Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM


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First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer!
Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air.
Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty


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.





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