Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WANDERER, by GEORGE H. SOULE JR.


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THE WANDERER, by                    
First Line: Oh tell me, tell me, have you seen
Last Line: "and rest him from his race."
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University


"OH tell me, tell me, have you seen
A girl go by this way?
Her eyes are deep as if from sleep
She half-awakened lay;
Her hair floats golden in the breeze
Around her radiant face,
As if the sun, his journey run,
Had lingered for a space
To fondly kiss a last good-night
And rest him from his race.

"Her dress flew lightly in the wind
And singing did she pass,
Wandering slow as faint airs blow,
Across the bowing grass,
Through the deep field, and up the hill,
And down, against the sea,
As, burning red around her head,
The sun drooped lovingly,
Making a halo of her hair,
And drew her far from me.

"I breathed, and, following on her path,
I saw a western star
Trembling with light rise in the night --
And though she seems so far
Sometimes I listen and I hear,
I faintly hear her sing;
When golden rays burn into days
I peer at everything --
Sometimes, beyond a grove, I see
Her garments fluttering.

"Oh tell me, tell me, have you seen
A girl go by this way?
Her eyes are deep as if from sleep
She half-awakened lay;
Her hair floats golden in the breeze
Around her radiant face,
As if the sun, his journey run,
Had lingered for a space
To fondly kiss a last good-night
And rest him from his race."





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