Tuesday, December 31, 2002

A Wanderer's Song Comments

Rating: 2.9

A WIND'S in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,
I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;
I hunger for the sea's edge, the limit of the land,
Where the wild old Atlantic is shouting on the sand.
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John Masefield
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Carol Mays 27 February 2019

Other websites say this poem is now in the public domain, being published before 1/1/1924.

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Frances Mulley. 09 February 2018

I have just read aloud, for I am a public reader of poetry, this profound and lovely poem Growing

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Anil Kumar Panda 16 August 2011

a sure fav of mine.loved it.

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Ramesh T A 16 August 2011

I too feel so now as John Masefield feels as expressed in this poem! Technological utopia is killing human habitation here now! Timely poem to read!

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