So, we'll go no more a roving the track, "The Wedding Night". The poem is also featured in John Wyndham's post-holocaust book, "The Day of the Triffids", where it occurs when a blinded pianist commits suicide. So, we'll go no more a roving "So, we'll go no more a roving" is a poem, written by (George Gordon) Lord Byron (1788–1824), and included in a letter to Thomas Moore on 28 February 1817. Moore published the poem in 1830 as part of "Letters and Journals of Lord Byron". It evocatively describes the fatigue of age conquering the restlessness of youth. Byron wrote the poem at the age of
Jolly Roving Tar as the sailors rowed away, she wav'd her lily hand,<br> "Farewell, ye girls of Liverpool, I fear no wound nor scar."<br> And away went pretty Susan to her jolly, roving Tar. Jolly Roving Tar Jolly Roving Tar is a traditional Newfoundland folk song. In its 19th-century version, the song relates the story of Susan, lamenting the wanderings of her beloved "tar", or sailor, William, who is at sea, and deciding to follow him in her father's boat. The title is also applied to the folk song* "Get up, Jack! John, sit down!", a reel of unknown provenance in which some,