Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONGS OF TRAVEL: 17. TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Last Line: But I go for ever and come again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Wandering Willie Subject(s): Home; Nostalgia | ||||||||
Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Hunger my driver, I go where I must. Cold blows the winter wind over hill and heather; Thick drives the rain, and my roof is in the dust. Loved of wise men was the shade of my roof-tree. The true word of welcome was spoken in the door -- Dear days of old, with the faces in the firelight, Kind folks of old, you come again no more. Home was home then, my dear, full of kindly faces, Home was home then, my dear, happy for the child. Fire and the windows bright glittered on the moorland; Song, tuneful song, built a palace in the wild. Now, when day dawns on the brow of the moorland, Lone stands the house, and the chimney-stone is cold. Lone let it stand, now the friends are all departed, The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of old. Spring shall come, come again, calling up the moorfowl, Spring shall bring the sun and rain, bring the bees and flowers; Red shall the heather bloom over hill and valley, Soft flow the stream through the even-flowing hours; Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood -- Fair shine the day on the house with open door; Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney -- But I go for ever and come again no more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BELL FROM EUROPE by WELDON KEES THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH HANGING THE BLUE NUNS; FOR WARREN CARRIER by MADELINE DEFREES OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE MY SISTER LIKED THE POSTCARD OF SNOW by ANSELM HOLLO THE PLAYER PIANO by RANDALL JARRELL A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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