Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOING BACK HOME, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing sadder than returning Last Line: Steeple, and in its shade were planted people who once were chums of mine. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Retrospection | ||||||||
THERE'S nothing sadder than returning, responsive to a heartfelt yearning, to scenes we used to know; but lately to such scenes I wandered, and with an aching heart I pondered o'er things of long ago. I used to know a girl named Daisy, who was so smooth she drove me crazy; of her for years I'd dreamed; and always in my mental vision, angelic, beautiful, elysian, and bright with youth she seemed. And in my recent tour I found her with seven husky sons around her, and she was bent and gray, and worn from cooking hams and fishes, and washing everlasting dishes, and helping men pitch hay. And all the lads who with me gamboled, and through the melon patches rambled, on bygone starry nights, were stale, from all their toil and straining, and hobbled up and down complaining of aches and chigger bites. The town itself was there, unchanging, the river down its course was ranging, by hoary elm and pine; the old stone church still reared its steeple, and in its shade were planted people who once were chums of mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLAINT OF A YOUNG LAWYER by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE SPIRIT IS TRUE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE RETROSPECT by MARY MOSES MUNDT CITIES OF GOLD by MICHAEL BOWDEN FLASHBACK, 1973 by PAMELA GEMIN MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE by EDWARD LEAR |
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