OH, that bend of the road, how it baffles, yet beckons! What lies there beyond—less or more than heart reckons? What ends, what begins, there where sight fails to follow? Does the road climb to heaven, or dip to the hollow? What glory of greenness, what lights interlacing, What softness of shadow, what bounty of spacing, What refreshment of change—aye, what beauty Elysian The sweep of that curve may deny to the vision! Oh, my soul yearns for sight! Oh, my feet long to follow, Swift-winged with sweet hope as with wings of a swallow! Though lonely the way, void of song, void of laughter, I must go to the end—I must know what comes after. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RETURN (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |