History & Politics

Shut Not Your Doors

by Walt Whitman 1819–1892

From Leaves of Grass

History & Politics

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet
needed most, I bring,
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,
A book separate, not link’d with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.

MLA

Whitman, Walt. “Shut Not Your Doors.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/20/.

Chicago

Whitman, Walt. “Shut Not Your Doors.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/20/.

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