Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOMEWARD, by GUSTAVE KOBBE


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First Line: Clouds crimson-barred
Last Line: Of a kiss. — and I am home!
Subject(s): Homecoming


CLOUDS crimson-barred
Like the woods red-scarred
On a hill-slope in the fall;

A wild, shrill note
From a sea-bird's throat
And a heron's mournful call;

A murmuring reach
With a curving beach,
Like an eyebrow of the sea;

A prow up-curled,
A sail half-furled,
And the peace of a sheltered lee;

A sudden hush
And the last deep flush
Of dusk in the swarthy west;

A fringe of sedge
Near the water's edge,
And the cot where my loved ones nest;

A sweet, low call,
And a faint footfall,
And a form as I swiftly come;

Near mine a face,
Then the tender grace
Of a kiss. — And I am home!





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