The Wanderer by Zoe Akins. Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. 1922. The Second Book of Modern Verse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922.

The Wanderer

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.