Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes | ||||||||
'TIS we who live that vagrants are; the dead Are not poor outcasts from our love, but rather The seeking souls who earlier have sped To where friends gather. Just every little while, one slips away; Almost we hear their greeting from those others: Our loss must make for them a happy day, Brothers to brothers! We who remain draw closer each to each; We smile as best we may with each to-morrow; But oh, our spirits know there is no speech To tell our sorrow! Not theirs the grief, we say, not theirs the grief; Our ranks grow thin, while theirs increase for ever: No hearth a-cold, no falling of the leaf, No friends that sever. Until we long to be of their good cheer; Oh, with what heartfelt, wistful yearning To join that company, select and dear, The home-returning! | 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 BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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