All 3 Uses of
horde
in
Leaves of Grass
- you woolly-hair'd hordes!†
Chpt 6 *hordes = large numbers
- 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.†Chpt 29
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I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the
best sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's,
autumn's spread,
I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses
winter-cool'd the same;†Chpt 34horde = a large number
Definition:
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move