TO SEEM THE STRANGER LIES MY LOT, MY LIFE - Thomas Hood Poems

 
 

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TO SEEM THE STRANGER LIES MY LOT, MY LIFE

To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
Among strangers.  Father and mother dear,
Brothers and sisters are in Christ not near
And he my peace / my parting, sword and strife.

England, whose honour O all my heart woos, wife
To my creating thought, would neither hear
Me, were I pleading, plead nor do I: I wear-
Y of idle a being but by where wars are rife.

I am in Ireland now; now I am at a third
Remove.  Not but in all removes I can
Kind love both give and get.  Only what word

Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven's baffling ban
Bars or hell's spell thwarts.  This to hoard unheard,
Heard unheeded, leaves me a lonely began.