Around the good world's wide expanse Are places great and small, Whose names fair tingle with romance— And I would see them all: There's Cairo, Fez and Ispahan, Bangkok and Singapore, And Trebizonde and Cagayan And Rio and Lahore. There's Sarawak and Callao, Algiers and Kandahar, Khartoum, Rangoon and Tokio, Bombay and Zanzibar; About the name of each there clings Enchantment's golden veil, The wonder of strange folk and things, The glamour of the trail! For some are north and some are south And some are east and west, And some are cursed with heat and drouth And some with balm are blessed; But Capetown, Rhodes or Disco Bay, Shanghai, Seville or Rome, Their names come singing down the way To tempt me forth from home; Their magic's ringing down the way, To lure me forth from home! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CLOISTER by ISAAC ROSENBERG THE SONNET by RICHARD WATSON GILDER A WINTER TWILIGHT by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE TO GOD AND IRELAND TRUE by ELLEN O'LEARY A TERRE (BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF MANY SOLDIERS) by WILFRED OWEN HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS (2) by ANYTE |