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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a bed of gravel moving
Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich
Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A NON-WANDER SONG, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do' wanna wander, I do' wanna go
Last Line: I do' wanna wander, I do' wanna go.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A ROVER'S SONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowdrift of the mountains
Last Line: Joscelyn for me!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A SONG OF ISRAEL, by JAMES HAZARD CUTHBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O israel! Wanderer through the weary years
Last Line: Their warfare done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cuthbert, J. H.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A TRAMP'S CONFESSION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We huddled in the mission
Last Line: Fergive the lie I lied!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From wynyard's gap the livelong day
Last Line: Haunting the western moor.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood
Last Line: She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
Variant Title(s): An Autumn Song
Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Fall; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A VAGABOND SONG, by JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's ho! For a song as wild and free
Last Line: And the love that lies in her eyes of blue!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A VAGABOUND, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vagabond is a newcomer
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond
Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A WAIF, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know what it is to be a vagrant born?
Last Line: With its warm and lingering good-bye.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, to have a little house!
Last Line: Out of the wind's and the rain's way.
Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


AUVERGNAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man was half a clown
Last Line: Hilaire belloc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day
Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer.
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


BALLADE OF DREAMS TRANSPOSED, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some may like to be shut in a cage
Last Line: Then I'll marry and settle down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From their folded mates they wander far
Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue


BOES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I waited today for a freight train to pass
Last Line: He had left over when he got drunk.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


CASHING IN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a glimpse of his frightened face
Last Line: I know that the one who pardoned the thief will be merciful to him!
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


DISCOVERY, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bugler morn shall wind his horn
Last Line: New, new till the dawn is old!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ENVOY, TO 'MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA', by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose furthest footstep never strayed
Last Line: The only purpose of the earth.
Variant Title(s): The Wanderer
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple
Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


GOLDEN LAND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from home alone I wander
Last Line: Dwells my heart in that golden land.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


GORGIO LAD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gorgio lad, my tribe are waiting
Last Line: Gorgio lad, good-bye.
Subject(s): Farewell; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


GYPSY-HEART, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: My grandsire was a vagabond
Last Line: A wanderer to the last.
Subject(s): Freedom; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


HOBOES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't know where we're going but we're on our way
Last Line: With some half a million others like ourselves!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within
Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street.
Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to go wandering. Who shall declare
Last Line: Wandering. ...
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Mountain Climbing; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


IN DER FREMDE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Wild-hearted wand'rer
Last Line: Thou nevermore shalt see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


IN VAGABOND GOLDEN AND VAGABOND GRAY, by S. M. HARRINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road of the vagabond's mottled and winding
Last Line: In vagabond golden and vagabond gray!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


JUNGLE, by RICHMOND GEORGE ANTHONY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is where drifters break their trek, come night
Last Line: And bide the highball of the climate freight.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


LIFE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a thronged throughfare that wound afar
Last Line: Footsore, at nightfall limping to death's door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


LONG GONE, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I laks yo' kin' of lovin'
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


LOVING VAGABONDS, by NORA BYRNES HEGI    Poem Text                    
First Line: He played wild airs on his guitar
Last Line: Life holds for him no charms.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


MATINS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky:
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


NIGHT WANDERERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: They hear the bell of midnight toll
Last Line: And cough like giants, deep and hoarse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


NOVEMBER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The month of the drowned dog. After long rain the land
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ON MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S JULIET, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been wandering in enchanted ground
Last Line: From other lips, sweet lady, than from thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night
Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb.
Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


POETRY OF DEPARTURES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot
Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly.
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ROVER'S SONG, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide
Last Line: Hurrah, boys! Hurrah, boys! The rover is free!
Subject(s): Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SACRIFICE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Those delicate wanderers
Last Line: The silence of the height.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SEPTEMBER TRANSIENT, by R. P. HARRISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a mellow pleasantness about
Last Line: Where laughing autumn's feet have lightly tript.
Subject(s): September; Transience; Wandering & Wanderers; Impermanence; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SESTINA OF THE TRAMP ROYAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all
Last Line: "so write, before I die, ""'e liked it all!"
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road
Last Line: Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 1. THE VAGABOND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give to me the life I love
Last Line: And the road below me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us
Last Line: Cold stars and the whores.
Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE BOXCAR, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the boxcar rumbling and rolling afar
Last Line: To dare the ups and downs of the road with me.
Subject(s): Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE CALL OF THE ROAD, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet may it is come, and the trees are in bloom
Last Line: Ah, wherefore so lovely, wide world of my dreams?
Subject(s): Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE DEAD ROVER, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so he is done with roaming
Last Line: He'll wander the astral trail!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE GLEANERS, by GERTRUDE HAHN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come at nightfall with a furtive air
Last Line: But stoop and pick, and stoop and pick again.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown
Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States


THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone
Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States


THE HAPPY WANDERER, by PERCY ADDLESHAW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is the happy wanderer who goes
Last Line: The sign o' the grave, a cool and quiet inn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemingway, Percy
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE HARVEST FLY'S COMPLAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sun stares hot, unsparing like / a lidless golden eye
Last Line: Though I know that I am in for being done as heretofore!
Subject(s): Harvest; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead
Last Line: The home-returning!
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE JOLLY TRAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I am a jolly tramp: I whine to you
Last Line: Was I, but whined in truth most pitiful.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these
Last Line: For him who travels without a load.
Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE LAST VAGABOND, by J. N. GREELY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, we swung out of the courtyard gate
Last Line: "but I -- the road's my bride."
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE OLD TRAMP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this dark ditch my life shall pass away
Last Line: The poor old tramp now dies your bitter foe.
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE OLD VAGABOND, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in the ditch my bones I'll lay
Last Line: The aged beggar dies your bitter foe!
Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE PASSER-BY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fragrant, moonlit night
Last Line: All silent in the night.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE PERMANENT BRAND, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a maverick runnin' free
Last Line: The first class lot from the mavericks!
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE QUEST, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You've been a wanderer, you
Last Line: How I look for your melodies!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE RAGGEDY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the raggedy man! He works fer pa
Last Line: Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Handy Men; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A town lies in the valley
Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise.
Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE TRAMP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He came from where he started
Last Line: "oh, I come from where I started!"
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poverty; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE TRAMPS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped god's land together
Last Line: The tragic road to anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yukon Territory; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABOND, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind is in the wood, / the sap hath stirred
Last Line: They used to do!
Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABOND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Tormented day and night by fleas
Last Line: And eat up all the bloody food!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABOND, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the pools where the grayling rise
Last Line: I'm lord of a dozen counties.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABOND, by ANNA GERNANDT FURNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He's only a vagabond, and from place to place does roam
Last Line: He has no worries, and he is free.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABOND GROWN OLD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: So warm the lighted windows glow
Last Line: And I have known the road in spring.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABONDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What saw you in your flight to-day
Last Line: Ere you enter your slumber-land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Wandering & Wanderers; Flying; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VAGABONDS, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We are two travellers, roger and I
Last Line: The sooner the better for roger and me!
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDER-LOVERS, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the world with marna!
Last Line: Wander-bride of mine!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by ZOE AKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ships are lying in the bay
Last Line: In one small grave to lie.
Subject(s): Graves; Wandering & Wanderers; Tombs; Tombstones; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): "chorus;""doom Is Dark And Deeper Than Any Sea-dingle"";
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On unknown paths I falter forth
Last Line: And all my help lies in a cry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rare delight of seeing
Last Line: And where its voices call, thither my steps must be!
Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a waif I' the hills at close of day
Last Line: And all the dust that has been and shall be.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is homeless as the wind
Last Line: Hope's golden chariot wheels.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a mountain height, far from the sea
Last Line: Sing, o my home! Sing, o my home, of thee!
Subject(s): Nature; Patriotism; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER, by SCHMIDT VON LUBECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come down from the hills alone
Last Line: "there, where thou art not, there is bliss!"
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER AND THE NIGHT-FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call back your odours, lovely flowers!
Last Line: "looking alone to heaven!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who comest from on high
Last Line: To my bosom come again!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush'd on the hill
Last Line: Soon wilt find rest.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing
Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day."
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER'S SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My garden is the road-side free
Last Line: A wealth I cannot squander.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wizard sat within his hall
Last Line: It was the wandering jew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Memory; Wandering & Wanderers; Wandering Jew; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WHITE ROAD UP ATHIRT THE HILL, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When high hot zuns da strik right down
Last Line: The white roads up athirt the hills.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WINDING ROAD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beckoning road winds round the hill
Last Line: My blithely winding road.
Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THROUGH THE WATERS, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the forest, through the forest, oh! Who would not like to roam
Last Line: Like racing with the gull upon a broad and dashing sea!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TIMBERLINE, by JESSIE M. GILMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When twilight falls on timberline
Last Line: As sweetly as a vesper hymn.
Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Butterfly
Last Line: While with thee I wander!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TO HIS FRIEND IN ELYSIUM, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long you wandered on the dusky plain
Last Line: About the gate, or labor at the oar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TO ONE WHO WALKS THE HIGHROAD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think no thought of her
Last Line: What is any woman's whim?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow
Last Line: Where it still continues to spin.
Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TWO STREETS, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today, while walking through a hardened street
Last Line: Today I walked upon a velvet street.
Subject(s): Asphalt; Streets; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Concrete; Pavements; Avenues; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the mud two strangers came
Last Line: For heaven and the future´s sakes
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It little profits that, an idle king
Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest
Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


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


VAGABONDIA, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off with the fetters
Last Line: Free!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


VAGRANTS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long time ago, we two set out
Last Line: But no. We wander, aimless, vagrant!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


VERLAINE, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avid of life and love, insatiate vagabond
Last Line: In some fair heaven the christ has set apart for fauns.
Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERER'S NIGHT SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace, on the hills forsaken
Last Line: You, too, shall rest.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERERS, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As o'er the hill we roam'd at will
Last Line: That chickens had been miss'd at syllabub farm.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I rose in the early dawn
Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go!
Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERERS' HYMN, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, from thee we would not stray
Last Line: In thy great heights and depths of love!
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERING THOUGHTS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing o'er the mountain
Last Line: Ecstatic bliss in one elysian field.
Subject(s): Love; Thought; Wandering & Wanderers; Thinking; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERLUST, by ELINOR G. CHAPLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the cars that hum along at night
Last Line: But travel never equals coming home.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERLUST, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the east the sunrise, beyond the west the sea
Last Line: You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the sky.
Variant Title(s): Wander-thirst
Subject(s): Faith; Wandering & Wanderers; Belief; Creed; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk
Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh.
Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WHEN ZEPHRYS BLOW, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When zephyrs blow and softly bring
Last Line: When zephyrs blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T.
Subject(s): Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WITH THE MAJESTY OF MOUNTAINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds cry to the peaks; trees hush, elate
Last Line: My stript soul is lifted ... A new tongue I speak.
Subject(s): Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


YOUR MIRROR FRAME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks I see your mirror frame
Last Line: To-night with all the rest of them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


YOUR TREASURE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years - you say - you had a quest
Last Line: Your holy, high love victory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Grief; Victory; Gime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Sorrow; Sadness