7. The Wanderer by Zoe Akins. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

7. 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.