Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean | ||||||||
ODEAR adventurer, once more dost thou Fare forth into the outlands, through far seas! Nothing can come of strange unto thee now, For travel was thy wont, thy argosies Were rich and many; where thy bark was turned Friends met thee, and for thee a home-light burned. Surely, some day, as often in the Past, Keen-eyed and brown, sweet smiling as of yore, Thou wilt come back to live with us at last, Thy shadow ever grateful at our door: Bringing, the while we marvel at thy wares, An aromatic breath from Otherwheres. Or if it be that we instead must go To find thee, friend, all gentle and all true, Eager and waving wilt thou stand, we know, To bid us welcome when the voyage is through; Oh, what a meeting will be there, what flowers, What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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