Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WANDERING THOUGHTS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP 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 | ||||||||
CLIMBING o'er the mountain, Wand'ring down the valley; Playing by the fountain Where the birdlings rally: Lingers in the mellow twilight All the hoping heart's delight, If only faithful lovers know The spirit's happy afterglow. Sailing o'er the ocean And the bounding billow; Saddened by the motion Of the weeping willow: Burning in the wilding heart The passion of a lover's art, To gather in its folded wings The bliss that only poet sings. Gazing on a star, With its gleaming light Coming from afar Through the fairy night: Only he can walk the lover's lane That worships at a starry fane, By mountain gulfs divinely awed, And spends his hours there with God. Silver winged clouds Floating ever by; Nature's mystic shrouds Over land and sky: Spirits of the air on downy throne, That move in passion all alone The longing soul and whisper there The peaceful dream of love so fair. Wading laughing waters, Mooning in the forest; Praying for the father's Burdens that are sorest. Loving all the throbbing human kind, In one that gently turns the mind To mould the heart for noble deeds, And wins his peace in joyous meads. Dreaming in the gloaming, Waiting for the morning; Staying all my roaming With the spirit's warning: Waiting for the love that ever weds In life the gold and silver threads Of joy and pain, and marks the rest Of those who are forever blest. Feel the winds ablowing, See the skies aglowing, Watch the clouds aflying; Summer days are dying: The sadder autumn moments still The sunbeams' ardent cheering thrill; But loving hearts throb on to yield Ecstatic bliss in one Elysian field. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN |
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