Famous Homeward Bound Poems by Famous Poets

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Homeward Bound

...Home, for my heart still calls me;
Home, through the danger zone;
Home, whatever befalls me,
I will sail again to my own! 

Wolves of the sea are hiding
Closely along the way,
Under the water biding
Their moment to rend and slay. 

Black is the eagle that brands them,
Black are their hearts as the night,
Black is the hate that sends them
To murder but not ...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van


On the Road

...bags and wraps the red-caps circle round; 
From off the step the passenger lightly hops, 
And seeks his cab or tram-car homeward bound; 
The waiters pass out weary, listless, glum, 
To spend their tips on harlots, cards and rum....Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude

Poor Honest Men

...Your jar of Virginny
Will cost you a guinea,
Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten;
But light your churchwarden
And judge it according,
When I've told you the troubles of poor honest men.

From the Capes of the Delaware,
As you are well aware,
We sail which tobacco for England-but then,
Our own British cruisers,
They watch us come through, sir...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Regret

...! 
'Mid the unknown sea of life 
I no blest isle have found; 
At last, through all its wild wave's strife, 
My bark is homeward bound. 

Farewell, dark and rolling deep ! 
Farewell, foreign shore ! 
Open, in unclouded sweep, 
Thou glorious realm before ! 
Yet, though I had safely pass'd
That weary, vexed main, 
One loved voice, through surge and blast, 
Could call me back again. 

Though the soul's bright morning rose 
O'er Paradise for me, 
William ! even from Heaven's repo...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Charlotte

Sleepers The

...his way, the Hungarian his way,
 and
 the
 Pole his way,
The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. 

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The homeward bound, and the outward bound, 
The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyé, the onanist, the female that loves
 unrequited,
 the
 money-maker, 
The actor and actress, those through with their parts, and those waiting to commence, 
The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen, and the
 nominee
 that has fail’d,
The gre...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


The Alarm

...und him,
He saw, on gazing round him,
The Barrow-Beacon burning--burning low,
As if, perhaps, uplighted ever since he'd homeward bound him;
And it meant: Expect the Foe!

Leaving the byway,
And following swift the highway,
Car and chariot met he, faring fast inland;
"He's anchored, Soldier!" shouted some:
"God save thee, marching thy way,
Th'lt front him on the strand!"

He slowed; he stopped; he paltered
Awhile with self, and faltered,
"Why courting misadventure shoreward ro...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

The Building of the Ship

...om its moorings and its course. 
Therefore he spake, and thus said he: -- 
"Like unto ships far off at sea, 
Outward or homeward bound, are we. 
Before, behind, and all around, 
Floats and swings the horizon's bound, 
Seems at its distant rim to rise 
And climb the crystal wall of the skies, 
And then again to turn and sink, 
As if we could slide from its outer brink. 
Ah! it is not the sea, 
It is not the sea that sinks and shelves, 
But ourselves 
That rock and rise 
With e...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Coastwise Lights

...Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;
Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas.
From reef and rock and skerry -- over headland, ness, and voe --
The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go!

Through the endless summer evenings, on the lineless, level floors;
Through the yelling Channel temp...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Merchantmen

...King Solomon drew merchantmen,
 Because of his desire
 For peacocks, apes, and ivory,
 From Tarshish unto Tyre,
 With cedars out of Lebanon
 Which Hiram rafted down;
 But we be only sailormen
 That use in London town.

Coastwise -- cross-seas -- round the world and back again --
 Where the paw shall head us or the full Trade suits --
Plain-sail -- storm-sa...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Moon

...ilvery light,
Thou cheerest the weary traveller in the night;
For thou lightest up the wayside around
To him when he is homeward bound. 

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the lovers in the night
As they walk through the shady groves alone,
Making love to each other before they go home. 

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the poacher in the night;
For thou lettest him see to set his snares
To catch the rabbit and the hares....Read more of this...
by Davies, William Henry

The Yarn of the Loch Achray

...'n' cook the meats
As my man likes 'n' as my man eats.'
So home they goes by the windy streets,
Thinking their men are homeward bound
With anchors hungry for English ground,
And the bloody fun of it is, they're drowned!
Hear the yarn of a sailor,
An old yarn learned at sea....Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

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