Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ADVENTURER, by HAROLD VINAL Poet's Biography First Line: He hopes for greater circumstance; he dreams Last Line: The mortar crumbles and the glory falls. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers | ||||||||
He hopes for greater circumstance; he dreams Of Eldorado or a bright Yukon Where gold is washed in ever-flowing streams. A road where other vagabonds have gone Leads him beyond the pillared hills of home, A yard, a garden and a little house; A finger points to Xanadu or Nome, Far from the thraldom of a nagging spouse. He dreams and dreams . . . Headlong the seasons roll: Summer and Winter, Autumn and the Spring, And yet he is no nearer to his goal Than when he first began his wandering. And yet, no matter how he builds his walls, The mortar crumbles and the glory falls. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ADVENTURERS by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY MARGUERITE DE ROBERVAL by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY THE PASSING OF CADIEUX by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY WHEN AS A LAD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY WHITE NIGHT by BYRDIE L. MARTIN AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE by MARY FRANCES MARTIN ADVENTURES OF KING ROBERT THE BRUCE by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL AN ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF KING JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL |
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