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Exile
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| Exile written by Walter de la Mare |
| The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) | Link to further information |
Had the gods loved me, I had lain
Where darnel is, and thorn,
And the wild night-bird's nightlong strain
Trembles in boughs forlorn.
Nay, but they loved me not; and I
Must needs a stranger be,
Whose every exiled day gone by
Aches with their memory.
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