Some day, when the stern seeker in my brain Has ceased to drive me stumbling through the dark, Dropping dead cinders for each faint new spark, Only to see the new one wax and wane; When all my dreams are numbered with the slain; And wisdom, that egregious patriarch Has told his last half truth, and left me stark; I shall go home, I shall go home again. Laughter will greet me, waiting in the hall; And friendships will come trooping down the stairs, Sweet as old rose leaves wrinkled in a jar. Battles and loves will move me not at all. There will be juleps, billiards, family prayers, And a clean passport for another star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE by WILLIAM BARNES SONNET: TO HIS LUTE by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651 by KATHERINE PHILIPS ON RECEIVING [THE FIRST] NEWS OF THE WAR by ISAAC ROSENBERG |