Sibylline Leaves (Coleridge)/Home-sick

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

HOME-SICK.

 

Written in Germany.

 

'Tis sweet to him, who all the week
Through city-crowds must push his way,
To stroll alone through fields and woods,
And hallow thus the Sabbath-Day.

And sweet it is, in summer bower,
Sincere, affectionate and gay,
One's own dear children feasting round,
To celebrate one's marriage-day.

But what is all, to his delight,
Who having long been doom'd to roam,
Throws off the bundle from his back,
Before the door of his own home?

Home-sickness is a wasting pang;
This feel I hourly more and more:
There's Healing only in thy wings,
Thou Breeze that play'st on Albion's shore!