Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TRAVELER, by ANNE MCCLURE


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THE TRAVELER, by                    
First Line: A loosened leaf blown by the casual wind
Last Line: Took up the savage journey home again.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A loosened leaf blown by the casual wind
He drifted over perilous seas, and chill
Unfriendly Northern steppes; undaunted still,
Through lands of barbarous speech, at length to find
A little kingdom and its strangely kind
Obsequious yellow people, quick to fill
His slightest order: doing his utmost will ...
Leisure and sweet Ming Lo...hardship left far behind.

But pleasure palled. His roving spirit fell
A-brooding on a City in the sea,
Shining and beautiful, and he was fain
To see the Lido! ...The exotic spell
Faded: stuffing his pockets full of emeralds, he
Took up the savage journey home again.





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