Walt Whitman: [9] The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready (from Song of Myself)

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[9] The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready (from Song of Myself)

Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Transcendentalist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic : Transcendentalist

19th Century

The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
The dried grass of the harvest time loads the slow-drawn wagon,
The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
The armfuls are packed to the sagging mow.
I am there, I help, I came stretched atop of the load,
I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other,
I jump from the crossbeams and seize the clover and timothy,
And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.

-- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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Light

Recommended Books

	Dead Poets Society (DVD), by
	Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
	The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee
	Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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