With passions of demons, slaughter, premature death?
chapter-166	what are you?
chapter-170	And is this the ground Washington trod?
chapter-170	And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he crossd, As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs?
chapter-170	Do you hear the clank of the muskets?
chapter-170	Who do you think that was marching steadily sternly confronting death?
chapter-170	Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
chapter-170	Why what comes over you now old man?
chapter-181	And sullen hymns of defeat?
chapter-181	said I to myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
chapter-089	( I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;) What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
chapter-089	Do you know the talk of those turning eye- balls?
chapter-089	Do you say I am already prepared, I am well- beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
chapter-089	Do you say Venture not-- if you leave me you are lost?
chapter-089	Have the past struggles succeeded?
chapter-089	Here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashiond, it is apropos; Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
chapter-089	I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
chapter-089	Nature?
chapter-089	O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me?
chapter-089	Only the kernel of every object nourishes; Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
chapter-089	Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
chapter-089	What gives me to be free to a womans and mans good- will?
chapter-089	What has succeeded?
chapter-089	What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
chapter-089	What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
chapter-089	Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?
chapter-089	Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
chapter-089	Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
chapter-089	Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
chapter-089	these thoughts in the darkness why are they?
chapter-089	what gives them to be free to mine?
chapter-089	will you come travel with me?
chapter-089	your nation?
chapter-089	yourself?
chapter-182	What stays with you latest and deepest?
chapter-182	of curious panics, Of hard- fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
chapter-182	the 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?
chapter-186	( Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
chapter-186	Or by an agreement on a paper?
chapter-186	or by arms?
chapter-189	Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
chapter-189	Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly- white and turband head, and bare bony feet?
chapter-189	What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
chapter-189	Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?
chapter-189	Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
chapter-199	Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
chapter-199	Did you seek the civilians peaceful and languishing rhymes?
chapter-199	To a Certain Civilian Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
chapter-206	10 O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
chapter-206	11 O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?
chapter-206	And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
chapter-206	And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
chapter-206	And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls, To adorn the burial- house of him I love?
chapter-206	Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
chapter-215	Askd room those flushd immortal ranks, the first forth- stepping armies?
chapter-216	Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
chapter-220	Did we think victory great?
chapter-221	Are those billions of men really gone?
chapter-221	Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
chapter-221	Did they achieve nothing for good for themselves?
chapter-221	Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
chapter-105	5 Will the whole come back then?
chapter-105	6 Will you seek afar off?
chapter-105	All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,( Did you think it was in the white or gray stone?
chapter-105	Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking- glass?
chapter-105	Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen soul?
chapter-105	Have you reckond that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
chapter-105	Have you reckond them for your trade or farm- work?
chapter-105	Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
chapter-105	Is it you then that thought yourself less?
chapter-105	Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
chapter-105	Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
chapter-105	Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
chapter-105	Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
chapter-105	Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
chapter-105	Or the rich better off than you?
chapter-105	Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
chapter-105	Or to achieve yourself a position?
chapter-105	Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
chapter-105	Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
chapter-105	Were all educations practical and ornamental well displayd out of me, what would it amount to?
chapter-105	Why what have you thought of yourself?
chapter-105	Will we rate our cash and business high?
chapter-105	is there nothing greater or more?
chapter-105	or for the profits of your store?
chapter-105	or the educated wiser than you?
chapter-105	or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
chapter-105	or to fill a gentlemans leisure, or a ladys leisure?
chapter-222	Did you guess any thing lived only its moment?
chapter-224	and what is this in it and from it?
chapter-225	Outlines for a Tomb[ G. P., Buried 1870] 1 What may we chant, O thou within this tomb?
chapter-225	What tablets, outlines, hang for thee, O millionnaire?
chapter-229	Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chaind with iron, or my ankles with iron?
chapter-229	You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs or obscene in your rooms, Who am I that I should call you more obscene than myself?
chapter-234	Miracles Why, who makes much of a miracle?
chapter-219	Are they not continually putting distemperd corpses within you?
chapter-219	How can you be alive you growths of spring?
chapter-219	How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
chapter-219	Is not every continent workd over and over with sour dead?
chapter-219	O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
chapter-219	Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
chapter-219	Where have you disposed of their carcasses?
chapter-219	Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
chapter-230	And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
chapter-230	And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
chapter-230	And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
chapter-230	What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
chapter-230	What do you suppose creation is?
chapter-230	What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
chapter-236	To a Pupil Is reform needed?
chapter-236	do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
chapter-236	is it through you?
chapter-238	To you your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?
chapter-238	What Am I After All What am I after all but a child, pleasd with the sound of my own name?
chapter-227	2 O what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?
chapter-227	All waits for the right voices; Where is the practisd and perfect organ?
chapter-227	Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
chapter-227	Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
chapter-227	from physique?
chapter-227	from vigorous practice?
chapter-227	where is the developd soul?
chapter-241	Is it wonderful that I should be immortal?
chapter-241	Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
chapter-241	Who learns my lesson complete?
chapter-250	Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death; Here, do you know this?
chapter-249	( the ultimate human problem never solving,) The gift of perfect women fit for thee-- what if that gift of gifts thou lackest?
chapter-249	The mothers fit for thee?
chapter-249	The towering feminine of thee?
chapter-249	the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee?
chapter-246	And you America, Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
chapter-246	Only a lot of boys and girls?
chapter-246	Only a public school?
chapter-246	Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?
chapter-246	The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
chapter-253	Hearest those shouts of a conquering army?
chapter-253	seest thou in powder- smoke the banners torn but flying?
chapter-253	the rout of the baffled?
chapter-257	And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
chapter-257	Is it the prophets thought I speak, or am I raving?
chapter-257	What do I know of life?
chapter-257	what of myself?
chapter-265	the measureless waters of human tears?)
chapter-266	what were God?)
chapter-271	When shows break up what but Ones- Self is sure?
chapter-273	Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
chapter-273	What Ship Puzzled at Sea What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?
chapter-259	And the murderd person, how does he sleep?
chapter-259	What are you doing you ruffianly red- trickled waves?
chapter-259	Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
chapter-259	Will you kill the courageous giant?
chapter-259	already what was it touchd me?
chapter-259	will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
chapter-278	Are souls drownd and destroyd so?
chapter-278	Is only matter triumphant?
chapter-287	2 Do you suppose I could be content with all if I thought them their own finale?
chapter-287	3 Features of my equals would you trick me with your creasd and cadaverous march?
chapter-292	Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire?
chapter-292	Where has faild a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
chapter-292	or in the meat and blood?
chapter-292	or in the spirit of man?
chapter-296	Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
chapter-299	Nor think we forget thee maternal; Lagdst thou so long?
chapter-299	shall the clouds close again upon thee?
chapter-300	By Broad Potomacs Shore By broad Potomacs shore, again old tongue,( Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?)
chapter-305	The lyrists measurd beat, the wrought- out temples grace-- column and polishd arch forgot?
chapter-305	To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
chapter-306	Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?
chapter-309	Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?
chapter-309	must all then amount to but this?
chapter-262	Do you suspect death?
chapter-262	Have you dreaded these earth- beetles?
chapter-262	Have you feard the future would be nothing to you?
chapter-262	Have you guessd you yourself would not continue?
chapter-262	Is to- day nothing?
chapter-262	Or with your mother and sisters?
chapter-262	To think how much pleasure there is, Do you enjoy yourself in the city?
chapter-262	Your farm, profits, crops-- to think how engrossd you are, To think there will still be farms, profits, crops, yet for you of what avail?
chapter-262	if I were to suspect death I should die now, Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well- suited toward annihilation?
chapter-262	is the beginningless past nothing?
chapter-262	or engaged in business?
chapter-262	or in womanly housework?
chapter-262	or planning a nomination and election?
chapter-262	or the beautiful maternal cares?
chapter-262	or with your wife and family?
chapter-317	is it too only halting awhile, Till night and sleep pass over?)
chapter-310	Are all nations communing?
chapter-310	Is humanity forming en- masse?
chapter-310	are the acts suitable to them closed?)
chapter-310	is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
chapter-322	And what are those of life but for Death?
chapter-322	Portals What are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
chapter-325	Camerado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man,( Is it night?
chapter-325	Is there a single final farewell?
chapter-325	What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
chapter-325	are we here together alone?)
chapter-294	Excelsior Who has gone farthest?
chapter-294	O I think it is I-- I think no one was ever happier than I, And who has lavishd all?
chapter-294	for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamourd body than mine, And who thinks the amplest thoughts?
chapter-294	for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends, And who possesses a perfect and enamourd body?
chapter-294	for I lavish constantly the best I have, And who proudest?
chapter-294	for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive-- for I am the son of the brawny and tall- topt city, And who has been bold and true?
chapter-294	for I would be more cautious, And who has been happiest?
chapter-294	for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe, And who benevolent?
chapter-294	for I would be the most just person of the earth, And who most cautious?
chapter-294	for I would go farther, And who has been just?
chapter-294	for I would show more benevolence than all the rest, And who has receivd the love of the most friends?
chapter-294	for I would surround those thoughts, And who has made hymns fit for the earth?
chapter-335	My Canary Bird Did we count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books, Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
chapter-336	Or haply cut me short for good?
chapter-336	Or leave me here as now, Dull, parrot- like and old, with crackd voice harping, screeching?
chapter-336	Or placid skies and sun?
chapter-336	Queries to My Seventieth Year Approaching, nearing, curious, Thou dim, uncertain spectre-- bringest thou life or death?
chapter-336	Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
chapter-336	Wilt stir the waters yet?
chapter-359	Life Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;( Have former armies faild?
chapter-346	What central heart-- and you the pulse-- vivifies all?
chapter-346	What subtle indirection and significance in you?
chapter-346	what Capellas?
chapter-346	what Sirius?
chapter-346	what boundless aggregate of all?
chapter-346	what clue to all in you?
chapter-346	what fluid, vast identity, Holding the universe with all its parts as one-- as sailing in a ship?
chapter-367	The Voice of the Rain And who art thou?
chapter-028	20 Who goes there?
chapter-028	27 To be in any form, what is that?
chapter-028	28 Is this then a touch?
chapter-028	35 Would you hear of an old- time sea- fight?
chapter-028	39 The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
chapter-028	6 A child said What is the grass?
chapter-028	7 Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
chapter-028	And what do you think has become of the women and children?
chapter-028	Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of articulation, Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
chapter-028	Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
chapter-028	Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
chapter-028	Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be workd over and rectified?
chapter-028	Do I astonish more than they?
chapter-028	Do I contradict myself?
chapter-028	Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
chapter-028	Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
chapter-028	Do you take it I would astonish?
chapter-028	Does the daylight astonish?
chapter-028	Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
chapter-028	Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
chapter-028	Have you outstript the rest?
chapter-028	Have you practisd so long to learn to read?
chapter-028	Have you reckond a thousand acres much?
chapter-028	I am he attesting sympathy,( Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
chapter-028	I but use you a minute, then I resign you, stallion, Why do I need your paces when I myself out- gallop them?
chapter-028	I hear the traind soprano( what work with hers is this?)
chapter-028	I heard what was said of the universe, Heard it and heard it of several thousand years; It is middling well as far as it goes-- but is that all?
chapter-028	I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
chapter-028	I wonder where they get those tokens, Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
chapter-028	If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
chapter-028	In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture-- but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
chapter-028	Iowa, Oregon, California?
chapter-028	Is he from the Mississippi country?
chapter-028	Is he some Southwesterner raisd out- doors?
chapter-028	Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
chapter-028	Our frigate takes fire, The other asks if we demand quarter?
chapter-028	Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
chapter-028	Sermons, creeds, theology-- but the fathomless human brain, And what is reason?
chapter-028	The black ship maild with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets-- but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
chapter-028	The clock indicates the moment-- but what does eternity indicate?
chapter-028	The mountains?
chapter-028	The saints and sages in history-- but you yourself?
chapter-028	The sky up there-- yet here or next door, or across the way?
chapter-028	The well- taken photographs-- but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
chapter-028	Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
chapter-028	What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
chapter-028	What do you think has become of the young and old men?
chapter-028	What is a man anyhow?
chapter-028	Where are you off to, lady?
chapter-028	Which of the young men does she like the best?
chapter-028	Who has done his days work?
chapter-028	Who wishes to walk with me?
chapter-028	Why should I pray?
chapter-028	Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
chapter-028	Will you speak before I am gone?
chapter-028	Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
chapter-028	and what is life?
chapter-028	and what is love?
chapter-028	are you the President?
chapter-028	does the early redstart twittering through the woods?
chapter-028	fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?
chapter-028	hankering, gross, mystical, nude; How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
chapter-028	have you reckond the earth much?
chapter-028	is he Kanadian?
chapter-028	or sailor from the sea?
chapter-028	prairie- life, bush- life?
chapter-028	what am I?
chapter-028	what are you doing?
chapter-028	what are you?
chapter-028	what have you to confide to me?
chapter-028	who will soonest be through with his supper?
chapter-028	why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
chapter-028	will you prove already too late?
chapter-028	you seem to look for something at my hands, Say, old top- knot, what do you want?
chapter-255	( Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes, Is the deferment long?
chapter-255	Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
chapter-255	And who art thou sad shade?
chapter-255	Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?
chapter-255	Disportest thou on waters such as those?
chapter-255	For others sake to suffer all?
chapter-255	For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
chapter-255	Greater than stars or suns, Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth; What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
chapter-255	Have we not darkend and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
chapter-255	Have we not groveld here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
chapter-255	Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
chapter-255	Lies the seed unreckd for centuries in the ground?
chapter-255	Lo, soul, seest thou not Gods purpose from the first?
chapter-255	O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?
chapter-255	Soundest below the Sanscrit and the Vedas?
chapter-255	Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)
chapter-255	What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
chapter-255	What cheerful willingness for others sake to give up all?
chapter-255	What dreams of the ideal?
chapter-255	What is this earth to our affections?
chapter-255	Who Justify these restless explorations?
chapter-255	Who bind it to us?
chapter-255	Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
chapter-255	and Whither O mocking life?
chapter-255	are they not all the seas of God?
chapter-255	bitter the slander, poverty, death?
chapter-255	what is this separate Nature so unnatural?
chapter-255	what plans of purity, perfection, strength?
chapter-371	Have you not learnd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?
chapter-371	Stronger Lessons Have you learnd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
chapter-371	or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
chapter-373	What of the future?)
chapter-377	( scaly and bare, like eagles talons,) But haply for some sunny day( who knows?)
chapter-387	Lingering Last Drops And whence and why come you?
chapter-392	Are the colors, vitalities, dead?
chapter-392	Hast thou then faded?
chapter-392	Is the odor exhaled?
chapter-395	( Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?)
chapter-395	Is there no shot left, For all thy affectations, lisps, scorns, manifold silliness?
chapter-395	Nor for myself-- my own rebellious self in thee?
chapter-395	To the Pending Year Have I no weapon- word for thee-- some message brief and fierce?
chapter-400	Can I not know, identify thee?
chapter-400	Hast thou no soul?
chapter-400	Laws, all Astronomys last refinement?
chapter-413	The Unexpressd How dare one say it?
chapter-414	of what amount without thee?)
chapter-408	Has the estray wanderd far?
chapter-408	Is the reason- why strangely hidden?
chapter-408	Would you know the dissatisfaction?
chapter-408	Would you sound below the restless ocean of the entire world?
chapter-408	the invisible need of every seed?
chapter-408	the urge and spur of every life; The something never stilld-- never entirely gone?
chapter-211	( Say O Mother, have I not to your thought been faithful?
chapter-211	12 Are you he who would assume a place to teach or be a poet here in the States?
chapter-211	3 Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
chapter-211	Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
chapter-211	Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life?
chapter-211	Are you faithful to things?
chapter-211	Are you not of some coterie?
chapter-211	Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions?
chapter-211	Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
chapter-211	Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
chapter-211	Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity?
chapter-211	Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
chapter-211	Does it answer universal needs?
chapter-211	Does it meet modern discoveries, calibres, facts, face to face?
chapter-211	Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
chapter-211	Does it sound with trumpet- voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?
chapter-211	Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies lands?
chapter-211	Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
chapter-211	Have real employments contributed to it?
chapter-211	Have you learnd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land?
chapter-211	Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
chapter-211	Have you possessd yourself of the Federal Constitution?
chapter-211	Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
chapter-211	Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
chapter-211	Have you too the old ever- fresh forbearance and impartiality?
chapter-211	Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
chapter-211	I am he who walks the States with a barbd tongue, questioning every one I meet, Who are you that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
chapter-211	Is it not a mere tale?
chapter-211	Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
chapter-211	Is it uniform with my country?
chapter-211	O lands, would you be freer than all that has ever been before?
chapter-211	These States, what are they except myself?
chapter-211	What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
chapter-211	What is this you bring my America?
chapter-211	What mocking and scornful negligence?
chapter-211	Who are you indeed who would talk or sing to America?
chapter-211	Who are you that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
chapter-211	Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
chapter-211	a prettiness?--Is the good old cause in it?
chapter-211	a rhyme?
chapter-211	after death you shall be superb, Justice, health, self- esteem, clear the way with irresistible power; How dare you place any thing before a man?
chapter-211	and for the errant?
chapter-211	animating now to life itself?
chapter-211	are you really of the whole People?
chapter-211	are you very strong?
chapter-211	do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
chapter-211	for the last- born?
chapter-211	its substratums and objects?
chapter-211	little and big?
chapter-211	original makers, not mere amanuenses?
chapter-211	some school or mere religion?
chapter-211	will it improve manners?