Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, O TRAVELER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN



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O TRAVELER, by                    
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?





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