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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOMECOMING Matches Found: 326 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "AS I WALKED OUT ONE NIGHT, IT BEING DARK ALL OVER", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "like a nightingale in spring, 'welcome home, my dearest'" Subject(s): Homecoming;love "BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (1)", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "swing low, sweet chariot" Last Line: Coming for to carry me home Variant Title(s): "swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;american Civil War;black Songs;homecoming;u.s. - History; Negro Spirituals A BIRD FROM THE WEST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves Last Line: Oh! Fair the breaking day in ireland now. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming; Ireland; Irish A BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: By the rain and oak leaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii; Second World War A DAUGHTER RETURNS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like not that dainty-cut raiment, those earrings of pearl Last Line: Then, then shall I think, think of thee! Subject(s): Daughters; Homecoming A FIRST TIME PERCY CAME BACK, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Homecoming A HOMECOMING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One faith is bondage. Two Subject(s): Homecoming A JOURNEY INTO THE PARK; TO SIR ASTON COCKAIN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, coming home into this frozen clime Last Line: And thankful be, as well as troublesome. Subject(s): Homecoming A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 58, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I came last to ludlow Last Line: Amidst the moonlight pale. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Homecoming A SIMPLE LIE, by NEVILLE PEACE Poem Text First Line: I had gone back Last Line: Give me a simpler lie. Subject(s): Homecoming; Reality A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A TRIBUTE TO MR J. GRAHAM HENDERSON, THE WORLD'S FAIR JUDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome home to hawick, mr j. Graham henderson Last Line: And to gainsay it there's few people can. Subject(s): Homecoming; Honor; Judges; Praise A WIFE AND ANOTHER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: War ends, and he's returning Last Line: I held I had not stirred god wrothfully. Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa Last Line: "I am home!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips AFTER HARVEST, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint is the speech of the tired heart Last Line: To the call of dreams replying. Subject(s): Homecoming AFTERLIVES, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in a dark flat Subject(s): Homecoming AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE KINGS GOOD NIGHT, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, king of guests Last Line: And so, best king, good rest. Subject(s): Homecoming AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; World War I - United States ANONYMOUS OLD POEM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At fifteen I went with the armies Last Line: Then I went out the gate and gazed east, %and the tears fell, soaking my robes Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming APPARITION, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: I walked my fastest down the twilight street Last Line: But what it means, we cannot call to mind. Subject(s): Homecoming AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AUTUMN ON THE PRAIRIE, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: There's a hush upon the prairie Last Line: I am home this year. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Homecoming; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness BACK HOME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad to get back home again Last Line: Where the crowds aren't merely people. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Homecoming BALLAD OF THE DROVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony ridges / across the rolling plain Last Line: All sounding eerily. Subject(s): Death; Drovers; Floods; Homecoming; Dead, The BEIN' BACK HOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home agin, an' home to stay Last Line: That he'll find you right at home. Subject(s): Homecoming BELL AND DRUM ON THE SOUTH RIVER BANK, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bell and drum on the south river bank Last Line: Beyond treetops I see the slant of a bridge. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Variant Title(s): Bell And Drum On The South River Bank (1101) Subject(s): Happiness; Homecoming; Rain; Joy; Delight BIRTHPLACE: NEW ROCHELLE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returning to that house Subject(s): Homecoming BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 19. HOME AGAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back within the valley Last Line: And the starry night! Subject(s): Homecoming BOX COMES HOME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the united states of america Last Line: At the red-taped grave in woodmere %by the rain and oakleaves on the domino Subject(s): Coffins; Homecoming; World War Ii BREST LEFT BEHIND, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes gold the dirty street Last Line: "I don't see very many tears,"" he says." Subject(s): Holidays; Homecoming; Peace; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War BROWN'S DESCENT, OR, THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown lived at such a lofty farm Last Line: By road, a matter of several miles. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming CABIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eviction people arrive to haunt me Last Line: Needle tickle your shoulder, peak curve, fresh air. Subject(s): Homecoming; Moving & Movers; Universities & Colleges CARMINA: 31, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands Last Line: And art, mine own unrivalled fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sirmione, Italy; Homecoming CASUALTIES: 12. RETURN HOME, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Together with chris I brought him home Last Line: A number of papers I did not dare declare Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Farewell; Homecoming; Hunting CELIA'S HOMECOMING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Maidens, kilt your skirts and go Last Line: By the hearth a holier lar! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Homecoming COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAIN, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepheards boy (best knowen by that name) Last Line: Warnd them to draw their bleating flocks to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Homecoming; London; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens COME HOME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's not a house, home is a heart Last Line: You stay too long, and lose the way. Subject(s): Homecoming COME HOME AGAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "therefore, come home again!" Subject(s): Homecoming COME ON HOME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on home, for home is waiting Last Line: Pack your things, and come on home! Subject(s): Homecoming COMING BACK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went through the ancient town Last Line: Who knew me not and passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Meeting Subject(s): Homecoming; Longing; Loss; Towns; Youth COMING BACK TO AMERICA, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We descended the first night from europe - riding the ship's sling Last Line: The thing that sustains us forever in other places! Subject(s): Homecoming COMING BACK TO AMERICA, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We descended the first night from europe - riding the ship's sling Last Line: Symbol - the unforeseen on home ground - the thing that sustains us forever in other places! Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME, by JOZO T. BOSKOVSKI Poem Source First Line: When I come back from some trip Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers & sisters, growing old Last Line: For her children's coming feet! Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: They have hauled in the gang-plank. The breast-line crawls back Last Line: Flutter out the white signals that I'm coming home. Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we're driving, in the dark Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Homecoming COMING HOME, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five minutes here, and they must steal two more! Last Line: That light, our housethey're waiting for me there. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME AT TWILIGHT IN LATE SUMMER, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Se turned into the drive Last Line: And ate, and were grateful Subject(s): Homecoming COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Last Line: The twisted river stopped at the cover of iron. %we burn this city every day. Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor And Laborers CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the very carnival of nature Last Line: "with borrow'd light from thee, for they are thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Homecoming; Nature; Autumn; Thanksgiving; Mortality; Fall CYNTHIA RETURNED FROM THE COUNTRY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is cynthia happily return'd Last Line: We lightning see, e'er we the thunder hear. Subject(s): Homecoming DARK ANGELS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: To the sidewalk in front of my father's Last Line: My father said, 'you eat that,' and I did Subject(s): Fathers; Homecoming DIRGE FOR HOMECOMING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A road that had wound us 20,000 miles Subject(s): Homecoming DISTANCES: 1, by CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO Poem Source First Line: From flesh into phantom Last Line: I was the sole witness to my homecoming Subject(s): Homecoming DRUNKEN LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The hound is barking at the gate Last Line: It's still better than sleeping alone Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Homecoming EAST MAUCH CHUNK, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: East bear mountain %I come again Last Line: Even as he mounted and rode away %I come again Subject(s): East Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania; Homecoming ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ETERNAL RETURN, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along how many main streets have I walked Last Line: And at the corner, as I say goodbye, %pray god my paper bundles hold together Subject(s): Homecoming EXILE, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: The white stars cast their silver nets across eternal snows Last Line: Still the bells of old san gabriel call me home. Subject(s): Homecoming; San Gabriel Mission EXILE, by EMILY TELLER Poem Text First Line: When I go home again...' Last Line: "-- when you have reached there!" Subject(s): Homecoming FALL DAY IN CHANG'AN, by LI YIN Poem Source First Line: Amidst tall trees the sounds of fall are late entering my dreams Last Line: Even without watershield broth or roast perch to provoke them, my thoughts still turn toward home Subject(s): Autumn; Homecoming; Seasons FAREWELL! OH MY BROTHER!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up with the banner, and on with the sword Last Line: I return to her side, and to england, again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Homecoming FATHER'S RETURN, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go children, all of you together Last Line: "give me a prayer and a tear!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Prayer FIRST THANKSGIVING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she comes back, from college, I will see Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Homecoming; Thanksgiving Day FLYING HOME, by MADELYN CAMRUD Poem Source First Line: Just past fargo, it is night Last Line: Up and down the horizon, like stars, %disappearing Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Homecoming; Travel FOR DRUM HADLEY, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD Poem Source First Line: Oh thank you cowboy with four-wheel drive Last Line: Oh thank you drum %for bringing us home Subject(s): Homecoming FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares FROM POLAND, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After soulless germany, my sister writes Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Poland; Homecoming; Family Life; Jews GILBERT: 2. THE WELCOME HOME, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the city hangs the moon Last Line: Since first his life began. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Homecoming GOIN' BACK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood beside the station rail Last Line: "it's joy, he's goin' back to-day." Subject(s): African Americans; Homecoming; Negroes; American Blacks GOIN' HOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish de day was neah at han' Last Line: "ole man! Come home." Subject(s): Homecoming GOING BACK TO SCHOOL, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boat ploughed on. Now alcatraz was past Last Line: "why it's miss nancy! Come along, you rat!" Subject(s): Homecoming GOING HOME, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came home. Said nothing Subject(s): Homecoming GOING HOME, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came home. Said nothing Last Line: For now, though, he has curled up and gone to sleep Subject(s): Homecoming GOING HOME, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright flag at yonder tapering mast Last Line: Room, mother! In thy heart! Place for her in thy prayer! Variant Title(s): Lines On Leaving Europe;my Mother Subject(s): Homecoming; Mothers GOING HOME (BURLINGTON ROUTE), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How smoothly the trains run beyond the missouri Last Line: They run rejoicing, %as if they, too, were going home Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroads GOING HOME; OR DEATH IN THE THEBAID, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient river glimmered in its bed Last Line: Nor her cheek flush, to find herself at home. Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Dead, The HANNAH, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on hooked rugs; my beds are covered with Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Conduct Of Life; Relatives HAZEL, SOUTH DAKOTA, by BOB JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Just before sunset on the first day of may Last Line: To whenever it all began, %wherever Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains! Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HOME AGAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back within the valley Subject(s): Homecoming HOME AGAIN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back within the valley Last Line: And the starry night Subject(s): Homecoming HOME LONGINGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been here fur many days Last Line: Out fur home. Subject(s): Homecoming HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the shadow in the shadow of the wicker Last Line: At the center of the center where the shadows throng Subject(s): Homecoming HOME REVISITED: MIDNIGHT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the shadow in the shadow of the wicker Last Line: At the center of the center where the shadows throng? Subject(s): Homecoming HOME TO SIRMIO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sirmio, that art the very eye Last Line: Rejoice; and every smile of home awake! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Homeward Bound Subject(s): Homecoming; Sirmione, Italy HOME-COMING, by SIBYL CROLY HANCHETT Poem Text First Line: There's a warm pressure in the gusts Last Line: And lays us quiet. Subject(s): Homecoming HOME: 1. RETURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the brown bird-haunted eaves of thatch Last Line: We two, o love, had won to home ere night. Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gem of all isthmuses and isles that lie Last Line: And ring out, all ye laughter-peals of home! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Island Of Sirmio; Sirmio Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I put off for years all thoughts Last Line: And strong of my blood for breakfast Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING, by ALBERT EHRENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Where are your ancient waves, o river Last Line: Are women with children. Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOMECOMING, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: On this indian summer early evening Last Line: Wake me up when you get home Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are crystal chandeliers, Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the satyr's twilight in the park Last Line: Nothing in our beginnings know our ends Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING - MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the satyr's twilight in the park Last Line: Nothing in our beginnings know our ends Subject(s): Homecoming HOMECOMING: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My country heart, I am not home till sesenne sings Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) HOMECOMING: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My country heart, I am not home till sesenne sings Last Line: And the names of rivers whose bridges I used to know Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) HOMECOMING: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blades of the olenader were rattling like green knives Last Line: Endured in their silence the dividing wind Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) HOMECOMING: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the violin whines its question and the banjo answers Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) HOMECOMING: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the violin whines its question and the banjo answers Last Line: But my love of both wide as the atlantic is large Subject(s): Homecoming; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island) HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My adirondack mountain home Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HOMES, AFTER THE WAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the battles, the frenzy, the dread Last Line: As we welcome our heroes home. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river blackens in a frame of snow Last Line: Before the war war was ended we were gone from there Subject(s): Homecoming; Veterans HOMETOWN AFTER A WAR, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river blackens in a frame of snow Last Line: Learning what we left for lost, was not Subject(s): Homecoming; Veterans HOMEWARD, by GUSTAVE KOBBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds crimson-barred Last Line: Of a kiss. and I am home! Subject(s): Homecoming HOMEWARD, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is night, and my watch is slow. The hand is to blame. I Last Line: Moonish face floats. It seems vaguely familiar. If I look at%it deeply, I'm sure to remember from wh Subject(s): Homecoming HOMEWARD BOUND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a fiercer tempest Last Line: With our baby on her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages HOMEWARD BOUND, by E. B. S. Poem Text First Line: Between the hills, between the hills Last Line: My own home-light shall shine for me. Subject(s): Homecoming; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips HOMEWARD BOUND, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the west of the waters on the living ocean's foam Last Line: We are sailing westward, homeward; our western home is near. Subject(s): Homecoming HOMEWARD WE TURN. ISLE OF COLUMBA'S CELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy whereabout, to warn the approaching sail Subject(s): Homecoming HOW BATEESE CAME HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: W'en I was young boy on de farm, dat's twenty year ago Last Line: "kebeck she's good enough for me -- hooraw pour canadaw." Subject(s): Canada; Homecoming; Canadians HYMN OF THE TRAVELLER'S HOUSEHOLD ON HIS RETURN; IN THE OLDEN TIME, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy! The lost one is restored! Last Line: God our king! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Homecoming I AM ASKING YOU TO COME BACK HOME, by JO CARSON Poem Source Last Line: When I am dead, it will not matter %how hard you press your ear the ground Subject(s): Homecoming; Men; Mothers I COME BACK HOME, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come back home, and find the hills Last Line: Has made me with my home content. Subject(s): Homecoming I HATE THE FLORENTINES' PELF-HUNTYNGE RACE, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Homecoming I LOVE A VILLAGE, by BLANCHE PALMER Poem Text First Line: I love a little village best Last Line: Till comes the last clear call. Subject(s): Homecoming; Neighbors; Villages I SHALL RETURN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return again; I shall return Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Homecoming I'LL BE BACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Today is durga puja day Last Line: And watch that day for me to come Subject(s): Homecoming IN THE HUT OF EUMAEUS, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: I have come home and yet I cannot tell Last Line: That knows me better than I can Subject(s): Homecoming INGATHERING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets are going home now Last Line: The patient earth that is waiting to receive you. Subject(s): Homecoming; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR THE VASE PRESENTED TO SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ask ye why around me twine Last Line: "to worthier chief the hirlas bore!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; War INSTEAD OF AN INTERVIEW, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hills, I told them; and water, and the clear air Last Line: By going back to look, after thirteen years, %have I made myself for the first time an exile? Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Homecoming; New Zealand; Travel INVISIBLE IN THE TORN OUT INTERIORS, by DARA WIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looked at us across his little dish Subject(s): Homecoming; Death; Dead, The JENNY DUNLEATH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny dunleath coming back to the town? Last Line: Despised of the world's favored women -- and wait. Subject(s): Homecoming; Spinsters; Old Maids JONQUILS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I look at you, beautiful jonquils Last Line: And my brother now 'biding there. Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; Homecoming; Jonquils; Spanish-american War (1898) KITCHEN RANGE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: What immense gratitude one feels toward life Last Line: To the people in whom I die, to where was born Subject(s): Family Life; Homecoming; Poverty LAMENT OF AROMAITERAI, by AROMAITERAI Poem Text First Line: From mataaoe I look to own land tianina Last Line: Tamaiti. Subject(s): Homecoming; Tahiti LAST FRIENDS, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to my country, but not with the hope Last Line: For the hills of my country remember it yet! Subject(s): Friendship; Homecoming; Ireland LAST NIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Was it last summer, just last year Last Line: And the new year, love, the new year! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Past; Peace; Time; War LINES ON REVISITING CATHCART, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Scenes of my childhood, and dear to my heart Last Line: Untainted by chance, unabated by time. Subject(s): Homecoming LINES SUGGESTED BY A LATE OCCURRENCE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slow we drive! But yet the hour will come Last Line: May peace be in its ebb -- there's ruin in its flow. Subject(s): Drowning; Homecoming; Stagecoaches LINES WRITTEN ON VISITING A SCENE IN ARGYLESHIRE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour Last Line: To bear is to conquer our fate. Subject(s): Homecoming LORD DURHAM'S RETURN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The inconstant is come! Last Line: At lord durham's return! Subject(s): Homecoming MIDWEST HOMECOMING, by IRENE ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The land is spread %in golden loaves of miles Last Line: From cited east to this, %our house of bread Subject(s): Bread; Homecoming MONTGOMERY'S RETURN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How black the barge of trailing pall Last Line: Montgomery came home. Subject(s): Fame; Homecoming; Hudson River; Love; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); New York City; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MOTHER GOOSE (1), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gold and silver bird Last Line: Come home! Come home! Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming MOTHER WEST, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mother, legend runs Last Line: Come home to mother west. Subject(s): Homecoming; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States MULAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsiek tsiek and again tsiek tsiek Last Line: How can I tell if I am he or she? Subject(s): Homecoming; Identity; Soldiers; Women MY LIFE ROLLS BEFORE ME IN A DATSUN, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: On the way home from new plague, arizona Last Line: Which I always carry Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Travel MY NATIVE HOME, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again! I'm back again! Last Line: Of my native home once more. Subject(s): Homecoming MY OWN, MY NATIVE LAND, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear land, I greet you after many years Last Line: The ground that nursed me is to me divine. Subject(s): Homecoming NATIVE VILLAGE, by CHONG CHIYONG Poem Source First Line: When I come back home, to my native village Last Line: The blue expanse of sky spreads high and endless Subject(s): Homecoming NEW HOME, by ELSIE DUNCAN SANDERS Poem Text First Line: So we went back to my old girlhood home Last Line: But serving well its purpose -- binding old and new. Subject(s): Homecoming NEWS, by LINDA WING Poem Source First Line: The news goes by so fast this month. Andrea and I come home, september Last Line: And hoping they live beautiful,or at least die with purpose Subject(s): Homecoming; News NIGHT ON THE CONVOY, ALEXANDRIA - MARSEILLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the blustering darkness, on the deck Last Line: We are going home ... Victims ... Three thousand souls. Subject(s): Homecoming; Navy - Great Britain; World War I; English Navy; First World War NIGHTFALL, by HSIANG SSU Poem Source First Line: The night comes on Last Line: Glows a tiny flame %to guide a husband home Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Night NITHSDALE'S WELCOME HAME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble maxwells and their powers Last Line: Farewell our night o' sorrow. Subject(s): Homecoming; Maxwell, William. 5th Earl Of Nithsdale NOW RETURNED HOME, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the narrows of the inner hebrides Last Line: The screaming haste of new york Subject(s): Homecoming NOW RETURNED HOME, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the narrows of the inner hebrides Last Line: Most clearly; and have rather forgotten the dragging whirlpools of london, the screaming haste of ne Subject(s): Homecoming NOW THEN, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a moment I know Last Line: The other side known Subject(s): Knowledge; Homecoming OCEANIDES, 12. THE HAVEN GAINED, by MARIA JANE JEWSBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And we are parting, glorious sea! Last Line: Such friendships as I leave behind Alternate Author Name(s): Fletcher, Maria Jane Jewsbury Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages OF A BEAUTIFUL POEM (THREE VOICES), by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lifeblood and spirit fire Last Line: Sing at home-coming. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Homecoming OH, WHERE ART THOU DREAMING, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet thou comest not! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Homecoming; Love OLD POEM: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At fifteen I went with the army Last Line: While tears fell and wetted my clothes Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief;homecoming; Sorrow;sadness OLYMPIAN ODES: 4. JASON'S FATHER SEES HIS RETURNING SON, by PINDAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And tears burst forth from those aged eyelids; for, with all his heart, Last Line: He rejoiced when he saw his son, the choicest and fairest of men Subject(s): Homecoming; Sons ON HOMEWARD WING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the soft south the constant bird comes back Last Line: Nay! Give me faith like wings to soar to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Heaven; Homecoming; Paradise ON THE KING'S RETURN TO WHITE-HALL, AFTER HIS SUMMER'S PROGRESS, 1684, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From those serene and rapturous joys Last Line: When they fix'd on his brows his imperial crown. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming ON THE QUEEN'S RETURN FROM THE LOW CONTRIES, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hallow the threshold, crown the posts anew! Last Line: Whose highest 'treason' is but highest love. Subject(s): Homecoming; Bravery; Queens ON TOURING HER HOMETOWN, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going away to where I'm from Last Line: Last condor, last chance Subject(s): Homecoming; Farewell OPERATIONS, by CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS Poem Source First Line: Surgeons plunder for infectious loot Last Line: Down on knees, she's come home! Subject(s): Homecoming; Presence OR DAWN ON THE IRISH COAST EXILE'S RETURN, by JOHN LOCKE Poem Source First Line: My soul to god' Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Homecoming OUT OF THE SOUTH, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Back home on the sly, as usual Last Line: And joined in the morning traffic, %headed somewhere else Subject(s): Family Life; Homecoming; Southern States PALM SUNDAY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So here come I Last Line: And collards in the air Subject(s): Palm Sunday; Homecoming; African Americans PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 11. IN HARBOUR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who arrives safe in harbour Last Line: Whirleth the whole of the drunken world. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE RETURN HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my life, a life of darkness Last Line: Keeping up his wretched dinning Subject(s): Hearts; Homecoming; Life; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips PLOT OF A SUPPOSITION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: When I had inspected the interior of the wardrobe, he said Last Line: When I had remembered to have supposed Subject(s): Homecoming; Hotels; Travel PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: Plow cemetery, downhill from the church Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming; Graveyards; Relatives; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers PLOW CEMETERY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plow: one of the three-mile inns that nicked Last Line: My life in time will seal shut like a scar Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Grandparents; Homecoming POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The PRAYER FOR HOMECOMING, by JULIUS POLYAENUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though myriad voices ever fill thine ear Last Line: In mine own land from all my weary woes. Subject(s): Homecoming PRODIGAL, by EDWARD DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come home! Our eyes grow feeble now Subject(s): Homecoming; Prodigal Son PRODIGALS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, in the book of books, today Last Line: "and he lives who once was dead." Subject(s): Repentance; Homecoming; Forgiveness REGRETS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, like wise ulysses tried Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Homecoming REGRETS: 1, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To walk with sober step, to raise the eyebrow Last Line: Unshaved and bankrupt, you return to france Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Homecoming RETURN, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: They who quit the soil with hopes swung high Last Line: As strong hands close again on rusting plow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers RETURN, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back again and again, the fields no Subject(s): Homecoming RETURN, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: Earth offers its greeting, with a paternal kiss Last Line: Inscribing fast circles of joy in the air Subject(s): Family Life; Happiness; Homecoming RETURN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming home was to that Last Line: The first stars renewed their theme %of time and death and a man's vows Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Homecoming RETURN IN WINTER, by EVELYN ANDREWS CALHOUN Poem Text First Line: Nothing had changed this outlook that had grown Last Line: The restless heart -- of quiet winter hills. Subject(s): Homecoming RETURN OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are coming home, they're coming Last Line: In their uniforms of blue. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War RETURN OF THE TROOPS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town is very gay to-day Last Line: I neither sped nor greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers RETURN TO HINTON, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years %and will you be Last Line: Or swim into %a mill-race for an unglimpsed fish? Subject(s): Homecoming RETURN TO NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far and free o'er the lifting sea, the lapsing wastes and Last Line: Love that sings, on the sea-wind's wings runs on to greet thee his very own. Subject(s): Homecoming; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips RETURN TO SHAOSHAN, by MAO TSE-TUNG Poem Source First Line: I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream Last Line: In the evening haze heroes are coming home\ Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I years had been from home Last Line: Fled gasping from the house. Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNING ALONE TO MY CHILDHOOD HOME, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: No need to ask about my old hometown Last Line: I peer out to see them but first my tears flow Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNING HOME, by KIM YON'GYUN Poem Source First Line: There's no one Last Line: For the exploration of a new path Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNING NATIVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Last Line: And gets the cement to deliver a kiss Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania RETURNING NATIVE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can you say about pennsylvania Subject(s): Homecoming; Pennsylvania RETURNING ON YANG LAKE, by ZHAO YI Poem Source First Line: My canvas sail billows slightly Last Line: And rapping the rhythm on boatsides, %going with me all the way home Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Homecoming RETURNING TO HIS OLD HOME, by OTOMO NO TABITO Poem Source First Line: The empty house Last Line: My heart chokes, %and the tears well up Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came home. Said nothing Subject(s): Homecoming RETURNS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came home. Said nothing Last Line: For now he's curled up, fallen asleep Subject(s): Homecoming RITORNO, by GIANNA PATRIARCA Poem Source First Line: I have come back to the house Last Line: Waiting %to go home Subject(s): Home; Homecoming; Past ROMANCE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went back, as to my relatives. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love - Complaints SAILING HOMEWARD, by CHAN FANG-SHENG Poem Text First Line: Cliffs that rise a thousand feet Last Line: And moved his brush to write a new song. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming SANIK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Can't even get a good flame up Last Line: My body felt so light Subject(s): Eskimos; Homecoming; Native Americans SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With satan joyously leading the way Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town. Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips SEARCHLIGHTS, by MILDRED SUTTON BRENEMAN Poem Text First Line: When I come back Last Line: And the path of faint perfume. Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory SENDING OFF MR. YING (1), by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: On foot I climbed up bei-mang's slopes Last Line: When I think on this place I used to live, %breath chokes within, I cannot speak Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am my verified and proper self Last Line: And home is where the cap comes off the bottle Subject(s): Homecoming; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Veterans; Drug Store; Apothecary SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am my verified and proper self Subject(s): Homecoming; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Veterans; Drug Store; Apothecary SERENADE IN A DRUGSTORE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am my verified and proper self Last Line: And home is where the cap comes off the bottle Subject(s): Homecoming; Pharmacy And Pharmacists; Veterans SHERMAN, by NOEL SMITH Poem Source First Line: After raising his eight kids on the coast Last Line: The swirling song of their grain Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Homecoming SLEEPING THEY BEAR ME, by ALFRED MOMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Sleep-bound Subject(s): Homecoming SONG OF MING-GAO: SENDING OFF MR. CHEN, A GENTLEMAN IN RETIREMENT, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seems there is someone, he longs for ming-gao Last Line: I will join you forever as a friend Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Homecoming SONG OF THE SAINTS AND ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gordon, the self-refusing Last Line: Die in a psalm of peace. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Homecoming; Peace; War; Dead, The SONG OF THE SOUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the garden flowers Last Line: Than in all the world beside. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Southern States; South (u.s.) SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 95, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and up, they all come up Last Line: In the golden weather. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Homecoming SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 96, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you in the gloaming, love Last Line: But all my wealth awaited me low-voiced and gentle-handed, love. Subject(s): Love; Homecoming SONNET: 11, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come home to me at last! Come home to me! Last Line: A splendour and a sacrament across! Subject(s): Homecoming STATE OF THE UNION: 4. RETURN OF THE HEROES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They have all come back as if nothing Last Line: They were not among the countless dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Generals; Heroism; Homecoming; State Rights; War STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In only one year of my coming home Last Line: My father and mother did not see Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Homecoming TAKING THE TRAIN HOME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk grew on the window. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Railways; Homecoming; Family Life; Fathers; Death; Relatives; Dead, The TANKA: HOMECOMING, by SOJIN TOKIJI TAKEI Poem Source First Line: A thin autumn fly Subject(s): Homecoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TEN DAY LEAVE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: House that holds me, household that I hold dear Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Homecoming THE BREAKDOWN, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun scanned the river with its lidless Subject(s): Homecoming THE CALL OF HOME, by VIDA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: At the hour of setting sun Last Line: When they answer the call of home. Subject(s): Homecoming THE COMPLAINT OF THE SOLDIERS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed Last Line: Them! Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; War THE CONVICT'S RETURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains and glens of fair scotland I'm with ye once again Last Line: I will bid ye all good-bye. Subject(s): Homecoming; Prisons & Prisoners; Reunions; Togetherness THE COORA FLOWER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am coming home Subject(s): Homecoming THE CRY OF THE OLD HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back! Last Line: And fall upon my heart! Subject(s): Homecoming; Houses THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 6, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rider lingered at the fence a moment Last Line: While the brown brook ran on by buried daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Regret; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DESIRE FOR SPACE TRAVEL IS A METAPHOR FOR ESCAPE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas eve, and how deliciously soft-shell crab Subject(s): Homecoming; Food & Eating; Love - Erotic; Christmas; Nativity, The THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG BRANCH, N.J., by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they came out with artifical turf Subject(s): Homecoming; Childhood Memories; Long Branch, New Jersey THE DOOR CLICKS. HE RETURNS TO ME', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it measureless pain? Subject(s): Veterans; Homecoming; Marriage; Fathers & Sons THE END OF THE SUNSET TRAIL, by ALMA C. BINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Daylight fading Last Line: At the end of the sunset trail. Subject(s): Evening; Homecoming; Sunset; Twilight THE EXILE'S RETURN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There mounts in squalls a sort of rusty mire Subject(s): Homecoming THE FARM ON THE LINKS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray o'er the pallid links, haggard and forsaken Last Line: Only the old home welcomes them again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers THE FEET OF PEOPLE WALKING HOME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Such resurrection pours! Subject(s): Homecoming THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was a friar of orders gray Last Line: "for since I have found thee, lovely youth, / we never more will part" Subject(s): Courtship;homecoming;pilgrims & Pilgrimages THE GREEK GALLEY, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of the sea, the sway of the song, the swing of the oar! Last Line: We are home at last! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE HAND IN THE DARK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How calm the spangled city spread below Last Line: Spreads over all and quenches us at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Peace; God; Homecoming THE HAUNTED HEART, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The haunted heart beseeches me Last Line: And continue my lonely journey into the sombre dark. Subject(s): Homecoming THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young donald bane, the gallant celt, unto the wars had gone Last Line: To the healths of lovely mhairi, and her faithful donald bane? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Homecoming THE HILLS ARE HOME; 'OLD HOME WEEK,' 1899, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget new hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam Last Line: Whatever skies above us rise, the hills, the hills are home! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Geography; Homecoming; Nature; New Hampshire THE HOLE WE'VE BEEN DIGGING, by MICHAEL TEIG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I've come home, put on all my shoes, Subject(s): Homecoming; Family Life; Relatives THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun! Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HOME-COMING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roman net grips land and sea Last Line: Of a young jew crucified? Subject(s): Christianity; Homecoming THE HOMECOMING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gruffly growled the wind on toller downland broad and bare Last Line: And ye'll soon forget to sock and sigh for dear daddee!' Subject(s): Homecoming THE HOMECOMING SINGER, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plane tilts in to nashville Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Homecoming; Colleges & Universities; Songs THE HOMEWARD ROAD, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH Poem Text First Line: Through memory's haze Last Line: The farther off the long-lost view. Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory THE HUDSON, by GEORGE SIDNEY HELLMAN Poem Text First Line: Where in its old historic splendor stands Last Line: And saw his mother waiting at the door. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Hudson Subject(s): Homecoming; Hudson River THE IRISH CONVICT'S RETURN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains and glens of old ireland Last Line: And help me through coming years. Subject(s): Homecoming; Prisons & Prisoners; Togetherness THE LAMP ON THE PRAIRIE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass lies flat beneath the wind Last Line: Her lamp was burning clear! Subject(s): Homecoming THE LAST SONG OF ARION, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look not upon me thus impatiently Last Line: Farewell to light,to life,to love,to thee. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Dolphins; Homecoming; Legends, Greek; Porpoises THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives THE LIFE OF TOWNS: DESERT TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sage came back in Last Line: Waiting itself Subject(s): City & Town Life; Homecoming; Waiting THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War THE MAN WHO DOES THE CHEERING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This war with spain reminds me o' the spring o' '61 Last Line: Come / back Subject(s): American Civil War;history;homecoming;u.s. - History; Historians THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The THE MOTHERING BLACKNESS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came home running Subject(s): Homecoming THE NABOB, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When silent time, wi' lightly foot Last Line: That minds ye o' lang syne. Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Homecoming; Scotland THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE ODYSSEY: BOOK 13. HOME-COMING, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now at the hour when brightest shone on high Last Line: Still wrapped, as fast in slumber deep he lay. Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PRODIGAL SON, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come home, come home, for your eyes are sore Last Line: Where the far-off country lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Homecoming THE RETURN, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sought the old scenes with eager feet Last Line: He cannot go back to his youth. Subject(s): Aging; Homecoming; Religion; Theology THE RETURN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he returned he saw the porch at first Subject(s): Homecoming THE RETURN OF THE GUARDS; JULY 9, 1856, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, they return - but who return? Last Line: Which shakes the euxine shore. Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Homecoming; Soldiers THE SAVOYARD'S RETURN, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Yonder is the well-known spot Last Line: To steal my heart from yonder vale. Subject(s): Homecoming THE SCAR, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long gone had I been Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Homecoming THE SHORTEST AND SWEETEST OF SONGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Homecoming THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 83, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With lilting heart she heralds his return Last Line: Were recompense for many past alarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Homecoming; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wild war's deadly blast was blawn Last Line: In day and hour of danger. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers THE SONG OF THE MAD WOMAN'S SON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the chestnut tree Last Line: I watch for daddy's sail on the tide. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors THE STORMY SEA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the twilight bat was flitting Last Line: "home returned to love and thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages THE TESTAMENT OF JOHN DAVIDSON: THE LAST JOURNEY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt the world a-spinning on its nave Last Line: "round the world and home again""." Subject(s): Homecoming THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough! Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller Last Line: That welcomes his return. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOICE OF HOME TO THE PRODIGAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! When wilt thou return Last Line: Oh! When wilt thou return? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Homecoming; Prodigal Son THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No face I look upon doth greet me Last Line: Again I'll seek my native land! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Homecoming; Wandering & Wanderers THE WATER'S CHANT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years ago I went into Subject(s): Homecoming THE WELCOME, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, let the fatted calf be killed Last Line: Would nere returne, had not the flood been out. Subject(s): Homecoming THE WELCOME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anither bairn cam' hame Last Line: In the hearts o' mither an' me! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Greetings; Homecoming; Love THE WELCOME BACK, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the hour that brings us home Last Line: If we are but sure of a welcome back Subject(s): Homecoming THE WELCOME HOME, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! They're come! Those merry bells Last Line: We blindly thought -- a foreign tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Homecoming THEORIES OF TIME AND SPACE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You can get there from here, though Subject(s): Homecoming; Gulfport, Mississippi THERE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do any hearts ache there, beyond the peaceful river? Last Line: Let us rejoice, -- we shall go home and know. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Homecoming THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNLUCE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is time to return to dunluce' Subject(s): Homecoming; Travel THEREFORE, PROUD ITALY, I, BY GOD'S GRACE, by LUIGI ALAMANNI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy; Homecoming; Italians THOUGH I GET HOME HOW LATE, HOW LATE!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beguiles the centuries of way! Subject(s): Homecoming THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 1, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now upon english soil I soon shall stand Last Line: Blesses the brave bleak land where he was born. Subject(s): Homecoming TO JOSEPH ATKINSON, ESQ.; FROM BERMUDA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daylight is gone-but, before we depart Last Line: Of the wave that would carry your wanderer home! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Homecoming TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER ... AFTER THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though dark are the prospects and heavy the hours Last Line: And beam through the cloud of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Corunna, Spain; Homecoming; War; Half-brothers TO PENELOPE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing impossible as this one time Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Homecoming; Separation; Isolation TO ROSE, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sister, between us lie Last Line: It takes to heal your heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Homecoming; Sisters TO THE BOSTON FRIGATE, ON LEAVING HALIFAX FOR ENGLAND, 1804, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With triumph this morning o boston! I hail Last Line: To the boat -- I am with thee -- columbia, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping TO THE RETURNING BRAVE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victorious knights without reproach or fear Last Line: That liberty may greet you all, her shields of land and wave. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers; World War I; First World War TOMORROW I LEAVE TO EL PASO, TEXAS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See my brother-in-law with a styled shirt Last Line: It is the same one but I am hopeful Subject(s): Homecoming; Dogs TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War TRANSIENT BARRACKS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer. Sunset. Someone is playing Last Line: And the thing about it is, it's real Subject(s): Army Life; Homecoming; World War Ii TWAS YESTERDAY AT EARLY DAWN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Spring; Winter; Homecoming ULYSSES RETURNS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ulysses has come back to me again Last Line: He never tells -- but penelope knows! Subject(s): Homecoming; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus UPON MASTER WALTER MONTAGUE HIS RETURN FROM TRAVEL, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lead the black bull to slaughter, with the boar Last Line: As laymen clasp their hands, we join our feet. Subject(s): Homecoming; Exiles UPON THE KING'S HAPPY RETURN FROM SCOTLAND, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So breaks the day, when the returning sun Last Line: In thankful sacrifice for your return. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Homecoming; Scotland - Relations With England VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 11. HAMBURG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day that I come home Last Line: Beating under the foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Homecoming VIOLIN SONGS: OUR SHIP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a great ship coming home Last Line: Is steering home this way! Subject(s): Homecoming; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean VISIT TO A RURAL TOWN, by SHIN KYONGNIM Poem Source First Line: A market day it was, more deserted Last Line: The day I came to visit my wife's grave Subject(s): Homecoming VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was. Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism W'EN I GITS HOME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's moughty tiahsome layin' 'roun' Last Line: "ol' man, come home!" Subject(s): Homecoming WAITING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come, o come,' the mother pray'd Last Line: Stopp'd the st. John's wood omnibus. Subject(s): Homecoming WALKING THOUGHTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sidewalk is growing soft. I am growing soft Subject(s): Conformity; Homecoming; Solitude; Loneliness WANDERER'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There will be, when I come home, through the hill-gap / in the west Last Line: The ease of this hunger of heart there will be when I come home! Subject(s): Homecoming WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WAY BACK, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The sound the form the way it is Last Line: Sleep to take us way back home Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Roads; Travel; Youth WE HAVE COME HOME, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But to have dignity Subject(s): Homecoming WE STARTED HOME, MY SON AND I, by JAAN KAPLINSKI Poem Source Last Line: And beside the moon, a single star Subject(s): Homecoming WE'RE HOMEWARD BOUND, by MARY INGERSOLL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: When autumn leaves are glowing Last Line: Chime softly through the night. Subject(s): Homecoming; Homesickness WEEPING OVER MY HUSBAND MENGDUAN ON RETURNING HOME, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: The year was drawing to an end when I returned from a far-off land Last Line: I'd look upon death as homecoming and not fear its pain Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Marriage WELCOME HOME, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor, goal of millions of dreamers Last Line: A brotherhood complete. Subject(s): Homecoming; World War I; First World War WHEN I GO HOME, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I go home, green, green will glow the grass Last Line: When I go home! Subject(s): Homecoming WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a happy time coming Last Line: When the boys come home. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers WILLFUL HOMING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is getting dark and time he drew to a house Last Line: And to those concerned he may seem a little late Subject(s): Homecoming WILLFUL HOMING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is getting dark and time he drew to a house Last Line: And to those concerned he may seem a little late Subject(s): Homecoming WINTER OF HEAVEN, WINTER OF ASH; THE VISIT HOME, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not yet light in wisconsin Last Line: While hope goes out silent onto the ice Subject(s): Homecoming; Wisconsin YOU ALSO, NIGHTINGALE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petrarch dreams of pebbles Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Homecoming; Nature; Francesco Petrarca YOUTHFUL FIGURE COMES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Another chimera is walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Homecoming |
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