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    The Wanderlust Heart
    The Wanderlust Heart
    The Wanderlust Heart
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    The Wanderlust Heart

    By David Clarke Bryan

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    The Wanderlust Heart pretty much sums up the theme of this book of my poetry. From the themes of young love in Sweet Jenny to more mature love in A Classic Love, A Famous Woman, or the Arny poems. The hope in fatherhood as played out in One Hope; the horror of war as in A Mothers Tears, An Irish Mother, or What Justice Cannot . . .; or the theme of hell in A Pale Horse, Seek Not Hell, or Our Perished Sons. The seasons are represented. There are a number of other poems that keep to the basic wanderlust theme.

    My basic philosophy: What is, is. What isnt, isnt. The rest, tis and tisnt.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 19, 2015
    ISBN9781503538740
    The Wanderlust Heart
    Author

    David Clarke Bryan

    I am classically trained but, except for my poetry, have put none of it to practical use. My heroes are AE Houseman, Lord Byron, with a passing nod to Dora Sigerson Shorter. I have wandered the length of the United States, but my longings are always in the past and to the classic forms. I love the good, strong word patterns, rhythm, and rhymes of the classic poetry since abandoned in this modern day and age. My poetry is of a world long since gone, yet the modern themes are here: love, war, wanderlust, and myth.

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      The Wanderlust Heart - David Clarke Bryan

      Copyright © 2015 by David Clarke Bryan.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2015901295

      ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5035-3872-6

                      Softcover        978-1-5035-3873-3

                      eBook             978-1-5035-3874-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Rev. date: 02/02/2015

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      CONTENTS

      A Classic Love

      A Famous Woman

      The Wounded Part

      Unending Crime

      Sweet Jenny

      Fortune’s Alms

      A Celestial Maiden’s Plight

      A Sacred Vow

      Eternal Bliss

      A Hope

      The Way of Night

      Our Perished Sons

      The Land of Nod

      Unspoken Vow

      One Hope

      To a Lost Friend

      A Bodysurfer’s Prayer: The Balboa Wedge

      The Man Not Seen

      Winter Harsh

      The Summer Rose

      The Plundered Part

      Shelley’s Requiem

      The Shores of Grace

      A Fonder Ambition

      A True Knight’s Woe

      What Justice Cannot Truth Abide

      A Pale Horse

      The Wind’s Crossways

      Her Grace

      A Seeker’s Hope

      West of Haven

      Seek Not Hell

      Another Love Song

      A Mother’s Tears

      A fire is burning …

      Love Transfixed

      Arny’s Thoughts

      Lines to Arny

      Storm Tossed

      The Hope is Spring

      The Ancient’s Wisdom

      The Gloaming

      Unforgotten

      Quatrains

      The land and sky and sea

      They sing a haunting song to me;

      There’s none that go returns

      For youth’s a flame too quickly burns.

      A Classic Love

      They loved of old the fight for honor’s right

      The rage embroiling from another’s slight

      The pure clarity of a moral rage

      The fine honed morals of another age.

      For honor would they launch a kingdom’s ships;

      For just a damsel’s wrong would regions war;

      With oaths and troths the pledge from

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