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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WANDERING & WANDERERS Matches Found: 239 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, why don't I work like other men do?" Last Line: And the sawbones will say 'old one-finger's dead' Subject(s): Railroads;wandering & Wanderers;; Railways;trains A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis 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 HOBO VOLUNTARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the hobo's life is a roving life Last Line: For the life of a hobo, never to return. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Railways; Trains A LIFE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard my ancient sea-blood say Last Line: The dim marge of god's outer sea. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean 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 ROAMER REVERTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same thatch and food Last Line: With what's at home to eat. Subject(s): Hearts; Memory; Soul; Wandering & Wanderers 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 SADDENED TRAMP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now unto yonder wood-pile go Last Line: "he stowed away the victuals cold, / he - saw the wood, and left" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; A SONG, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No riches from his scanty store Last Line: The storm is in my soul. Subject(s): Love; Poverty; Wandering & Wanderers; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes 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 SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad Last Line: O I will walk with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A STAVE OF ROVING TIM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is east, the wind is west Last Line: Is in and out of haven. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wind A TALK ON WATERLOO BRIDGE; THE LAST NIGHT OF GEORGE BORROW, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We talked of 'children of the open air' Last Line: Leave never a meadow outside paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Borrow, George (1803-1881); London; Wandering & Wanderers 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 Analysis 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, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet vagabond, I hardly know Last Line: Shall be my only proof thereof. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers A VAGABOND SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis 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 A WANDERER, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a bird that beats upon the air Last Line: That beat upon the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers AFOOT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long is the road 'twixt town and town that runs Last Line: And kindly fires, and humble homes of men. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers AMORIS EXSUL: 14. THE WANDERERS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering, ever wandering Last Line: But god has given you freedom, wanderers! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How tired I am! I sink down all alone Last Line: Say simply: she was tired. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue AUVERGNAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 BALTA; GYPSY-SONG FO TRANSLYVANIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave balta clasped me to his breast Last Line: And lo! 'twas balta brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Gypsies; Love; Marriage; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away! Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips 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 Analysis 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 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 CONNOISSEUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: We watched him wander Last Line: Till one came who knew! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers DISCOVERY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 ECLOGUE: 1, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While you, o tityrus, beneath the shade Last Line: And from the hills the lengthening shadows spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Freedom; Hope; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Optimism ENVOY, TO 'MORE SONGS FROM VAGABONDIA', by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 EPIGRAM: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wandering gadling in the summer tide Last Line: To sting that heart that would have my place. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 46 Subject(s): Summer; Wandering & Wanderers EPITAPH: 17, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered over seas. From one green glade Last Line: We might have never met.—yet here we meet. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Wandering & Wanderers EXILES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles are we from our very birth Last Line: Where the lost gods of our people are! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The FAIRIES' SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North and south and east and west Last Line: Seeking still some work to do. Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Elves FLAME, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: It was april. In the orchard Last Line: "go to search the city." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers FROM US SHE WANDERED NOW A YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We took the mystery Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Absence 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 GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft do I muse in castle-building hours Last Line: And vision should be strained to meet thy case? Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, if it were, how soon jerusalem Last Line: Of evening winds, and shadows from the west. Subject(s): Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers GREAT LOCALITIES. AN ASPIRATION (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor - could I bring within my visual scope Last Line: Of god and man conspiring to the sound! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Wandering & Wanderers; Iliad; Odyssey; Fancy 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 HAVE YOU (ON THE ROAD TO KINLOCHEVEN), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you tramped about in winter, when your / boots were minus soles? Last Line: You do not know the happiness that fills a navvy's life. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips HER CALLED HER IN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He called her in from me and shut Last Line: "god called her in from him and shut the door!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Love; Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation 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 HAVE SOUGHT...., by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sought thirty years, my sisters Last Line: Seek as I have done. . . . Subject(s): Hearts; Sisters; Wandering & Wanderers I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is a curious place Last Line: Of golden dreams! Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips IN DER FREMDE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 EXILE, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, with the wand'rer's staff in hand Last Line: Lo, there will cease the tyrant's rod. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Zionism; Judaism 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 IT'S FAST THEY GO, by CORAL MORGAN Poem Text First Line: It's fast they go and very fast Last Line: But it's lonesome as hell they are. Subject(s): Flags; Stars; Wandering & Wanderers 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 Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laks yo' kin' of lovin' Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes LOVE'S VAGRANT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North and south and east and west Last Line: For thy voice to call me home. Subject(s): Fullness; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Satiation LOVE'S WOUNDING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the young stag, when lusty spring supreme Last Line: Planted a thousand arrows in my side. Subject(s): Love; Pride; Spring; Wandering & Wanderers; Self-esteem; Self-respect 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 MARIAN DRURY, MARIAN DRURY, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marian drury, marian drury / how are the marshes full of thre sea Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers MATINS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky: Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes MESOPOTAMIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: 'tis sweet to roam when morning's light Last Line: "to-whit, to-whit, to-whoo!" Subject(s): Nonsense;wandering & Wanderers; MISTRUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You look at me with wan, bright eyes Last Line: "let her be free, let her be free""?" Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Relationships; Trust; Wandering & Wanderers NEW YORK, by ANNEKE VAN ZINDRAN Poem Text First Line: My city, maligned and found wanting Last Line: We shall go wandering. Subject(s): Cities; Wandering & Wanderers; Urban Life NIGHT WANDERERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Full Text Poet Analysis 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 ODE TO A STRAW, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence comest thou o wandering elf Last Line: There's but a name. Subject(s): Names; Storms; Straw; Wandering & Wanderers OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stranger in my gates - lo! That am I Last Line: On ways that end in evening and the waste. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers ON MISS HELEN FAUCIT'S JULIET, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes POSSESSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth sat down on a wayside Last Line: The world and its giving belonged to him. Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Journeys; Trips QUERY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What holds the swift enquiring mind Last Line: Murmured a spell to guard the soul. Subject(s): Insanity; Reason; Shadows; Wandering & Wanderers; Madness; Mental Illness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals REVERIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around me, everywhere Last Line: "let thy soul be lost in prayer." Subject(s): Dreams; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares ROAD-HYMN FOR THE START, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the early bells at chime Last Line: But upon our lifted foreheads pours the boon of endless quest. Subject(s): Religion; Wandering & Wanderers; Theology ROAMING, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I steady my staff at the crossroads, it falls with Last Line: For the road runs the wide world over, and the life of the road is the best. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips 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 RONDEL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Scarlet and gold the leaves are turning Last Line: And gray are the days, for the year is old. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wandering & Wanderers 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 Poem Explanation 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 SAND, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kazar, the nomad Last Line: In a whirlwind riding. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Wandering & Wanderers SAVAGES (TO KHAMA, SEBELE AND BATHOEN), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As stags that o'er some moonlit pasture range Last Line: Mortality shall die? Subject(s): Native Americans; Trade; Wandering & Wanderers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 A PILGRIM-SOUL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay! Last Line: The creeds are milestones on the road to truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 SONG OF THE WANDERING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ornaments are sword and spear Last Line: May bid these knightly lips kiss thee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Journeys;trips SONG TO THE WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I cannot stay, I cannot stay" Subject(s): Mythology;mythology - Native American;native Americans;wandering & Wanderers;; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONGS OF TRAVEL: 1. THE VAGABOND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 TEWKESBURY ROAD, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where Last Line: At the noise of the lambs at play and the dear wild cry of the birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Animals; Wandering & Wanderers THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE HOPELESS MAN, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks for entrance at this hour?' Last Line: "for—so—one friend shall mourn my fate!" Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BILLOWS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of tribes that in the desert fell Last Line: Upon the sterile sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers 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 BREEZE'S INVITATION, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come let's roam the breezy pastures Last Line: Such sweet music as he'll hear. Subject(s): Time; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind 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 CURSE OF THE WANDERING FOOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hope of rest withdrawn me! Last Line: The curse of the wandering foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Curses; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips 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 DEATH OF THE OLD MENDICANT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a rich old gentleman Last Line: And never turned any one away from his door. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The THE DESPAIRING WANDERER, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! 'tis an hour to misery dear! Last Line: And midst the war of nature ... Laugh! Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Despair; Wandering & Wanderers THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST Poem Text First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route. Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F. Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States 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 GREAT SEDUCER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who looks too long from his window Last Line: To disillusionment! Subject(s): Marriage; Sailing & Sailors; Wandering & Wanderers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GYPSY CALL, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: You wonder why I chose this gown Last Line: Will roam the fields in gypsy gown. Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies 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 HEAVENS AT NIGHT, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: I love to lie at eventime Last Line: Of god's celestial truth. Subject(s): Admiration; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Bedtime 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 HOUSE AND THE ROAD, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little road says, go Last Line: When a little road says, go. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers THE JOLLY TRAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 JOYOUS WANDERER, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go by road, I go by street Last Line: (sing, sad nightingale!) is my maid. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers 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 FAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered where the cuckoo fills Last Line: In the ancient stillness brooding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Merlin; Rain; Rest; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue 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 LITTLE COAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's his ragged 'round-a-bout' Last Line: Beckon us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood THE LURE OF ROADS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to my heart, the roads of men! Last Line: Follow, I follow wherever they go! Subject(s): Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on cushioned otter skin Last Line: Old. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Courts & Couriers; Music & Musicians THE MARAUDERS, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Now the sun is low, and the winds are dead Last Line: Flapping their vans to the westward. Subject(s): Courtship; Hearts; Love; Relationships; Wandering & Wanderers THE OCEAN WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bright breaks the warrior o'er the ocean wave Subject(s): Nonsense;sea;wandering & Wanderers;; Ocean 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 ONWARD TRAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old, - with fearless foot Last Line: Merge and be ever one again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Paths; Trails 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 PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails 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 Poet Analysis 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 RETURN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy came home from a foreign land Last Line: "my son, my son, my wandering boy." Subject(s): Home; Old Age; Sons; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE RIDER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rode out over the moorland Last Line: And his ears were stopped with clay. Subject(s): Travel; Wales; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RUNAWAY BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst I sassed my pa, an' he Last Line: I won't run away no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Punishment; Wandering & Wanderers; Relatives 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 SONG OF THE TRAMPS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eager hands will never take us back Last Line: Sure the world is ours to revel in and roam. Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies 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 Analysis 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday I saw a ragged wight Last Line: "beautiful! Terrible!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE VAGABOND, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: I heard beauty in the woods Last Line: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well—perhaps! Subject(s): Gypsies; Wandering & Wanderers; Gipsies 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 Poem Explanation 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 VAGRANT, by PAULINE SLENDER Poem Text First Line: I will leave the dust of the city street and the noise of the busy town Last Line: And a dream that the fairies spin from stars on the other side of the moon. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE VISION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sister, sister, from the case- / ment leaning Last Line: "I saw,"" she said, ""I saw""—and spake no more." Subject(s): Vision; Wandering & Wanderers THE VISION OF RABBI BEN ISAAC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three score years my wandering Last Line: A snow-white feather fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Clergy; God; Roads; Vision; Wandering & Wanderers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paths; Trails THE WALKERS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking, walking, oh, the joy of walking! Last Line: God in heaven help me as I walk, walk, walk! Subject(s): Paris, France; Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDER-LOVERS, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reared my growing soul on dainty food Last Line: Living and dying, thine. Subject(s): Doubt; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Wandering & Wanderers; Skepticism THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No face I look upon doth greet me Last Line: Again I'll seek my native land! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Homecoming; Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There goes a wanderer through the night Last Line: The piteous, piteous wanderer! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun! Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean THE WANDERER, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You pour for me the bright red wine Last Line: Farewell—I follow after it. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER, by GEORGE H. SOULE JR. Poem Text First Line: Oh tell me, tell me, have you seen Last Line: "and rest him from his race." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Yale University THE WANDERER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering minstrel at my gate Last Line: Give your smile to slaves like me! Subject(s): Life; Minstrels; Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For one astray, behold Last Line: The discord moves in harmony divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER, by V. O. WALLINGFORD Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood THE WANDERER AND THE NIGHT-FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in the time when still I Last Line: And of the new wandering. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ABROAD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never, even in a dream Last Line: Invisible. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ADVENT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in the time when as yet Last Line: Followed after. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: BROADWAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was then she struck -- from behind Last Line: And led me away. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: CLARITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come!' cried my mind and by her might Last Line: "I will take my peace in her henceforth!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: SOOTHSAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight days went by, eight days Last Line: "and this shall be as it is spoken." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: ST. JAMES' GROVE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so it came to that last day Last Line: "and of the new wandering!" Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERER; A ROCOCO STUDY: THE STRIKE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the first peep of dawn she roused me Last Line: "I am at peace again, old queen, I listen clearer now." Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WANDERING JEW, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 WANDERLUST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas Last Line: On its wan-der-lust. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers THE WHITE ROAD UP ATHIRT THE HILL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries. Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny 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 THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SHEKINAH FROM HER HOME IN THE TEMPLE, by YEHUDA BEN IDI Poem Text First Line: From the ark cover she moved onto the cherub Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism – Judaism; Shekinah; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism THE WRAGGLE TAGGLE GIPSIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There were three gipsies a-come to my door Last Line: "along with the wraggle taggle gipsies, o!" Subject(s): Gypsies;love - Marital;marriage;wandering & Wanderers;; Gipsies;wedded Love;marriage - Love;weddings;husbands;wives 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 A TRAVELLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: After many a dusty mile Last Line: It is pan that counsels you Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile; Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips TO A WANDERER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Light was the lilt of your frolicsome feet Last Line: Ah for the charm and the cheat of the world! Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers 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 MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 1. THE WANDERER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I am a wanderer. Lo, the son of man Last Line: Redeem each soul with purity again. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers 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 ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): New Enigmas Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers 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 Full Text Poet Analysis 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 Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 VOYAGERS SONG, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle river, gentle river Last Line: Gaily live we while we may. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis 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 OF CONNAUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Norah, when wandering afar from the shade Last Line: With my sires who have gone to the mansions of peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Connaught, Ireland; Wandering & Wanderers 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 WANDERER'S SONG, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had enough of women, and enough of love Last Line: Well, it's sound sleep and long sleep, and sleep too deep to wake. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue 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 WANDERLUST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The highways and the byways, the Last Line: Never a look or a turning back till the dust shall claim the dust! Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers WAYFARERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O comrade sun, that day by day Last Line: Of life, one hovering shade the less? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Memory; Wandering & Wanderers WHAT THE TRAMP SAID, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we live when living is a pain Last Line: Ten million miles away from this damned world! Subject(s): Grief; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WHERE SHALL WE LAND?, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All listlessly we float Last Line: "where shall we land?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips 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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