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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows
Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home.
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English


A FANTASY, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was an arab
Last Line: And all my woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Arabs; Homesickness


A NEW ZEALAND REGRET, by ELEANOR ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come! In this cool retreat
Last Line: Sung my soul across the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Singing Shepherd, The
Subject(s): Homesickness


A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG, by DION BOUCICAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm very happy where I am
Last Line: Oh! Nobody but me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner
Variant Title(s): The Exiled Mother
Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; Homesickness


APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by KATHERINE R. MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies
Last Line: To go back home again!
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life


BEHIND MY PARENTS' HOUSE, by IKUTAMABE TARUNKUNI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Until I come back
Subject(s): Homesickness


BRUMANA, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh shall I never never be home again?
Last Line: And dream and dream that I am home again!
Subject(s): Homesickness


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! - but thou, alas
Last Line: And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloy'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Homesickness; Travel


CITY CLERK, by THOMAS ASHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis strange how my head runs on! 'tis a puzzle to understand
Last Line: A simple farmer's lad, among the girls in the hay
Subject(s): Homesickness


COCONUT, by SHIMAZAKI TOSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From a far-off island whose name I do not know
Last Line: Endlessly moving tide, feeling with me, %will I ever return to my home
Subject(s): Homesickness


COMING BACK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I daresay if I were to tell
Last Line: I miss the little plates of brass!
Subject(s): Homesickness


DEPARTURE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go now thy way, but whereso'er thou art
Last Line: Is vacant till thou come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Homesickness


DUNA, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a little lad
Last Line: Call me home.
Subject(s): Homesickness


EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: 4, by CAI YAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not a day, not a night when I do not long for my home
Last Line: My fourth song is finished, and my suffering more intense
Subject(s): Homesickness


EPIGRAM, by ASS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been a gangrel bodie, I've been to sicilie
Last Line: Och, I'd suner be at hame in ma ain countrie
Subject(s): Homesickness; Scottish Translations


EPIGRAM: EXILE, by ASS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes %I have been there
Last Line: Home hugs close
Subject(s): Homesickness


FOGGY DEW, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A splendid place is london
Last Line: And I'd travel home to ireland and the foggy dew
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland


FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF 'WRITTEN WHILE VIEWING GREEN-CALYXED PLUM...', by LIU SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Homesickness, spring thoughts - both lie aslant
Last Line: To sit and lie down with you to admire the fragrant blossoms
Subject(s): Homesickness; Plums


FUSION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ulam in america
Last Line: The chestnut trees of lvov
Subject(s): Homesickness; Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poles In America; Teaching And Teachers


GOD'S HILLS, by WILLIAM NOEL HODGSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In our hill-country of the north
Last Line: And we shall see the hills again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Melbourne, Edward
Subject(s): Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


HEARING GEESE ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Northern geese fly to the south - for what do they hurry>
Last Line: My heart is set on returning home - hopelessly I grieve
Subject(s): Geese; Homesickness; Migration


HILLS OF HOME, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Name me no names for my disease
Last Line: "seeking again those hills."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HILLS OF HOME, by MALCOLM HEMPHREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Yon hills are filled with sunlight
Last Line: And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War


HOME THOUGHT, by KIM SANG-YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a deserted mountain path
Last Line: I long for my hometown %that does not exist
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOME THOUGHTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If will had wings / how fast I'd flee
Last Line: Where my own love dwells.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Ireland; Irish


HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green gardens in laventie
Last Line: Home, what a perfect place!
Subject(s): England; Homesickness; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; English; First World War


HOME YEARNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're writing to-night to the old, old home
Last Line: And we're wiring for carfare home!
Subject(s): Gambling; Homesickness; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting


HOME-LONGINGS: GWEEDORE, COUNTY DONEGAL, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I, wandering hither listless from afar
Last Line: And take farewell of all without a sigh.
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOME-SICK, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O time, great healer! Canst thou still
Last Line: Twill be a grave in spite of these.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there
Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Variant Title(s): April In England
Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


HOMESICK, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comfort me with apples!
Last Line: Comfort me with apples!
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK, by CHANG MAN-YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk seaward
Last Line: Let me mend the ripped tent of memory %sitting idly on the beach
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet to him, who all the week
Last Line: Before the door of his own home?
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK, by HELMUT HEISSENBUTTEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the clouds above the garden in papenburg
Last Line: For the rumble of nights without sleep
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK, by HOWARD WEEDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I long to see a cotton-field
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK (ON A RAINY DAY), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, tell me not of any mirth
Last Line: Along the orchard wall.
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: De railroad bridge's / a sad song in de air
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Railways; Trains


HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: De railroad bridge's %a sad song in de air
Last Line: To keep from cryin' %I opens ma mouth an' laughs
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads


HOMESICK IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the glamour of english towns
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICK IN HEAVEN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go seek thine earth-born sisters, - thus the voice
Last Line: And sorrow's discords sweeten into song!
Subject(s): Heaven; Homesickness; Paradise


HOMESICK IN TEXAS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandsir' fell out of his cornfield and broke his neck
Last Line: Only ole pine top can fill.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Texas; Wellesley College


HOMESICKNESS, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a land so far away
Last Line: I must go back.
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICKNESS, by KIM KIRIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Way beyond the mountains and clouds
Last Line: In the roadside trees %someone calling a calf home
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICKNESS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where I am, the halls are gilded
Last Line: Where I fain would be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Homesickness


HOMESICKNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in a region of valleys fair
Last Line: And die in the land where I was young.
Subject(s): Death; Homesickness; Life; Youth; Dead, The


I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight
Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill"
Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States


IN CITY STREETS, by ADA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping
Last Line: Through the peaty soil and tinkling heather-bells.
Subject(s): Country Life; Homeless; Homesickness; London


IN SUGARIN'-TIME, by HELEN MARIA WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's sugarin' time up country; an' settin' here in town
Last Line: It's sugarin' time up country: I'm homesick, that is all.
Subject(s): Homesickness


IT IS DEAD - FIND IT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Themself - as dead
Variant Title(s): Poem: 417; Poem: 43
Subject(s): Homesickness


LAMENT, by LIU CHI-HSUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My family married me off
Last Line: Floating home again!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Homesickness


LONG FOR HOME, by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Long for home and hate your homeland
Last Line: Like rain upon the ocean %fall your tears
Subject(s): Exiles; Homesickness


LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee
Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs


LOYALTY, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hame, hame, hame! Oh hame fain wad I be
Last Line: O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree!
Variant Title(s): It's Hame, And It's Hame
Subject(s): Home; Homesickness


MAURYA'S SONG, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rushes that grow by the black water
Last Line: In the old country!
Subject(s): Homesickness


MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know that land, her lemon groves in bloom?
Last Line: Our journey goes! Good father, off today!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Memory


MIGNON'S SONG, FR. WILHELM MEISTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know you that land where forest shadows fold
Last Line: Points our direction: father, let us wander
Subject(s): Homesickness; Memory; Wanderers And Wandering


MIRAGE, by A. LEWIS BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes when traveling a dusty road
Last Line: Again they see -- their home.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mirages


MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


MOVING WITH CHILDREN, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should you prepare them for homesickness?
Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Children; Homesickness; Childhood


MY HEART, by KIM TONGMYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart is a lake
Last Line: When the wind rises again
Subject(s): Homesickness


MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun shines bright on our old kentucky home
Last Line: For our old kentucky home far away.
Variant Title(s): My Old Kentucky Home, Good-night!;my Old Kentucky Home, Negro Song
Subject(s): Absence; African Americans; Homesickness; Kentucky; Separation; Isolation; Negroes; American Blacks


MY TOWN, by SIBYL CROLY HANCHETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am homesick for a town I have not seen
Last Line: Die homesick for a town I have not seen.
Subject(s): Homesickness


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 14, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day those gone are farther withdrawn
Last Line: I long to turn back to my native town, %I wish to return, but there is no way
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homesickness; Transience


NOSTALGIA, by LAURA M. GRADICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am homesick for the ocean
Last Line: And my humble, seaside home!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Nostalgia; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


NOW THE LENGTHENING TWILIGHTS HOLD, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Homesickness


O THAT I'D HAD, by MONONOBE FURUMARO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I could have seen and thought
Subject(s): Homesickness


O WONDER OF THE SEA, FR. OMPHALE AND HERAKLES, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His heart were lightened I believe, to see us
Last Line: "that, that, has dreamed my soul!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Homesickness


OH! THE OAK AND THE ASH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A north country maid up to london had strayed
Last Line: Are all growing green in my north country
Subject(s): Country Life;homesickness


ON THE BORDER IN LATE SPRING, THINKING OF HOME, by DONG SHAOYU    Poem Source                    
First Line: New grass fills the long embankment
Last Line: Night by night recalling its southern perch
Subject(s): Homesickness


ON THE GORGEOUS HILLS OF MORNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mock with silent steps these empty places
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Nature; Homesickness; Scotland


OUTSIDE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the sprawled body of the derailed great northern freight car
Last Line: And sick for home
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Railroads; Railways; Trains


OUTSIDE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the sprawled body of the derailed great northern freight car
Last Line: And sick for home
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Railroads


PARIS, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lashed to the wheel of night
Last Line: But where we are not, there is night
Subject(s): Homesickness; Paris, France


PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't try america; I've tried it
Last Line: To england I return to live.
Subject(s): Homesickness; United States; America


PRAIRIE DAWN, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars
Last Line: A sudden sickness for the hills of home
Subject(s): Homesickness


RIVER FABLE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is about a cuban boy who cuoldn't follow
Last Line: About a cuban boy who can never go home
Subject(s): Cuban Americans; Homesickness


SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of a boat
Last Line: Ah me!
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SHOW ME THE WAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rose-apple is in fruit
Last Line: Husband, show me the way
Subject(s): Homesickness; Labor And Laborers; Marriage


SHULE AROON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I wish I were on yonder hill
Last Line: "shule, shule, shule aroon, etc."
Subject(s): Homesickness


SONG, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord of elbe, on elbe hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Homesickness


SONG FROM THE BACKWOODS, by TIMOTHY DANIEL (DONILL) SULLIVAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the canadian woods we've met
Last Line: "ireland, boys, hurrah!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, Timothy Daniel
Subject(s): Homesickness


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 2, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye flags of piccadilly
Last Line: You were underneath me now!
Subject(s): Homesickness; London


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come home, come home! And where is home for me
Last Line: Indeed our home?
Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 3 [LATER VERSION], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come home, come home! And where an home hath he
Last Line: Is there indeed, or is there not a shore %that is our home?
Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 4, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green fields of england! Wheresoe'er
Last Line: Dear home in england, won at last.
Subject(s): England; Homesickness; English


SONGS IN ABSENCE: 5, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, come back, behold with straining mast
Last Line: The strong ship follows its appointed way.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Sea Voyages


SONNET: TO L.T. IN FLORENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You by the arno shape your marble dream
Last Line: For one poor cowslip or anemone.
Subject(s): Absence; Florence, Italy; Homesickness; Separation; Isolation


STILL NIGHT THOUGHTS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight in front of my bed
Last Line: I lift my eyes to watch the mountain moon, %lower them and dream of home
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Homesickness


STORM, by BRENT TOADLENA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The psychos and weirdos paced
Last Line: They've always had that power over me
Subject(s): Homesickness


STRETHA, by EDITH HURLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The high hills of stretha
Last Line: Forever lost to me.
Subject(s): Homesickness


SWISS HOME-SICKNESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "wherefore so sad and faint, my heart!"
Last Line: As in my own bright land
Subject(s): Homesickness;switzerland; Swiss


TANKA, by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A day when I yearn for home
Last Line: Gloom of the smoky sky
Subject(s): Homesickness


THE CALL OF HOME, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah scotland, my heart strings are twined all about thee
Last Line: I hear thy voice calling me, calling me home!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Scotland


THE EXILE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sick of the mongol and tartar
Last Line: Oh, lord, but I want to go home!
Subject(s): Homesickness


THE HOMESICK COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm tired and sick of the city
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Homesickness


THE STREAMS, by FRANCES BROWN (1816-1864)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your murmurs bring the pleasant breath
Last Line: Amid the rush of streams!
Subject(s): Streams; Ireland; Homesickness; Irish


THORNY ISLAND, by MARGUERITE WARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take me back to thorny
Last Line: I would set my sail tonight.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Islands


TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours
Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River


VAGABOND'S VERSE, by GRAYCE COLE CLYMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for me the bright, clean hearth nor a woman's clinging
Last Line: For I'm a vagabond -- set apart -- and my home's where I hang my hat!
Subject(s): Guilt; Homesickness; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


VISITING, by ANNA PATTEN LOCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis fine to go a - visiting
Last Line: And take the long road home.
Subject(s): Guests; Homesickness; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


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


WHERE YANGZI MEETS THE HAN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wanderer, homesick, where yangzi meets han
Last Line: They need not take to the distant road
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Homesickness


WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill
Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas
Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields?
Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians