"I thought your search was over." -- "So I thought." -- "But you are seeking still." -- "Yes, even so: Still seeking in mine own despite below That which in Heaven alone is found unsought; Still spending for that thing which is not bought." -- "Then chase no more this shifting empty show." -- "Amen: so bid a drowning man forego The straw he clutches; will he so be taught? You have a home where peace broods like a dove Screened from the weary world's loud discontent, You have home here, you wait for home above: I must unlearn the pleasant ways I went, Must learn another hope, another love, And sigh indeed for home in banishment." -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE SHADE OF PO CHU-I by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 3. AMARYLLIS by THOMAS CAMPION A PRAISE OF HIS LADY by JOHN HEYWOOD SONGS OF TRAVEL: 46. EVENSONG by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON MRS. HARRIS'S PETITION: TO EXCELLENCIES THE LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND by JONATHAN SWIFT |