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.

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38889	Are they conscious of our reverent tread on the turf above them, of our low words of remembrance and affection?
38889	Do they care that we have come from far to bend over them here?
38889	Do they no longer love this once beloved spot?
38889	Do they not rejoice in the beauty of this summer day and the sunshine that falls upon their windowless palace?
38889	Or have they ceased from all ken or care for earthly things?
38889	The book was published anonymously, and Sanborn says that when inquiry was made,"Who is the author of''Nature?''"
36305	( which he pronounced_ Oy?
36305	Are they not all the seas of God?
36305	Ay?"
36305	Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
36305	Is it a dream?
36305	Oy?_), and which, slightly inflected to answer various purposes, served him for all response.
36305	Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm, Waking renew''d on thy prodigious pinions,( Burst the wild storm?
36305	When addressed, he only replied with the brief monosyllable"Ay?
36305	have you your sharpedged axes?
31027	''Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?''
31027	--_Ernest Rhys_ I loaf and invite my soul And what do I feel?
31027	--_Robert Buchanan_ Darkness and death?
31027	And gained the fair celestial shores at last, Still worship''st thou the Ocean?
31027	And still goes one, saying,"What will ye give me, and I will deliver this man unto you?"
31027	By that immortal ocean now what cheer?
31027	Can he endure that the female form should stand thus in a poem, disrobed, unveiled, bathed in erotic splendor?
31027	Do crews patrol and save the same as here?
31027	For what may well be said of prophets, when A world that''s wicked comes to call them good?
31027	I loaf and invite my soul And what do I hear?
31027	I loaf and invite my soul And what do I see?
31027	II What were these poems which excited such vitriolic epithets?
31027	IV Do you not see O my brothers and sisters?
31027	The New York Daily Times( 1856) asks:"What Centaur have we here, half man, half beast, neighing defiance to all the world?
31027	This to me, but what to the Secretary?
31027	What has genius, spirit of the absolute and the eternal, to do with the definitions of position, or conventionalities, or the age?
31027	What have we now?
31027	What spittle of critic epithets stains all here?
31027	What though thy sounding song be roughly set?
31027	Who is this arrogant young man who proclaims himself the Poet of the time, and who roots like a pig among a rotten garbage of licentious thoughts?"
31027	Would you have a text- book of democracy?
34417	***** Have you thought there could be but a single supreme?
34417	And is this all?
34417	And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
34417	Are the motives high and noble, or low and infamous?
34417	Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
34417	Do you know what it is?
34417	Do you understand it?
34417	Have you ever read the account of the stage- driver''s funeral?
34417	He describes the ideal American citizen-- the one who Says indifferently and alike"How are you, friend?"
34417	He is one of Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and Governors, as to say"Who are you?"
34417	If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
34417	Is death the end?
34417	Is it for good or evil?
34417	Is rhyme a necessary part of poetry?
34417	Is there anything in the wide universe more wonderful than this?
34417	The respectable prudes and pedagogues sound the alarm, and cry, or rather screech:"Is this a book for a young person?"
34417	This poet has asked of us this question: What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
34417	WHAT IS POETRY?
34417	What is this dust-- this womb?
34417	Which way does the great stream tend?
34417	Will the forthgoer be lost, and forever?
34417	Would you hear of an old- time sea fight?
34417	Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
34417	must all then amount to but this?
42281	''Are those damn fools out there this afternoon?'' 42281 But have n''t you said,"I interjected,"that Mr. Bonsall was a friend of Whitman?"
42281	Do you want to see where the old guy died?
42281	Shall I tell you what we respectable citizens of Camden think of him? 42281 The Whitman House?"
42281	The day before he died I came in the morning and asked him,''How do you feel?'' 42281 Who was Whitman anyway?
42281	''Look here, Whitman,''he said,''why do n''t you become a useful citizen, like every one of us?
42281	( And ever after believed that Mrs. Davis had been cruelly maligned( but by whom?)
42281	A poet?
42281	But what for her?
42281	But what of Mrs. Davis when paint and oil were added to plaster and the other refuse pervading the parlors?
42281	But where?
42281	But who was to summon it?
42281	Did Mr. Whitman, in truth, have an accurate or an undeveloped knowledge of the cost of living?
42281	Does all this amuse you, Walt Whitman?
42281	Had he really forgotten it, or had he thought it a matter of too little importance to mention?
42281	He was turned sixty- three times in the last twenty- four hours; how is that for business?
42281	How could the place be anything but cold when it was heated only by the occasional flame of an oil lamp?
42281	Is this how the greatest nation honors its greatest literary genius?
42281	May I tell you about your brain, which is at present in the possession of the Anthropometric Society?
42281	Mr. Whitman looked around the table as if seeking something, and on being asked,"Is there anything you want, Walt?"
42281	She had mentioned the urgent need of further repairs( and when were they not needed in this little rookery?)
42281	She had visibly changed; how could it be otherwise?
42281	The lyrist''s measur''d beat, the wrought- out temple''s grace-- column and polish''d arch forgot?
42281	The receipted bills she had carefully filed away, but what proof had she that they had been met with her own money?
42281	To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
42281	Understanding this woman as he did,--as he must have done,--had he resolved to have her devote herself to him?
42281	What could the nurse do?
42281	What does it all mean?"
42281	What does it matter to you who is sleeping now in the room where you died, who is living now in the house where you lived, loved and sang?
42281	What would the Mickle Street house be without her?
42281	When he observed me, he drew up with great difficulty and called out,''Hello, Tom, ai n''t he splendid?''
42281	When shows break up what but One''s- Self is sure?
42281	Where is Frank?''
42281	Whitman, in the name of common sense what has come over you?
42281	Whitman?"
42281	Would it interest you, Walt Whitman, to know about your last minutes on earth, when you lay unconscious in a coma?
42281	[_ A Prairie Sunset_] Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man;( Have former armies fail''d?
42281	_ Take her place!_ Was there a woman upon earth who could or would do this?
56536	How does your Satan get work to do,the latter would ask,"if God doeth all?"
56536	So you like it, do you?
56536	Tri- InsulaOriginally: of a new island republic of New York?
56536	Who learns my lesson complete?
56536	6d._= Zimmern( Antonia).= WHAT DO WE KNOW CONCERNING ELECTRICITY?
56536	And if there is a purpose, and if there is a God, what is it all for?
56536	And what possible value has all her material development unless it be accompanied by a corresponding development of soul?
56536	Are all nations communing?
56536	Are they then to lose individual identity?
56536	Are we to dismiss it as the shallow utterance of a callous- hearted, healthy- bodied, complacent American, deliberately blind to the world''s tragedy?
56536	But if this woman loved him to the uttermost, why did he leave her?
56536	But who emancipated him?
56536	But, it may be asked, did he aim at"saving souls for Christ"?
56536	Can I not know, identify thee?
56536	Can there possibly be any connection between this style of composition and the larger consciousness of which he had experience?
56536	Do they bring us material for some new law of rhythm or metre?
56536	Do they give us a new art- form?
56536	Do you see death, and the approach of death?
56536	Do you see that lost character?--Do you see decay, consumption, rum- drinking, dropsy, fever, mortal cancer or inflammation?
56536	Does_ Leaves of Grass_ awake some quality of the Soul which answers neither to the words of Tennyson nor Browning, Emerson nor Carlyle?
56536	Except upon the field of politics, what single thing of moral value has she originated?
56536	For who will willingly begin over again the task of self- discovery?
56536	Had he caused a letter to be sent them since he got here in Washington?
56536	Hast thou no soul?
56536	He turned to Ingersoll, demanding,"Unless there is a definite object for it all, what, in God''s name, is it all for?"
56536	How are we to sum up these pages, and figure out what it is they come to?
56536	Is humanity forming en- masse?
56536	Is not he himself the fellow and equal of the supreme Beings, of the Night, the Earth, and the Sea?
56536	Is then America also a symbol?
56536	Is there going to be but one heart to the globe?
56536	Law''s, all Astronomy''s last refinement?
56536	May not the former be the natural rhythm for wit and the latter for imagination?
56536	May we not suppose it was a passionate and noble woman who opened the gates for him and showed him himself in the divine mirror of her love?
56536	Must we nourish this giant, whose unruly strength is for ever threatening to tear in pieces the unity of the self?
56536	Of what then was the Earth a symbol to Whitman''s sight?
56536	On these things we are at one; but how are we most wisely and surely to direct others on the road to self- realisation?
56536	Or shall we say he saw the Madonna in Venus, as Botticelli did?
56536	Poetry is the utterance of an inspired emotion; but an emotion inspired by what?
56536	The attack roused Whitman to snap out,"Is n''t he the damnedest simulacrum?"
56536	The future shall be his proof: will his song remain at her heart?
56536	The question obtrudes, was Walt becoming"respectable"?
56536	Thought you, greatness was to ripen for you like a pear?
56536	Traubel is a first draft for a novel(?)
56536	What are we to say of these?
56536	What party is there to- day, either in England or America, which dares to hold up for achievement any programme of heroism?
56536	What record has he left of those women and their children, whose relation to himself must have bulked so largely in the world of his soul?
56536	What then is this emotion which Whitman alone, or in special measure, evokes?
56536	Where now was the old exaltation of spirit; where the eager longing for Divine adventure with which hitherto he had always contemplated death?
56536	Who has not felt the liberating joy of the autumn gales?
56536	Why did he allow the foulest of reproaches to blacken that whitest of all reputations, a Southern lady''s virtue?
56536	Why had he not been here these months past, nursing and caring for one who had been dearer to him than his father?
56536	Will it awaken, century after century, the divine unrest, and as it were, create new souls forever?
56536	With grave emphasis he pronounced his text:"What is the chief end of man?"
56536	[ 302] Is this another of those places where the moralist begs to take his leave of the mystic?
56536	[ 416] Where others gave their lives, who was he to hold back anything of his?
56536	[ said Whitman]...."I was informed in Camden that there were_ two_ Southern(?)
56536	or of all Divine personality?
56536	or, if you will, a new kind of poetry?
56536	oy?"
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?
35725	And how are Mat''s girls?
35725	Any news from Han?
35725	Are the soldiers still on Fort Greene?
35725	Cases enough, do I say?
35725	Dear brother Jeff, how are you, and how is Matty, and how the dear little girls?
35725	Dear mother, have you got over all that distress and sickness in your head?
35725	Dear mother, how are you nowadays?
35725	Did he write you one about the same time?
35725	Did you hear from Mary''s Fanny since?
35725	Did you send my last letter to Han?
35725	Do you feel quite well again?
35725	Do you then think of getting new apartments, after the 1st of May?
35725	Does he get any good from that treatment with the baths, etc.?
35725	Does it affect your head like it did?
35725	Fred McReady is coming home very soon on furlough-- have any of the soldiers called on you?
35725	Has Andrew gone?
35725	Has she got all over it?
35725	Have you heard anything from George or Han?
35725	Have you heard anything from Mary or Han lately?
35725	Have you heard from sister Han?
35725	How are the Browns?
35725	How could any one writing in cold blood, to- day, hope to add words of any value to those he wrote then?
35725	How does Mat get along, and how little Sis and all?
35725	How is California?
35725	How is dear sister Mat, and how is Miss Mannahatta, and little Black Head?
35725	I got a letter from Mrs. Price this morning-- does Emmy ever come to see you?
35725	I had spells of deathly faintness and bad trouble in my head too, and sore throat( quite a little budget, ai n''t they?)
35725	I have not heard anything since from George-- have you heard anything further?
35725	I said to a lady who was looking with me,"Who can see that man without losing all wish to be sharp upon him personally?"
35725	I said,"What is it, my dear?
35725	I said,"Why, Oscar, do n''t you think you will get well?"
35725	Is Helen home and well?
35725	Is Probasco still in the store in N. Y.?
35725	Is she as good and interesting as she was six months ago?
35725	Is the little baby still hearty?
35725	It has been awful hot here now for twenty- one days; ai n''t that a spell of weather?
35725	Mat, do you go any to the Opera now?
35725	Matty, my dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725	Matty, my dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725	McReady yet, and do n''t they hear whether the 51st is near Nicholasville, Kentucky, yet?
35725	Mother, I believe I told you I had written to Mrs. Price-- do you see Emma?
35725	Mother, I have not heard from George since, have you?
35725	Mother, I hope you take things easy, do n''t you?
35725	Mother, I should like to hear how you are yourself-- has your cold left you, and do you feel better?
35725	Mother, I suppose you got my letter written Tuesday last, 29th March, did you not?
35725	Mother, did a Mr. Howell call on you?
35725	Mother, do any of the soldiers I see here from Brooklyn or New York ever call upon you?
35725	Mother, do n''t you miss_ Walt_ loafing around, and carting himself off to New York toward the latter part of every afternoon?
35725	Mother, do you ever hear from Mary?
35725	Mother, do you get your letters now next morning, as you ought?
35725	Mother, do you hear anything from George?
35725	Mother, do you recollect what I wrote last summer about throat diseases, when Andrew was first pretty bad?
35725	Mother, have you heard any further about Han?
35725	Mother, have you heard anything from Han since, or from Mary''s folks?
35725	Mother, have you heard anything from Han?
35725	Mother, have you heard anything from Han?
35725	Mother, have you heard anything whether the 51st went on with Burnside, or did they remain as a reserve in Kentucky?
35725	Mother, have you heard anything?
35725	Mother, how is Andrew?
35725	Mother, how is Eddy getting along?
35725	Mother, is George''s trunk home and of no use there?
35725	Mother, was it Will Brown sent me those?
35725	Mother, 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?
35725	Mother, you have a comfortable time as much as you can, and get a steak occasionally, wo n''t you?
35725	O Matty, I have just thought of you-- dear sister, how are you getting along?
35725	O mother, who do you think I got a letter from, two or three days ago?
35725	So, Mannahatta, you tear Uncle George''s letters, do you?
35725	Was my last name signed at the bottom of it?
35725	We 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?
35725	Well, mother, I should like to know all the domestic affairs at home; do n''t you have the usual things eating, etc.?
35725	Well, mother, how are you getting along home?--how do you feel in health these days, dear mother?
35725	Well, mother, how do things go on with you all?
35725	Well, mother, we have commenced on another summer, and what it will bring forth who can tell?
35725	What have you heard from Mary and her family, anything?
35725	_ Times_ of Sunday, Oct. 4?
35725	_ Times_ of last Sunday-- did you see it?
35725	and Jess, is he about the same?
35725	and how is your wrist and arm, mother?
35725	and what is she doing now?
35725	did the money come?
35725	do you want anything?"
12933	And did Mr. Gladstone go?
12933	And did Oliver Goldsmith really play his harp in this very room?
12933	And do you never admit visitors, even to the grounds?
12933	And so you are an alien?
12933	And what did you tell him?
12933	Ay, mon, but ai n''t ut a big un?
12933	Aye, you are a gentleman-- and about burying folks in churches?
12933	But did Shakespeare run away?
12933	But visitors do come?
12933	Can you tell me how far it is to Brantwood?
12933	Can you tell me where Mr. Whitman lives?
12933	Did George Eliot live here?
12933	Did you visit Carlyle''s''ouse?
12933	Do we use them? 12933 Do you believe in cremation, sir?"
12933	Have ye a penny, I do n''t know?
12933	He might know all about one woman, and if he should regard her as a sample of all womankind, would he not make a great mistake?
12933	Heart of my heart, is this well done?
12933	How can any adversity come to him who hath a wife?
12933	Never mind wot I am, sir--''oo are you?
12933	Question, What is justice in Pigdom? 12933 Rheumatism?
12933	The Anxworks package-- I will not deceive you, Sweet; why should I?
12933	Together, I s''pose?
12933	Was what sarcasm?
12933	Well,said Hawkins,"what did he say to you?"
12933	What are you reading?
12933	What did I say-- really I have forgotten?
12933	What is your favorite book?
12933	Which boat do you want?
12933	Who?
12933	Would you like to become a telegraph- operator?
12933	You are twenty- five now? 12933 You mean Walt Whitman?"
12933	You speak of death as a matter of course-- you are not afraid to die?
12933	A policeman passed us running and called back,"I say, Hawkins, is that you?
12933	Alone?
12933	And did I want to buy a bull calf?
12933	And is n''t that so?
12933	And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-- Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?
12933	Are these remains of stately forests symbols of a race of men that, too, have passed away?
12933	Assertive?
12933	Besides, who was there to take up his pen?
12933	Brown?"
12933	But it is all good-- I accept it all and give thanks-- you have not forgotten my chant to death?"
12933	But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
12933	But who inspired Dorothy?
12933	But why should I tell about it here?
12933	Ca n''t you go with me?"
12933	Cawn''t ye hadmire''i m on that side of the wall as well as this?"
12933	Could it be possible that these rustics were poets?
12933	Dark Mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
12933	Did Mademoiselle Mars use it?
12933	Did you ever hear of him?"
12933	Do you know the scene?"
12933	Do you not know what books are to a child hungry for truth, that has no books?
12933	Does she protest, and find fault?
12933	Edison?"
12933	Edison?"
12933	Genius has its times of straying off into the infinite-- and then what is the good wife to do for companionship?
12933	Had Gavroche ever seen them?
12933	Have n''t you noticed that men of sixty have no clearer vision than men of forty?
12933	He answered back,"What t''ell is the matter with you fellows?"
12933	He brings to bear an energy on every subject he touches( and what subject has he not touched?)
12933	He evidently was acquainted with five different languages, and the range of his intellect was worldwide; but where did he get this vast erudition?
12933	Honeydew: Ay, Jarvis; but what will fill their mouths in the meantime?
12933	How can I get in?"
12933	How did she acquire this knowledge?
12933	How is any education acquired if not through effort prompted by desire?
12933	How?
12933	I did likewise, and was greeted with a resounding smack which surprised me a bit, but I managed to ask,"Did you run away?"
12933	I heard Old Walt chuckle behind me, talking incoherently to himself, and then he said,"You are wondering why I live in such a place as this?"
12933	I touched my hat and said,"Ah, excuse me, Mr. Falstaff, you are the bouncer?"
12933	In a voice full of defense the County Down watchman said:"Ah, now, and how did I know but that it was a forgery?
12933	Is it not too bad?
12933	Is not the child nearer to God than the man?
12933	Is not this enough?
12933	Is this much or little?
12933	Is this to his credit?
12933	Just below was the Stone pier and there stood Mrs. Gamp, and I heard her ask:"And which of all them smoking monsters is the Anxworks boat, I wonder?
12933	More than a thousand years before Christ, an Arab chief asked,"If a man die shall he live again?"
12933	Need I say that the girl who made the remark just quoted had drunk of life''s cup to the very lees?
12933	Next the public wanted to know about this thing--"What are you folks doing out there in that buckwheat town?"
12933	Of course, these girls are aware that we admire them-- how could they help it?
12933	Once they urged him to go with them to an exhibition at Kensington, but he smiled feebly as he lit his pipe and said,"An Art Exhibition?
12933	Philip asked the eunuch a needless question when he inquired,"Understandest thou what thou readest?"
12933	Proud?
12933	Say, did you know him?"
12933	So I put the question to him direct:"Did you see Buffalo Bill?"
12933	Stubborn?
12933	Then the preacher spoke and his voice was sorrowful:"Oh, but I made a botch of it-- was it sarcasm or was it not?"
12933	Then what have I done concerning which the public wishes to know?
12933	Then what?
12933	Then why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933	These things being true, and all the sentiments quoted coming from"good"but blindly zealous men, is it a wonder that the Artist is not understood?
12933	Tomorrow we go-- where?
12933	Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this: Why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933	WILLIAM M. THACKERAY TO MR. BROOKFIELD September 16, 1849 Have you read Dickens?
12933	Was ever a Jones so honored before?
12933	Was ever woman more honestly and better praised than Dorothy?
12933	Were the waters troubled in order that they might heal the people?
12933	What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?
12933	What bronze can equal the bronze of"Hamlet"?
12933	What can bronze or marble do for him?
12933	What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth''s perturbed soul?
12933	What do you mean by equity?
12933	What edifice can equal thought?
12933	What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as"Othello"?
12933	What is Pig Poetry?
12933	What is as indestructible as these:"The Tempest,""The Winter''s Tale,""Julius CÃ ¦ sar,""Coriolanus"?
12933	What is meant by''your share''?"
12933	What is the Whole Duty of Pigs?
12933	What monument sublimer than"Lear,"sterner than"The Merchant of Venice,"more dazzling than"Romeo and Juliet,"more amazing than"Richard III"?
12933	What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of"A Midsummer Night''s Dream"?
12933	When trouble, adversity or bewilderment comes to the homesick traveler in an American hotel, to whom can he turn for consolation?
12933	Where, one asks in amazement, did this remarkable man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work?
12933	Who can recount the innumerable biographies that begin thus:"In his youth, our subject had for his constant reading, Plutarch''s Lives, etc."?
12933	Who can tell?
12933	Who could harm the kind vagrant harper?
12933	Who made the Pig?
12933	Who wrote it?
12933	Whom did he ever hurt?
12933	Why did he not learn at the feet of Sir Thomas Lucy and write his own epitaph?
12933	Why, do n''t you know?
12933	Will this convey the thought?
12933	Would the author be so kind as to change it?
12933	Would they have been so great had they not suffered?
12933	Yet love is life and hate is death, so how can spite benefit?
12933	now, wot you want?"
12933	where the mob surges, cursed with idle curiosity to see the graves of kings and nobodies?
44973	Lovest thou me?
44973	Mamma, where is the sun to- day, While all this rain comes down?
44973	Oh, is not love eternal When once the heart be won? 44973 Still waiting, dear good grandma, for the blessed angel Death?"
44973	The day is placid in its going, To a lingering motion bound, Like a river in its flowing-- Can there be a softer sound?
44973	Who makes those white stones, you or God?
44973	''Tis true, she wished no monument To mark the place; But must she not be satisfied To see the space Thus blessed and open to the heart Of every race?
44973	***** You want to know my history, because I am so good?
44973	--_Wordsworth._ O rare, sweet summer day, Could''st thou not longer stay?
44973	Ah, kitty dear, who told you how To join thought, act, and sight?
44973	Ah, little girl Of flaxen curl, Who has not asked before This question o''er and o''er?
44973	Ah, little girl Of flaxen curl, Why doubt e''en mother''s word, Because of feelings stirred?
44973	Ah, who cares Sound a passion he shares With the angels?
44973	And I?
44973	And are we known in heaven?
44973	And is earth known in heaven?
44973	And is time marked in heaven?
44973	And the pleasures obtained with such fever intense Can find nowhere a vibrating chord?
44973	And what do I feel?
44973	And what do I hear?
44973	And what do I see?
44973	Are not such birthdays restful stepping stones, To aid the growing soul pick out the way To life eternal?
44973	But how, you ask, shall we each other know, So changed from what we were while here below, When, caged like birds, we longed and suffered so?
44973	But is it true she does not share A knowledge in God''s plan?
44973	But where''s my happy collie dog, My Rosa?
44973	But where''s my happy collie dog, My Rosa?
44973	But why should we bemoan this?
44973	But yet we cry,"O goddess high, Must thou thy wealth so share?
44973	But, O, how long must I so pray?
44973	By daily doing penance without fear, Or resting satisfied in deeds of worth?
44973	Can I dare hope to find e''en a small resting place Free from sin and all earthly allure?
44973	Chinchilla?
44973	Could otherwise Truth''s dazzling light be subject To mortal eyes?
44973	Could otherwise we enter The endless light, Beyond the shadowed circle Of mortal sight?
44973	Could we then see the better whence spirit arose?
44973	DOES IT PAY?
44973	Do sorrows press?
44973	Does he linger your way?"
44973	Has Love come?
44973	Have a fitting strength left to regain needed health For the life of a heavenly clime?
44973	He''d loved since, one or two, And-- well, what was a woman for, If not for man to woo?
44973	Her fur like chinchilla-- Her movements all grace-- Such a wise little face-- What kitty is like her?
44973	How can we thank thee for thy helpful cheer, O master- spirit of the priests of earth?
44973	How could he stop to calculate The size of such a thing; His only care was for the price-- Would one cent buy the ring?
44973	How do I love thee?
44973	I see in the smallest heaven''s loan Enough for content-- But is that release?
44973	IS THERE ANYTHING PURER?
44973	Imbued so long with human hopes and fears, Have they not claim to personality?
44973	Is life a farce?
44973	Is life a farce?
44973	Is love thine own?
44973	Is there anything purer On land or on sea, More laden with blessing For you or for me?
44973	Is there anything purer On land or on sea, More laden with comfort For you or for me?
44973	Is''t not his voice I hear, With comfort as of yore?
44973	Left me alone?
44973	Must I always look for sorrow On the morrow?
44973	Must I never have the hope That a life of larger scope Will before my vision ope?
44973	Must even love divine have doubt''s sad tone?
44973	Must not she His own secret bear To so touch soul of man?
44973	O Christ, can it be that Thine own risen strength Can give life, added life, to my soul, To my sin- laden, weak, starving soul?
44973	O Rosa, happy Rosa, Gone where the good dogs go, Dost find such fields as"Fairfields,"More love than we could show?
44973	O happy creature, dancing, Is time too short With pleasure fraught For you to heed my seeking?
44973	O no; What"Angular Saxon"would say so?
44973	Oh, could I not been spared this stroke, known one less bitter pain, And been as good for duties here, as fit for heaven''s reign?
44973	Oh, is not love infernal When love can be undone?"
44973	Oh, what?
44973	Oh, whence?
44973	Oh, where?
44973	Oh, who knows How the blush of the rose Can its secret disclose?
44973	Oh, who knows?
44973	Oh, who knows?
44973	Once loved?
44973	Shall I now know peace?
44973	Shall I too know After earth''s throe Full freedom of my being?
44973	Shall I, as you, Through law as true, Know life of fuller meaning?
44973	Shall full fruition free my soul From limitation''s sad control, And all my faculties of mind Their perfect rest and freedom find?
44973	Shall my human heart be satisfied, And sorrow and pain be justified?
44973	TO B. P. S."Why do n''t I write a story?"
44973	TO S. R. H. I have sowed in tears,-- Shall I reap in joy?
44973	That wish is best, Is''t not, dearest?
44973	The Cephalonia is her name-- But why need I tell more?
44973	The kingdom of heaven is what?
44973	The kingdom of heaven is whence?
44973	The kingdom of heaven is where?
44973	Then said the child,-- Heaven''s blessing on her fall,--"Why does n''t God get from Brazil A man to make them all?"
44973	These were the same two little boys Whose nurse searched far and wide For little sister''s rubber shoes;"Where can they be?"
44973	Those who deny this see not clear Into the heart of things; For how could otherwise God here Reveal His wanderings?
44973	Thy birthday, dear?
44973	Thy birthday, dear?
44973	Thy birthday, dear?
44973	WHAT?
44973	WHENCE?
44973	WHERE?
44973	Was this the form he once had loved?
44973	Was this the way, the only way, eternal life to gain?
44973	Were ever such roses?
44973	What could he give?
44973	What for?
44973	What''s that message I hear Bearing down on my sad troubled heart?
44973	What''s that?
44973	When asked,"O kitty, where''s the ball?"
44973	When will I learn to calmly say,"Thy will is mine,"both night and day?
44973	Whence comes all this to bless me, The soft wind to caress me, The life which does my strength renew For purer visions of the true?
44973	Where have they been?"
44973	Who changes so quickly your sombre green dress To the yellow one gay, And makes you the pet of the twilight''s caress, And of poet''s sweet lay?
44973	Who could resist such loveliness?
44973	Who dares, Yes, who dares?
44973	Who does, primrose, pray?
44973	Who knows?
44973	Who tells you, sweet primrose,''tis time to wake up After dreaming all day?
44973	Why do I love thee?
44973	Why joyest thou, O dear one?
44973	Why weepest thou, O dear one?
44973	Will it ever cease?
44973	Will not the soul, when free, seek like the bird Its own, my dear?
44973	_ Intervale Woods, North Conway._ CONSCIOUS OR UNCONSCIOUS?
44973	_ July 12, 1886._ Another birthday here?
44973	_ Matthew 26:36- 46._"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
44973	this can never be on earth, Since he who gladly gave me birth To everything that was of worth Has gone from out my sense and sight, To what?
35395	I 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? 35395 Will you come to the stage entrance of the Lyceum some day soon and you shall have stalls for two; now will you come?
35395	( Has Mr. O''Connor succeeded in getting practically adopted his new method of making cast steel?
35395	Ah, dear friend, will you be able to have patience with me, for me?
35395	And are you then really back at Washington, I wonder, or have you only visited it in spirit,& written the recollection of former evenings?
35395	And do they turn towards England,& our nest therein?
35395	And how know what we may hope for, but by knowing the truth of what is, here and now?
35395	And how obtain evidence of things not seen but by a knowledge of things seen?
35395	And humility?
35395	And if it is impossible for us to see whither, as in the nature of things it must be, how can we be adequate judges of the way?
35395	And what else, indeed, at bottom, is science so busy at?
35395	And what right have the Doctors to utter gloomy prophecies?
35395	And what shall I tell you about?
35395	And when did you get the Sept.& Oct. letters& did you get the two copies that I, baffled& almost despairing, sent off in Nov.?
35395	Are not the Carlyle& Emerson letters interesting?
35395	Are our senses in reference to life like the deaf ear in this respect?"
35395	Are you getting on, my Darling?
35395	Are you indeed getting strong& well again?
35395	Are you troubled that He is an unknown God; that we can not by searching find Him out?
35395	But who put it there?
35395	But why& why did Dr. Bucke set himself to counteract that beneficient law of nature''s by which the dust tends to lay itself?
35395	Can both be simply lost?
35395	Can you rest in dizzy rocks overhanging dark, tempestuous abysses?
35395	Can you sustain your long, lifelong flights upward?
35395	Can your eyes look the sun in the face like his?
35395	Could any man suffer a base curiosity, to make him so meanly, treacherously cruel?
35395	Did I tell you William Rossetti and his bride were spending their honeymoon at Naples?
35395	Did I tell you that I had received letters from Tennyson, and that he cordially invites me to visit him?
35395	Did dear Bee tell you, in the long letter she once wrote you, how much she loved the Swiss ladies with whom she made her home while in Berne?
35395	Did you dream it before?
35395	Do they not see that this fearless pride, this complete acceptance of themselves, is needful for her pride, her justification?
35395	Do they really think that God is ashamed of what he has made and appointed?
35395	Do you ever see Mr. Marvin?
35395	Do you ever see or hear from Mr. Marvin?
35395	Do you know, dear Friend, what it means for a woman, what it means for me, to understand these poems?
35395	Do you remember Maggie Lesley?
35395	Do you remember how we laughed at his dramatic presentation of a negro prayer meeting?
35395	Do you remember the Miss Chases-- two pleasant maiden ladies who took tea with us once in Philadelphia& talked about Sojourner Truth?
35395	Do you think there is ever a bride who does not taste more or less this bitterness in her cup?
35395	Do your children always say when they see one, as ours do,"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home: your house is on fire, your children are flown"?
35395	Does the idea ever come into your head, dear Friend, of spending a little time this summer or autumn in your English home at Hampstead?
35395	Does the sale of"Leaves of Grass"continue pretty steady?
35395	Faith runs ahead to fetch glad tidings for us; but if she start from a basis of ignorance and illusion, how can she but run in the wrong direction?
35395	For what is Faith?
35395	Greely?
35395	Have I said it over& over again?
35395	Have you been at Kirkwood lately, I wonder?
35395	Have you begun to have any summer thoughts, dear Walt?
35395	Have you heard, I wonder, of William Rossetti''s approaching marriage?
35395	Have you noticed that the time to look for the best things in best people is the moment of their greatest need?
35395	How are Mr. Marvin& Mr. Burroughs?
35395	How are Mr.& Mrs. Whitman and Hattie& Jessie?
35395	How can I be content to live wholly isolated from you?
35395	How can one refrain from expressing gratitude to you for what you have so admirably done?..."
35395	How does the"little shanty"answer, I wonder?
35395	How else could the self- preserving instincts, and all that grows out of them, have been evoked?
35395	How else those wonders of the moral world, fortitude, patience, sympathy?
35395	How is John Burroughs?
35395	I am not sure whether you know the Gilders?
35395	I have been reading Carlyle''s reminiscences-- good stuff in them, brilliant touches, but dreadfully morbid, do n''t you think?
35395	I hope you are as well as ever able to stand it& enjoy it?
35395	I say how very highly I prize that last slip you sent me,"A backward glance on my own road"?
35395	If the thing a word stands for exists by divine appointment( and what does not so exist?
35395	In what sense may Walt Whitman be called the Poet of Democracy?
35395	Is it to be supposed that the reader can make progress of this kind like an Indian prince or general stretched on his palanquin and borne by slaves?
35395	Is there, then, no place for that virtue so much praised by the haughty?
35395	Is your arm free from rheumatic pains?
35395	Is your heart like his, a great glowing sun of Love?"
35395	July 4, 1874._ MY DEAREST FRIEND: Are you well and happy, and enjoying this beautiful summer?
35395	LETTER XLV ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN_ 112 Madison Ave., Jan. 27,''79._ MY DEAREST FRIEND: Are you never coming?
35395	London Jan. 31,''73._ DEAREST FRIEND: Shall you never find it in your heart to say a kind word to me again?
35395	Looking back to the palmy days of feudalism, especially as immortalized in Shakespeare''s plays, what is it we find most admirable?
35395	May I, without being presumptuous, dear Walt, tell you how I should dearly like to see them arranged?
35395	Miss Blind is bringing out a volume of poems; why will people all imagine they can write poetry?
35395	My Darling, let me use that tender caressing word once more-- for how can I help it, with heart so full& no outlet but words?
35395	O dear Walt, did you not feel in every word the breath of a woman''s love?
35395	O surely in the ineffable tenderness of thy look speaks the yearning of thy man- soul towards my woman- soul?
35395	Of that New World literature, say, are not his poems the beginning?
35395	Of that band, is not Walt Whitman the pioneer?
35395	One is intended for the lady( if I may be permitted to send it her)--and will you please accept the other, with my respects and love?
35395	Science materialistic?
35395	Shall you not be coming to Boston sometime before I leave, 1st June?
35395	Sleeping well-- eating well, dear friend?
35395	The little heap of ashes, the puff of gas, do you pretend that is all that was Shakespeare?
35395	The quiet tenor of our daily lives here?
35395	The rest of him lives in his works, you say?
35395	Thought you greatness was to ripen for you like a pear?
35395	Was the sea risen?
35395	Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?
35395	We criticise a palace or a cathedral; but what is the good of criticising a forest?
35395	We often say,"Wo n''t Walt like sitting in that sunny window?"
35395	We stand the cold well-- how does it suit you?
35395	Were Jessie& Hattie at home in St. Louis, I wonder, when you were there?
35395	What can I send you?
35395	What can have deeper roots, or a more immortal growing power?
35395	What caused it?
35395	What is all this but an advance or conquest made by the soul of the poet?
35395	What was the spell?
35395	What, to passions I witness around me to- day?
35395	What, to pavements and homesteads here-- what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
35395	When will men begin to understand them?
35395	Whichever side the Atlantic it is, you will come surely?
35395	Whitman has paid a fitting tribute to the pluck exhibited in this achievement:"Do you know much of Blake?"
35395	Who are you, that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?"
35395	Who but he could put at last the right meaning into that word"democracy,"which has been made to bear such a burthen of incongruous notions?
35395	Who do you think came to see us on Sunday?
35395	Who should be the mouthpiece of this whole?
35395	You have always been pretty well received in Boston, have you not-- I mean in the Emerson days?
35395	You will certainly have to come to us as soon as ever we have a comfortable home, wo n''t you?
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35395	able to drink in draughts of pleasure from the sights& sounds& perfumes of this delicious time,"lilac time"--according to your wo nt?
35395	and the love and thought that endow the whole be less enduring than the gravitating, chemical, electric powers that endow its atoms?
35395	did you not see as through a transparent veil a soul all radiant and trembling with love stretching out its arms towards you?
35395	how can we but often grope and be full of perplexity?
35395	how could the muscles of the heart suddenly grow adequate to such new work?
35395	is it all so ignoble, so base, that it will not bear the honest light of speech from lips so gifted with"the divine power to use words?"
35395	or a word of some sort?
35395	what is it that fascinates?
35395	who makes much of a miracle?
30342	Are you faithful to things? 30342 Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
30342	Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage songs?
30342	Have you learn''d lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you? 30342 What do you suppose creation is?
30342	Who is he that would become my follower? 30342 ( who is it? 30342 ***** What is this you bring my America? 30342 And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone? 30342 And shall it be said that the poet who does this has no worthy art? 30342 And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean? 30342 And that there is no God any more divine than yourself? 30342 And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
30342	And what else do we finally demand of any work than that it be inspired?
30342	And what shall my perfume be, for the grave of him I love?
30342	Are the precise, the regular, the measured, the finished, the symmetrical, indispensable to our conception of art?
30342	Are we quite sure, after all, that what we call"artistic form"is in any high or fundamental sense artistic?
30342	Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life?
30342	Are you not of some coterie?
30342	Ask yourself, What is the point of view of absolute, uncompromising science?
30342	But do they?
30342	But what of that?
30342	Can he stand the test of nature?
30342	Can it face us in undress?
30342	Can it go alone?
30342	Can we absorb and assimilate him?
30342	Can we name them better than St. Paul named them eighteen hundred years ago,--faith, hope, charity?
30342	Can we say, therefore, they are more artistic?
30342	Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, whirls, fierce contentions?
30342	Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
30342	Could any one else have done it?
30342	Could any sane man have written the Children of Adam poems who was not sustained by deepest moral and æsthetic convictions?
30342	Depleted and enervated, or full and joyous?
30342	Did he not lay claim to the vices and vanities of men also?
30342	Did it not attest reality?
30342	Did our skepticism, our headiness, our worldliness, threaten to eat us up like a cancer?
30342	Do his lines cut to the quick, and beget heat and joy in the soul?
30342	Do we get the reality, or words about the reality?
30342	Do we not gain in scope and power what we lose in art and refinement?
30342	Do we not gain just what Whitman had in view, namely, direct contact with the elements in which are the sources of our life and health?
30342	Do we not know that true greatness, true nobility and strength of soul, may go and do go with commonplace, every- day humanity?
30342	Do we not, consciously or unconsciously, ask this or a similar question of every poet or artist whom we pass in review before us?
30342	Do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
30342	Does Nature preach such a system?
30342	Does he exalt the pride of man in himself, or egoism?
30342	Does he flout at the old religions?
30342	Does he glory in the present?
30342	Does he make it the quarry from which he carves statues or builds temples?
30342	Does he make man- stuff of it?
30342	Does he make us more religious, more tolerant, more charitable, more candid, more self- reliant?
30342	Does he nourish the manly and heroic virtues?
30342	Does he praise candor?
30342	Does he retain the native savage virtues, or is he entirely built up from the outside?
30342	Does he sound the call of battle for the Union?
30342	Does he stamp it with his own image?
30342	Does he strike back through it to simple, original nature, or is he a potted plant?
30342	Does he toughen us, does he help make arterial blood?
30342	Does it answer universal needs?
30342	Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
30342	Does life, does death, does nature, respect our proprieties, our conventional veils and illusions?
30342	Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats of enemies''lands?
30342	Has not the Bible worked evil also?
30342	Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?"
30342	Have real employments contributed to it?
30342	Have you not imported this or the spirit of it in some ship?
30342	Have you not learn''d great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?
30342	Have you sped through fleeting customs, popularities?
30342	Have you the brooding, warming, vivifying mother- mind?
30342	Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of these States?
30342	Have you, too, the old, ever- fresh forbearance and impartiality?
30342	How dare he do it?
30342	How do I know but you are a secessionist?
30342	How does he justify himself to himself?
30342	How much of a man are you?
30342	How much of a man is he?
30342	How shall a poet in our day and land treat this fact?
30342	How vital and fundamental is your poetic gift?
30342	I do not ask, Does he work it up into what are called artistic forms?
30342	I said,"What is it, my dear?
30342	I said:''Why, Oscar, do n''t you think you will get well?''
30342	IV"The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
30342	If he loved praise, why should he not be frank about it?
30342	In what other poet do these men, or others like them, find themselves?
30342	Is Japanese pottery, the glazing often ragged and uneven, less artistic than the highly finished work of the moderns?
30342	Is a gold coin of the time of Pericles, so rude and simple, less artistic than the elaborate coins of our own day?
30342	Is he adequate to absorb and digest it?
30342	Is he animating to life itself?
30342	Is he master of his culture, or does it master him?
30342	Is he tonic and inspiring?
30342	Is he waiting for civilization, or is he past it and master of it?"
30342	Is his fashion adequate?
30342	Is it at all probable that Tennyson can ever be to any other age what he has been to this?
30342	Is it health, life, power, or what is it?
30342	Is it not a mere tale?
30342	Is it not something that has been better done or told before?
30342	Is it plastic in his hands?
30342	Is it the general intelligence that speaks, the culture and refinement of the age?
30342	Is it through you?
30342	Is it uniform with my country?
30342	Is reform needed?
30342	Is the air, the sunshine, the free spaces, the rocks, the soil, the trees, and the exhilaration of it all, nothing?
30342	Is the interpretation vivid and real?
30342	Is there no room for the new man?
30342	Is this the democracy of religion?
30342	King said to him,"Why, how can I do this thing, or anything for you?
30342	Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain''d with iron, or my ankles with iron?"
30342	On firmer ground, or in the mire?
30342	On the street the promenaders would turn and look after him, and I have often heard them ask each other,"What man was that?"
30342	One tipsy man in a buggy responded,''Why, pap, how d''ye do, pap?''
30342	Original makers, not mere amanuenses?
30342	Out of these vast, rolling, cloud- like masses does there leap forth the true lightning?
30342	The content of his verse,--what is it?
30342	The hymn- book seeks to embody or awaken religious emotion alone; would its religious value be less if its poetic value were more?
30342	The message of beauty,--who would undervalue it?
30342	The new poet has this or that gift, but what is the human fund back of all?
30342	The only question is, Has he a law, has he a steady and rational point of view, is his work a consistent and well- organized whole?
30342	The question is, Did he master it?
30342	The question is, Is he adequate, is he man enough, to do it?
30342	The vital question is, Where does he leave us?
30342	Then the strain goes on:--"O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?
30342	These things are indispensable in the mill and counting- house, but why should we insist upon them in poetry?
30342	Think of manhood, and you to be a man; Do you count manhood, and the sweet of manhood, nothing?
30342	Think of womanhood and you to be a woman; The Creation is womanhood; Have I not said that womanhood involves all?
30342	To put his arms around it?
30342	We are not to ask, Is it like this or like that?
30342	We ask ourselves, Does he breathe the air of health?
30342	We demand of the new man, of the overthrower of our idols, but one thing,--has he authentic inspiration and power?
30342	We lose something certainly, but do we not gain something also?
30342	What are the enemies of art?
30342	What are the questions or purposes, then, in which his work has root?
30342	What are the three great life- giving principles?
30342	What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
30342	What do you suppose will satisfy the soul but to walk free and own no superior?
30342	What is he like?
30342	What is his endowment of the common universal human traits?
30342	What place have they in the antique bards?--in Homer, in Job, in Isaiah, in Dante?
30342	When will he redeem all these promises, and become a fixed centre of thought and emotion in himself?
30342	Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
30342	Where is he who undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?"
30342	Which is really the most artistic?
30342	Whitman certainly has a form of his own: what would a poet, or any writer or worker in the ideal, do without some kind of form?
30342	Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
30342	Why does Whitman''s material suggest to any reader that it is poetic material?
30342	Why not allow and even welcome the freedom of half- rhymes, or suggestive rhymes?
30342	Why should we call this verse- tinkering and verse- shaping art, when it is only artifice?
30342	Why should we cling to an arbitrary form like the sonnet?
30342	Why should we insist upon a perfect rhyme, as if it was a cog in a wheel?
30342	Why, anyway, fold back a sentence or idea to get it into a prescribed arbitrary form?
30342	Will he be true to his ideal through thick and thin?
30342	Will he not falter, or betray self- consciousness?
30342	Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, to appear again in my strength, gait, face?
30342	With levity and by throwing over it the lure of the forbidden, the attraction of the erotic?
30342	XI What has a poet of Whitman''s aims to do with decency or indecency, with modesty or immodesty?
30342	a pettiness?--is the good old cause in it?
30342	a rhyme?
30342	and stood aside for you?
30342	animating now to life itself?
30342	are you really of the whole people?
30342	are you very strong?
30342	but, Is it vital, is it real, is it a consistent, well- organized whole?
30342	did our hardness, our irreligiousness, and our passion for the genteel point to a fugitive, superficial race?
30342	do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
30342	do you want anything?"
30342	does Nature preach at all?
30342	how could he do it, and not betray hesitation or self- consciousness?
30342	is it you?)
30342	liberty, fraternity, and equality carried out in the spiritual sphere?
30342	or have we a new revelation of life, a new mind and soul?
30342	or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?"
30342	some consistent and adequate vehicle of expression?
30342	some school, or mere religion?
30342	was our literature threatened with the artistic degeneration,--running all to art and not at all to power?
30342	were our communities invaded by a dry rot of culture?
30342	were we fast becoming a delicate, indoor, genteel race?
30342	will it improve manners?