English Poetry. Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Seeker. Люси Мод Монтгомери.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Люси Мод Монтгомери)

The Seeker

I sought for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west.
I sought it in beautiful cities of men,
On shores that were sunny and blue,
And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine
In palaces wondrous to view;
Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer
But never I found aught of happiness there! 

Then I took my way back to a valley of old
And a little brown house by a rill,
Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs
That guarded the crest of the hill;
I went by the path that my childhood had known
Through the bracken and up by the glen,
And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink
The scent of sweet-briar again;
The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore
And happiness waited for me at the door!

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s other poems:

1. The Truce of Night
2. When the Fishing Boats Go Out
3. On the Bay
4. The Hill Maples
5. With Tears They Buried You Today

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