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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONESOME, by TOM G. MCGEE Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen the dove
Last Line: They're lonesome!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: Have you seen the dove
Last Line: They're lonesome!
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
Have you seen the dove
Whose mate has not returned
To the nest after feeding?
There he sits on the eggs, knowing
That now alone he must rear the young;
She will not return. He mourns in song.
Have you seen the wild goose
Flying slowly alone, looking this way and that
Seemingly searching for something gone?
The hunter's gun took his life-long mate
And now he will pine for her to the end.
He too, is lonesome.
Have you heard the cowboy sing in the saddle,
Or seen the sailor dreaming on the bridge --
The plowman looking to the horizon?
Each mind is filled with thoughts
Of something in the long ago ...
Something, or someone, missed;
They're lonesome!
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