I KNOW a land, I, too, Where warm keen incense on the sea-wind blows, And all the winter long the skies are blue, And the brown deserts blossom with the rose. Deserts of all delight, Cactus and palm and earth of thirsty gold, Dark purple blooms round eaves of sun-washed white, And that Hesperian fruit men sought of old. O, to be wandering there, Under the palm-trees, on that sunset shore, Where the waves break in song, and the bright air Is crystal clean; and peace is ours, once more. There Beauty dwells, Beauty, re-born in whiteness from the foam; And Youth returns with all its magic spells, And the heart finds its long-forgotten home, -- Home -- home! Where is that land? For, when I dream it found, the old hungering cry Aches in the soul, drives me from all I planned, And sets my sail to seek another sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH by ALFRED TENNYSON ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 6. TO WILLIAM HALL, ESQ., WITH THE WORKS OF CHAULIEU by MARK AKENSIDE CRADLE SONG by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE MAIDS OF ELFIN-MERE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE INVITATION by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD WILD ROSES by RHODA S. BARCLAY TWELVE SONNETS: 7. PERFECT UNION by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |