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| Searching... Subject: HOBOES Matches Found: 120 A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a bed of gravel moving Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A NON-WANDER SONG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do' wanna wander, I do' wanna go Last Line: I do' wanna wander, I do' wanna go. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A ROVER'S SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowdrift of the mountains Last Line: Joscelyn for me! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A SONG OF ISRAEL, by JAMES HAZARD CUTHBERT Poem Text First Line: O israel! Wanderer through the weary years Last Line: Their warfare done. Alternate Author Name(s): Cuthbert, J. H. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A TRAMP'S CONFESSION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We huddled in the mission Last Line: Fergive the lie I lied! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From wynyard's gap the livelong day Last Line: Haunting the western moor. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood Last Line: She calls and calls each vagabond by name. Variant Title(s): An Autumn Song Subject(s): Autumn; October; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Fall; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A VAGABOND SONG, by JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD Poem Text First Line: It's ho! For a song as wild and free Last Line: And the love that lies in her eyes of blue! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A VAGABOUND, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vagabond is a newcomer Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A WAIF, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know what it is to be a vagrant born? Last Line: With its warm and lingering good-bye. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have a little house! Last Line: Out of the wind's and the rain's way. Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes AUVERGNAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man was half a clown Last Line: Hilaire belloc. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer. Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BALLADE OF DREAMS TRANSPOSED, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some may like to be shut in a cage Last Line: Then I'll marry and settle down. Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BOES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I waited today for a freight train to pass Last Line: He had left over when he got drunk. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BUMS, ON WAKING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: More like living cover than it is Subject(s): Hoboes CASHING IN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a glimpse of his frightened face Last Line: I know that the one who pardoned the thief will be merciful to him! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes DISCOVERY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bugler morn shall wind his horn Last Line: New, new till the dawn is old! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ENVOY, TO 'MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA', by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose furthest footstep never strayed Last Line: The only purpose of the earth. Variant Title(s): The Wanderer Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GOLDEN LAND, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from home alone I wander Last Line: Dwells my heart in that golden land. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GORGIO LAD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Gorgio lad, my tribe are waiting Last Line: Gorgio lad, good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GYPSY-HEART, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: My grandsire was a vagabond Last Line: A wanderer to the last. Subject(s): Freedom; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HOBOES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know where we're going but we're on our way Last Line: With some half a million others like ourselves! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME Poem Text First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street. Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go wandering. Who shall declare Last Line: Wandering. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Mountain Climbing; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes IN DER FREMDE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wild-hearted wand'rer Last Line: Thou nevermore shalt see. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes IN VAGABOND GOLDEN AND VAGABOND GRAY, by S. M. HARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: The road of the vagabond's mottled and winding Last Line: In vagabond golden and vagabond gray! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes JUNGLE, by RICHMOND GEORGE ANTHONY Poem Text First Line: Here is where drifters break their trek, come night Last Line: And bide the highball of the climate freight. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes LIFE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a thronged throughfare that wound afar Last Line: Footsore, at nightfall limping to death's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes LONG GONE, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: I laks yo' kin' of lovin' Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes LOVING VAGABONDS, by NORA BYRNES HEGI Poem Text First Line: He played wild airs on his guitar Last Line: Life holds for him no charms. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes MATINS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky: Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes NIGHT WANDERERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: They hear the bell of midnight toll Last Line: And cough like giants, deep and hoarse. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes NOVEMBER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month of the drowned dog. After long rain the land Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ON MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S JULIET, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been wandering in enchanted ground Last Line: From other lips, sweet lady, than from thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes PHANTASMATA: 1, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world was sleeping in the lap of night Last Line: To stay the rise of hyperion's orb. Subject(s): Creation; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes POETRY OF DEPARTURES, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROVER'S SONG, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide Last Line: Hurrah, boys! Hurrah, boys! The rover is free! Subject(s): Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SACRIFICE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those delicate wanderers Last Line: The silence of the height. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SEPTEMBER TRANSIENT, by R. P. HARRISS Poem Text First Line: There is a mellow pleasantness about Last Line: Where laughing autumn's feet have lightly tript. Subject(s): September; Transience; Wandering & Wanderers; Impermanence; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SESTINA OF THE TRAMP ROYAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all Last Line: "so write, before I die, ""'e liked it all!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road Last Line: Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SONGS OF TRAVEL: 1. THE VAGABOND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give to me the life I love Last Line: And the road below me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us Last Line: Cold stars and the whores. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE BOXCAR, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the boxcar rumbling and rolling afar Last Line: To dare the ups and downs of the road with me. Subject(s): Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE CALL OF THE ROAD, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet may it is come, and the trees are in bloom Last Line: Ah, wherefore so lovely, wide world of my dreams? Subject(s): Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE DEAD ROVER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so he is done with roaming Last Line: He'll wander the astral trail! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE GLEANERS, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: They come at nightfall with a furtive air Last Line: But stoop and pick, and stoop and pick again. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HAPPY WANDERER, by PERCY ADDLESHAW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the happy wanderer who goes Last Line: The sign o' the grave, a cool and quiet inn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hemingway, Percy Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HARVEST FLY'S COMPLAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sun stares hot, unsparing like / a lidless golden eye Last Line: Though I know that I am in for being done as heretofore! Subject(s): Harvest; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE JOLLY TRAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I am a jolly tramp: I whine to you Last Line: Was I, but whined in truth most pitiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE JOYS OF THE ROAD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these Last Line: For him who travels without a load. Subject(s): Autumn; Roads; Seasons; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Fall; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE LAST VAGABOND, by J. N. GREELY Poem Text First Line: Oh, we swung out of the courtyard gate Last Line: "but I -- the road's my bride." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE OLD TRAMP, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: In this dark ditch my life shall pass away Last Line: The poor old tramp now dies your bitter foe. Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE OLD VAGABOND, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Here in the ditch my bones I'll lay Last Line: The aged beggar dies your bitter foe! Subject(s): Adversity; Begging & Beggars; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE PASSER-BY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fragrant, moonlit night Last Line: All silent in the night. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE PERMANENT BRAND, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a maverick runnin' free Last Line: The first class lot from the mavericks! Subject(s): Love; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE QUEST, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've been a wanderer, you Last Line: How I look for your melodies! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE RAGGEDY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O the raggedy man! He works fer pa Last Line: Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Handy Men; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A town lies in the valley Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise. Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE TRAMP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from where he started Last Line: "oh, I come from where I started!" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poverty; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE TRAMPS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped god's land together Last Line: The tragic road to anywhere, such dear, dim years ago. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yukon Territory; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABOND, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The wind is in the wood, / the sap hath stirred Last Line: They used to do! Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABOND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Tormented day and night by fleas Last Line: And eat up all the bloody food!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABOND, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the pools where the grayling rise Last Line: I'm lord of a dozen counties. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABOND, by ANNA GERNANDT FURNESS Poem Text First Line: He's only a vagabond, and from place to place does roam Last Line: He has no worries, and he is free. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABOND GROWN OLD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: So warm the lighted windows glow Last Line: And I have known the road in spring. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABONDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What saw you in your flight to-day Last Line: Ere you enter your slumber-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Wandering & Wanderers; Flying; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VAGABONDS, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are two travellers, roger and I Last Line: The sooner the better for roger and me! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDER-LOVERS, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the world with marna! Last Line: Wander-bride of mine! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: The ships are lying in the bay Last Line: In one small grave to lie. Subject(s): Graves; Wandering & Wanderers; Tombs; Tombstones; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "chorus;""doom Is Dark And Deeper Than Any Sea-dingle""; Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On unknown paths I falter forth Last Line: And all my help lies in a cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare delight of seeing Last Line: And where its voices call, thither my steps must be! Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a waif I' the hills at close of day Last Line: And all the dust that has been and shall be. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: My heart is homeless as the wind Last Line: Hope's golden chariot wheels. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a mountain height, far from the sea Last Line: Sing, o my home! Sing, o my home, of thee! Subject(s): Nature; Patriotism; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER, by SCHMIDT VON LUBECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come down from the hills alone Last Line: "there, where thou art not, there is bliss!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER AND THE NIGHT-FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call back your odours, lovely flowers! Last Line: "looking alone to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who comest from on high Last Line: To my bosom come again! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush'd on the hill Last Line: Soon wilt find rest. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER'S RETURN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing Last Line: "and mine is weary at the break of day." Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Male-female Relations; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER'S SONG, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My garden is the road-side free Last Line: A wealth I cannot squander. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wizard sat within his hall Last Line: It was the wandering jew. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Memory; Wandering & Wanderers; Wandering Jew; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WHITE ROAD UP ATHIRT THE HILL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When high hot zuns da strik right down Last Line: The white roads up athirt the hills. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WINDING ROAD, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: The beckoning road winds round the hill Last Line: My blithely winding road. Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THROUGH THE WATERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the forest, through the forest, oh! Who would not like to roam Last Line: Like racing with the gull upon a broad and dashing sea! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TIMBERLINE, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: When twilight falls on timberline Last Line: As sweetly as a vesper hymn. Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO HIS FRIEND IN ELYSIUM, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long you wandered on the dusky plain Last Line: About the gate, or labor at the oar. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO ONE WHO WALKS THE HIGHROAD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think no thought of her Last Line: What is any woman's whim? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TOM TWIST, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tom twist was a wonderful fellow Last Line: Where it still continues to spin. Subject(s): Activity; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Exercise; Seamen; Sails; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TWO STREETS, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Today, while walking through a hardened street Last Line: Today I walked upon a velvet street. Subject(s): Asphalt; Streets; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Concrete; Pavements; Avenues; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the mud two strangers came Last Line: For heaven and the future´s sakes Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VAGABOND'S VERSE, by GRAYCE COLE CLYMER Poem Text First Line: Not for me the bright, clean hearth nor a woman's clinging Last Line: For I'm a vagabond -- set apart -- and my home's where I hang my hat! Subject(s): Guilt; Homesickness; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VAGABONDIA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off with the fetters Last Line: Free! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VAGRANTS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long time ago, we two set out Last Line: But no. We wander, aimless, vagrant! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VERLAINE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avid of life and love, insatiate vagabond Last Line: In some fair heaven the christ has set apart for fauns. Subject(s): Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERER'S NIGHT SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, on the hills forsaken Last Line: You, too, shall rest. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERERS, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As o'er the hill we roam'd at will Last Line: That chickens had been miss'd at syllabub farm. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE Poem Text First Line: As I rose in the early dawn Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go! Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERERS' HYMN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, from thee we would not stray Last Line: In thy great heights and depths of love! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERING THOUGHTS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing o'er the mountain Last Line: Ecstatic bliss in one elysian field. Subject(s): Love; Thought; Wandering & Wanderers; Thinking; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERLUST, by ELINOR G. CHAPLER Poem Text First Line: I hear the cars that hum along at night Last Line: But travel never equals coming home. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERLUST, by GERALD LOUIS GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the east the sunrise, beyond the west the sea Last Line: You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the sky. Variant Title(s): Wander-thirst Subject(s): Faith; Wandering & Wanderers; Belief; Creed; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh. Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WHEN ZEPHRYS BLOW, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER Poem Text First Line: When zephyrs blow and softly bring Last Line: When zephyrs blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T. Subject(s): Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WITH THE MAJESTY OF MOUNTAINS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Winds cry to the peaks; trees hush, elate Last Line: My stript soul is lifted ... A new tongue I speak. Subject(s): Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes YOUR MIRROR FRAME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see your mirror frame Last Line: To-night with all the rest of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes YOUR TREASURE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years - you say - you had a quest Last Line: Your holy, high love victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Grief; Victory; Gime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Sorrow; Sadness |
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