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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 house—they'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