Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS COUNTRY, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I journeyed from my native spot Last Line: On my way everywhere.' Subject(s): Patriotism | ||||||||
[He travels southward, and looks around;] I JOURNEYED from my native spot Across the south sea shine, And found that people in hall and cot Laboured and suffered each his lot Even as I did mine. [and cannot discover the boundary] Thus noting them in meads and marts It did not seem to me That my dear country with its hearts, Minds, yearnings, worse and better parts Had ended with the sea. [of his native country;] I further and further went anon, As such I still surveyed, And further yet - yea, on and on, And all the men I looked upon Had heart-strings fellow-made. [or where his duties to his fellow-creatures end;] I traced the whole terrestrial round, Homing the other side; Then said I, 'What is there to bound My denizenship? It seems I have found Its scope to be world-wide.' [nor who are his enemies.] I asked me: 'Whom have I to fight, And whom have I to dare, And whom to weaken, crush, and blight? My country seems to have kept in sight On my way everywhere.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SHINE, REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 6 by YEHUDA AMICHAI A CAROL FOR THE NEW YEAR by EDWIN MARKHAM A SONG OF VICTORY by EDWIN MARKHAM BROTHERHOOD (1) by EDWIN MARKHAM THE ERRAND IMPERIOUS by EDWIN MARKHAM AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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