Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Bars let down into pastures measureless; The air we breathe to-day, through thee, is freer Than, buoyant with its freshness, we can guess. Thy forehead toward the unrisen morning set, Nature and life faced with their own calm gaze, No human thought inhospitably met, Thou beckonest onward, as in earlier days: A voice that wandered towards us, like a breeze, From great expanses beyond time and space, With hints of unexplored eternities Stirring the sluggish soul new paths to trace; A word that gave us lightness, as of wings; Home, welcome, freedom in the Everywhere! The mention of thy name, like Nature's, brings A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS MORNING IN CAMP by HERBERT BASHFORD THE WORN WEDDING-RING by WILLIAM COX BENNETT THE DEATH OF LEONIDAS by GEORGE CROLY ROBIN REDBREAST by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE THE FIRST DANDELION by WALT WHITMAN A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES SOLUTION OF THE CHARADE IN THE MUSEUM FOR OCTOBER by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |