Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GAULZERY (GALSWORTHY) MOOR, by JOHN GALSWORTHY


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GAULZERY (GALSWORTHY) MOOR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moor of my name [or, fathers]- [where] the road leads high
Last Line: And homed him here, and gave me name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Moors (land); Heritage; Heredity


MOOR of my name, where the road leads high,
Thro' heather and bracken, gorse and grass,
Up to the crown of the western sky,
A questing traveller, slow, I pass.
Silent and lonely the darkening moor,
The beasts are bedded, the birds are gone,
Never a farm, nor a cottage door,
And I on the road alone -- alone;
And the south-west wind is beginning to croon,
And a listening lonely pine-tree sways;
And behind it is hanging a golden moon
For a resting sign at the cornerways.
A thousand years since the stranger came,
And homed him here, and gave me name.





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