by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The big doors of the country barn stand...
Language: English
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 pack'd to the sagging mow. I am there, I help, I came stretch'd atop of the load, I felt its soft jolts, one leg reclined on the other, I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy, And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Song of Myself, no. 9 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Normand Lockwood (b. 1906), "The big doors of the country barn stand open", published 1954 [ mixed chorus and piano ], from I hear America singing [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 87