Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A WANDERER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY


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TO A WANDERER, by                    
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


Light was the lilt of your frolicsome feet,
Winsome your grace as a banner unfurled;
Home gave you happiness sweet and complete;
Why were you charmed by the siren-voiced world?

Fortune was bountiful though she was blind;
Youth was like morning with dew drops impearled;
Love was beneficent; What do you find
Now, in a portionless, pitiless world?

Envy has eyed you with lowering sneer;
Pity's proud lip in contempt has been curled;
Prudence has called you in tremulous fear—
Fear of a dissolute, desolate world.

Autumn's gray mists have come down on your track;
Summer's dead memories round it are swirled;
Who is beside you to pilot you back—
Back from the wildering waste of the world?

Oh for the lilt of the frolicsome feet!
Oh for the grace like a banner unfurled!
Oh for the happiness, sweet and complete!
Ah for the charm and the cheat of the world!





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