Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENVOY, TO 'MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA', by RICHARD HOVEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose furthest footstep never strayed Last Line: The only purpose of the earth. Variant Title(s): The Wanderer Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes | ||||||||
I WHOSE furthest footstep never strayed Beyond the village of his birth Is but a lodger for the night In this old wayside inn of earth. To-morrow he shall take his pack, And set out for the ways beyond On the old trail from star to star, An alien and a vagabond. II If any record of our names Be blown about the hills of time, Let no one sunder us in death, -- The man of paint, the men of rhyme. Of all our good, of all our bad, This one thing only is of worth, -- We held the league of heart to heart The only purpose of the earth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN |
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