Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WANDERER'S SONG, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: I have had enough of women, and enough of love
Last Line: Well, it's sound sleep and long sleep, and sleep too deep to wake.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue


I have had enough of women, and enough of love,
But the land waits, and the sea waits, and day and night is enough;
Give me a long white road, and the grey wide path of the sea,
And the wind's will and the bird's will, and the heart-ache still in me.

Why should I seek out sorrow, and give gold for strife?
I have loved much and wept much, but tears and love are not life;
The grass calls to my heart, and the foam to my blood cries up,
And the sun shines and the road shines, and the wine's in the cup.

I have had enough of wisdom, and enough of mirth,
For the way's one and the end's one, and it's soon to the ends of the earth;
And it's then good-night and to bed, and if heels or heart ache,
Well, it's sound sleep and long sleep, and sleep too deep to wake.





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