Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM, by GEORGE STERLING Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger in my gates - lo! That am I Last Line: On ways that end in evening and the waste. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers | ||||||||
The stranger in my gates -- lo! that am I, And what my land of birth I do not know, Nor yet the hidden land to which I go. One may be lord of many ere he die, And tell of many sorrows in one sigh, But know himself he shall not, nor his woe, Nor to what sea the tears of wisdom flow; Nor why one star is taken from the sky. An urging is upon him evermore, And though he bide, his soul is wanderer, Scanning the shadows with a sense of haste -- Where fade the tracks of all who went before: A dim and solitary traveller On ways that end in evening and the waste. | 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 THE BLACK VULTURE by GEORGE STERLING |
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