The Seeker
The Seeker - meaning Summary
Happiness Returns to Home
The poem describes a seeker who searches the world—mountains, cities, seas—for happiness and gains pleasures but not true contentment. Disappointed, the speaker returns to a childhood valley and small brown house by a rill. Familiar paths, homelight, and the scent of sweet-briar restore a sense of belonging and reveal that deep happiness lives in home, memory, and simple domestic presence rather than in distant wonders.
Read Complete AnalysesI 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!
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