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Definition
become wider (bigger)
- I chant the chant of dilation or pride, We have had ducking and deprecating about enough, I show that size is only development.Book 3 — Song of Myself (33% in)
- For Him I Sing For him I sing, I raise the present on the past, (As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,) With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws, To make himself by them the law unto himself.Book 1 — 1NSCRIPTIONS (55% in)
- His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him, His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.Book 3 — Song of Myself (52% in)
- I dilate you with tremendous breath, I buoy you up, Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force, Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.Book 3 — Song of Myself (76% in)
- ...Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves; Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride; In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement, The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth, The drama of the scalp-dance...Book 10 — Our Old Feuillage (56% in)
- Thou, thou, the Ideal Man, Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving, Complete in body and dilate in spirit, Be thou my God.Book 20 — BY THE ROADSIDE (42% in)
- Poet: My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last, Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute, I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded, My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,) I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand, Insensate! insensate!Book 21 — DRUM-TAPS (23% in)
- Democracy, while weapons were everywhere aim'd at your breast, I saw you serenely give birth to immortal children, saw in dreams your dilating form, Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (89% in)
- ...strong waves, The woods, the stalwart trees, the slender, tapering trees, The liliput countless armies of the grass, The heat, the showers, the measureless pasturages, The scenery of the snows, the winds' free orchestra, The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes, The high-dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars, The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows, The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products.Book 24 — AUTUMN RIVULETS (5% in)
- Not alone on those warlike fields the Mother of All, With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you.Book 24 — AUTUMN RIVULETS (13% in)
- [VI] Proudly the Flood Comes In Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing, Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling, All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work, Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun, Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound, Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.Book 34 — SANDS AT SEVENTY (16% in)
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