Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WANDERER, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography First Line: You pour for me the bright red wine Last Line: FarewellI follow after it. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers | ||||||||
YOU pour for me the bright red wine: I may not pause for rest with you, And I must go where the moonshine Falls on dim meadows, wet with dew. Oh! sweet is love and pleasant speech, The warm hearth and the brimming cup But the waves sob on the low beach, The tide's in and the moon is up! And many's the town I've come unto When the journey of the day was done; But ere twilight to morning grew Or the skies quickenedI was gone. And many's the winding road I've trod, And grassy track and endless plain But the same way and the same road I may not travel twice again. Oh! place your heart within my hand, I'll carry it all the weary way, Until we reach that other land I saw in dreams but yesterday. But if you give your heart to me, 'Twere better you had cast it out Into the gnawing mouth of the sea When the wind whirls the foam about. And if you give your hearteach year You'll watch grass grow on the spring's track, And winter's hobbling steps draw near But I shall never more come back. You'll see day set and the slow mist About forlorn grey woodlands curled, Whilst I, whose lips you have not kissed, Am wandering on the brink of the world. When the black frosts creep coldly in, And the loud-laughing earth is dumb You'll watch the shivering dawn begin, You'll call for me; I shall not come. Oh! never more by hill or down, Wind-trodden moor or secret place, Or far forgotten fairy town Shall you for ever see my face. Farewell: the sun has risen, blind, A flickering lamp by weak hands lit. Heard ye that laughter on the wind? FarewellI follow after it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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