Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 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 | ||||||||
Once a thronged throughfare that wound afar By shining streams, and waving fields and woods, And festal cities and sweet solitudes, All whither, onward to the utmost star: Now a blind alley, lurking by the shore Of stagnant ditches, walled with reeking crags, Where one old heavy-hearted vagrant lags, Footsore, at nightfall limping to Death's door. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN |
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