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perpetual
used in Leaves of Grass

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Definition
continuing forever without change

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occurring so frequently it seems continual
  • Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
    Book 3 — Song of Myself (48% in)
  • I know I am solid and sound, To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
    Book 3 — Song of Myself (32% in)
  • Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan, Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
    Book 3 — Song of Myself (48% in)
  • I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!
    Book 3 — Song of Myself (90% in)
  • I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven, O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions, If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
    Book 3 — Song of Myself (97% in)
  • ...The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,) All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy, The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there, Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing, The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
    Book 9 — Song of the Answerer (19% in)
  • There is something that comes to one now and perpetually, It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print, It is not to be put in a book, it is not in this book, It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you, It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them.
    Book 15 — A Song for Occupations (24% in)
  • Visor'd A mask, a perpetual natural disguiser of herself, Concealing her face, concealing her form, Changes and transformations every hour, every moment, Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
    Book 20 — BY THE ROADSIDE (86% in)
  • ...With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads, With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces, With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn, With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour'd around the coffin, The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey, With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac.
    Book 22 — MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN (19% in)
  • Already a nonchalant breed, silently emerging, appears on the streets, People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers, There will shortly be no more priests, I say their work is done, Death is without emergencies here, but life is perpetual emergencies here, Are your body, days, manners, superb? 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?
    Book 23 — By Blue Ontario's Shore.... (70% in)
  • Some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods, Some down Colorado's canons from sources of perpetual snow, Some half-hid in Oregon, or away southward in Texas, Some in the north finding their way to Erie, Niagara, Ottawa, Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
    Book 24 — AUTUMN RIVULETS (1% in)
  • His face is cold and damp, he cannot repress the weeping drops, He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes, the color is blanch'd from his cheeks, He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
    Book 28 — The Sleepers.... (46% in)
  • The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing, The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing, The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go.
    Book 29 — To Think of Time (80% in)
  • The United States to Old World Critics Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete, Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice, Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps, The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
    Book 34 — SANDS AT SEVENTY (41% in)

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