Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAURYA'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH Poet's Biography First Line: Rushes that grow by the black water Last Line: In the old country! Subject(s): Homesickness | ||||||||
RUSHES that grow by the black water When will I see you more? When will the sorrowful heart forget you, Land of the green, green shore? When will the field and the small cabin See us more In the old country? What is to me all the gold yonder? She that bore me is gone. Knees that dandled and hands that blessed me Colder than any stone. Stranger to me than the face of strangers Are my own In the old country! Vein o' my heart, from the lone mountain The smoke of the turf will die, And the stream that sang to the young childer Run down alone from the sky: On the door-stone, grass, -- and the cloud lying Where they lie In the old country! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES by GEORGE SANTAYANA OUTSIDE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA by JAMES WRIGHT HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD by ROBERT BROWNING MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER HOMESICK BLUES by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME] by JEAN INGELOW |
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