I am looking for a poem I read years ago about a man going to his father's funeral.?

Question

There is a line that goes something like "the heaviest weight I ever carried was the weight of my father as I carried his coffin." It also mention a path he knew as a child that seemed at the time to be a long road, but as an adult he realizes it was small. I think it was call a "The Homecoming" or something. It was in a grade school reader I had that was part of a series that included the book "A lizzard to Start with."

Answer 1

If it helps any, I believe the school reader series may be the Ginn "Reading 720" books. These are the titles and levels: [v. 1.] Hello, morning! -- [v. 2.] A pocket full of sunshine --[v. 3.] A duck is a duck -- [v. 4.] Helicopters and gingerbread -- [v. 5.] May I come in? -- [v. 6.] One to grow on -- [v. 7.] The dog next door and other stories -- [v. 8.] How it is nowadays -- [v. 9.] Inside out -- [v. 10.] A lizard to start with --[v. 11.] Tell me how the sun rose -- [v. 12.] Measure me, sky --[v. 13.] Mountains are for climbing.

I would expect that a poem with that subject matter would be in one of the later volumes. I tried to find tables of contents for some of the later books but was unsuccessful.

Answer 2

i'm sorry, i don't know which poem it comes from either... seems like no one else knows too... have you checked the library's collection of poems yet?