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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PILGRIM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: Across the trodden continent of years Last Line: Only thy devotee! Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims | |||
A CROSS the trodden continent of years To shrines of long ago, My heart, a hooded pilgrim, turns with tears— For could I know That in the temple of thy constancy There still may burn a taper lit for me, 'Twould be a star in starless heaven, to show That Heaven could be. Bent with the weight of all that I desired And all that I forswore, My heart roams, mendicant, forlorn and tired, From door to door, Begging of every stern-faced memory An alms of pity—just to come to thee, No more thy knight, thy champion no more— Only thy devotee! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 by NORMAN DUBIE THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 by NORMAN DUBIE GOAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE PILGRIM by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE PILGRIM [SONG], FR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by JOHN BUNYAN UP-HILL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AT ELLIS ISLAND by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH FAREWELL TO THE PILGRIMS by THEODORE M. BAKKE THE PILGRIM by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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