Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I SHALL RETURN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poet's Biography First Line: I shall return again; I shall return Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Homecoming | ||||||||
I shall return again; I shall return To laugh and love and watch with wonder-eyes At golden noon the forest fires burn, Wafting their blue-black smoke to sapphire skies. I shall return to loiter by the streams That bathe the brown blades of the bending grasses, And realize once more my thousand dreams Of waters rushing down the mountain passes. I shall return to hear the fiddle and fife Of village dances, dear delicious tunes That stir the hidden depths of native life, Stray melodies of dim remembered runes. I shall return, I shall return again, To ease my mind of long, long years of pain. | Discover our poem explanations - click here!Other Poems of Interest...TOMORROW I LEAVE TO EL PASO, TEXAS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA COMING HOME AT TWILIGHT IN LATE SUMMER by JANE KENYON THE NEGATIVES by PHILIP LEVINE THE WATER'S CHANT by PHILIP LEVINE THE EXILE'S RETURN by ROBERT LOWELL THE RETURN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TAKING THE TRAIN HOME by WILLIAM MATTHEWS |
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