It's little I care what path I take, And where it leads it's little! care, But out of this house, lest my heart break, I must go, and off somewhere! It's little! know what's in my heart, What's in my mind it's little! know, But there's that in me must up and start, And it's little I care where my feet go! I wish I could walk for a day and a night And find me at dawn in a desolate place, With never the rut of a road in sight, Or the roof of a house, or the eyes of a face. I wish I could walk till my blood should spout, And drop me, never to stir again, On a shore that is wide, for the tide is out, And the weedy rocks are bare to the rain. But dump or dock, where the path I take Brings up, it's little enough I care, And it's little I'd mind the fuss they'll make, Huddled dead in a ditch somewhere. "Is something the matter, dear," she said, "That you sit at your work so silently?" "No, mother, no --'twas a knot in my thread. There goes the kettle -- I'll make the tea." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DARKNESS IS THINNING by GREGORY I SANTA FILOMENA by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE MINSTREL BOY by THOMAS MOORE HAREBELLS by ANNE MILLAY BREMER THE 'SQUIRE AT VAUXHALL by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON UPON THE THREE SONNES OF THE LORD SHEFFIELD, DROWNED IN HUMBER by MICHAEL DRAYTON VISION OR DREAM by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS POSSIBILITIES (MICHAEL ANGELO'S DAVID) by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER |