Zoe Akins. The Wanderer. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Wanderer

By Zoë Akins


THE SHIPS are lying in the bay,
The gulls are swinging round their spars;
My soul as eagerly as they
Desires the margin of the stars.

So much do I love wandering,	5
So much I love the sea and sky,
That it will be a piteous thing
In one small grave to lie.