Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS



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LIFE, by                     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.





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