Here is what I do:
As a Classic Poetry Aide, I offer assistance in the following areas:(1) poetry from ancient to contemporary poetry, (2) scholarly and critical works about the poetry, (3) guidance in writing essays about poetry.
I answer questions about the poets and poetry most widely studied in high school and college English classes. I help with interpretations and direct you to online poetry analyses. I find web sources that offer information for students writing essays about poems.
Here is what I do not do:
I do not help with creative writing issues, such as critiquing poems or offering ideas for poems. I do not offer my personal opinion about poets and poems.
Question Recently, my wife passed away. She had placed the words, "safely home," on her father's monument. She once told me that it was from a line in a poem. I have been unable to locate the poem. I believe it was by a well known author, but the only reference I have been able to find is in a poem entitled, "Safely Home." This particular line does not appear in that poem.
I am going to place the same, "Safely Home," on our monument, but I would really appreciate it if you might tell me what poem it is from.
Thank you for any enlightenment you may provide in this quest.
Best Regards,
Chris
Answer Dear Chris,
My condolences on your wife's passing.
The poem, "Beannacht" by Irish poet John O'Donohue (1956-2008), has the line, "a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home": http://www.witnesstree.net/home/home.html
I'm not sure if this is the one you are looking for.
