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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF TRAVEL: 2. YOUTH AND LOVE: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Once only by the garden gate
Last Line: For god to plough them under.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Life; Love; Youth
First Line: Once only by the garden gate
Last Line: For god to plough them under.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Life; Love; Youth
ONCE only by the garden gate
Our lips we joined and parted.
I must fulfil an empty fate
And travel the uncharted.
Hail and farewell! I must arise,
Leave here the fatted cattle,
And paint on foreign lands and skies
My Odyssey of battle.
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
Come ill or well, the cross, the crown,
The rainbow or the thunder,
I fling my soul and body down
For God to plough them under.
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