Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A WANDERER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY First Line: Light was the lilt of your frolicsome feet Last Line: Ah for the charm and the cheat of the world! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers | ||||||||
Light was the lilt of your frolicsome feet, Winsome your grace as a banner unfurled; Home gave you happiness sweet and complete; Why were you charmed by the siren-voiced world? Fortune was bountiful though she was blind; Youth was like morning with dew drops impearled; Love was beneficent; What do you find Now, in a portionless, pitiless world? Envy has eyed you with lowering sneer; Pity's proud lip in contempt has been curled; Prudence has called you in tremulous fear Fear of a dissolute, desolate world. Autumn's gray mists have come down on your track; Summer's dead memories round it are swirled; Who is beside you to pilot you back Back from the wildering waste of the world? Oh for the lilt of the frolicsome feet! Oh for the grace like a banner unfurled! Oh for the happiness, sweet and complete! Ah for the charm and the cheat of the world! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY |
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