Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VAGRANT, by PAULINE SLENDER First Line: I will leave the dust of the city street and the noise of the busy town Last Line: And a dream that the fairies spin from stars on the other side of the moon. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers | ||||||||
I WILL leave the dust of the City street and the noise of the busy town For the windy moor and the high hill and the peat-stream flowing brown; I will keep my watch by the camp-fires where the white cliffs lean to the sea, And dawn shall wake me with golden hands and the rain shall walk with me. I will seek the place where gypsies roam and strange, wild songs are sung; I will find once more the magic paths I knew when earth was young. And the stars will give me comradeship and the wind will be my friend, And I will send you the faëry gold that lies at the rainbow's end. Stretch not your hands nor bid me stay, I hear the white road's call, The sun hath kissed the buds from sleep, and I am one with them all; But I will send you a golden cloak and a pair of silver shoon, And a dream that the fairies spin from stars on the other side of the moon. | 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 ASHURNATSIRPAL III by CARL SANDBURG |
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