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Quotation from The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”
The Complete Poems, Song of Myself, §52
Near the close of Song of Myself, the speaker turns his voice outward in a raw public cry.
Citation: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" — Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems, Song of Myself, §52. (id whitman-complete-poems-q3)
Portrait: Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox, George Collins Cox / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
