Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O TRAVELER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder Last Line: And crowned you with a curse? Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
O Traveler, what trenchant wonder Enchained your stormy eyes? Tell me what stark exultant thunder Tamed your brave blasphemies? Was it the old intolerant ocean Inflamed with drunken foam, Or some wild bird gone mad with motion Stabbing the world's blue dome? Perhaps upon a purple-misted Island where houris whirl Your brazen heart was trapped and twisted By some bronze-bodied girl. Or, maybe, on a night of magic, To a barbaric tune, You fell a victim to the tragic Enticements of the moon. O Traveler, once you ran wildly A riotous universe . . . What wisdom made you walk so mildly, And crowned you with a curse? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES |
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