Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CARAVAN OF LONGING, by IWAN GOLL Poet's Biography First Line: Our far-stretching caravan of longing Last Line: To overwhelm us, we would cry with more terrible thirst! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Longing | ||||||||
Our far-stretching caravan of longing Never finds an oasis of nymphs and shadows! Love singes us, birds of anguish Bite forever, tearing our hearts out. Ah, we know of cool winds and waters: Everywhere might Elysium be! But we wander, we wander ever in longing! Somewhere a man leaps from a window To snatch a star, and perishes for it, Someone searches in the panopticon For his waxen dream and loves it But each parching heart is a Land of Fire. Ah, were the floods of Nile and Niagara To overwhelm us, we would cry with more terrible thirst! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ABOARD! ABOARD! by DONALD JUSTICE CHANEL NO. 5 by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE WOMEN WITH FABLED HAIR by MADELINE DEFREES WE WHO WERE EXECUTED by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS by LINDA GREGG |
|