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Famous Wanderlust Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Wanderlust poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous wanderlust poems. These examples illustrate what a famous wanderlust poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The road is wide and the stars are out
and the breath of the night is sweet,
And this is the time when wanderlust should seize upon my feet.
But I'm glad to turn from the open road and the starlight on my 
face,
And to leave the splendour of out-of-doors for a human dwelling 
place.
I never have seen a vagabond who really liked to 
roam
All up and down the streets of the world and not to have a home:
The tramp who slept in your barn last night and left at bre...Read more of this...
by Kilmer, Joyce



...The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas,
Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth;
The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease,
Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
How bitterly I've cursed it, oh, the Painted Desert knows,
The wraithlike heights that hug the pallid plain,
The all-but-fluid silence, -- yet the longing grows...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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