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| Searching... Subject: JOURNEYS Matches Found: 1005 "NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! I have been north, and I have been south" Subject(s): Travel;truth; Journeys;trips 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A CAPPELLA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five days of driving with no voices Last Line: Earth to the contour of its eloquence. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips A CHILD'S HOME - LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The terse old maxim of the poet's Last Line: To roll an answering anthem through the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips A DAY'S JOURNEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After your pleasant morning travel Last Line: And noonday's silver into gold. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it? Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful silvery tay Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay. Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips A DREAM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream? We sailed, I thought we sailed Last Line: Bristled with cities, us the sea receiv'd. Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A JOURNEY TO HELL: PART 3. THE PARISH POOR-OFFICERS, by EDWARD WARD Poem Text First Line: These souls, my lord, assembled at the bar Last Line: Shameful to own and scandalous to hear. Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Soul; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A LAST GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anconcito. The fisheater. Men were standing on cork rafts Last Line: In my head say please not now, I haven't quite lived yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips A MENDOCINO MEMORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in my lonely, eager youth I rode Last Line: Bearing the pines hewn out of oregon. Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Capriciously it wound about Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses. Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A PROLOGUE TO THE HARTZ-JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All I saw and heard when travelling Last Line: Under which he fancies fighting. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A PSALM OF TRAVEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like to leave my house and home Last Line: We'll dream our little dream together. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A RAILROAD YARD AT NIGHT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Faint forms of giant buildings in the night Last Line: Gleaming of silver underneath the stars. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Traffic; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SMALL EXCURSION, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a trip with me Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away. Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came to me in the night Last Line: On her starry towers. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad Last Line: O I will walk with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A SURVEY OF THE AMPHITHEATRE, by MOSES BROWNE Poem Text First Line: On, pegasus! Why, whither turn ye? Last Line: To die—but get their living by't. Subject(s): Fights; Italian Renaissance; Sports - Arenas & Stadia; Theater & Theaters; Travel; Stage Life; Journeys; Trips A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A TRAIN WINDOW, SELS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gride and screech of snorting locomotives Last Line: Who are the lovers there? Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A TRAVELER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dusk and snow / one fared on yesterday Last Line: Into the dusk and snow Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRAVELER, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have traveled so far to remember Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way to lullaby town Last Line: Enters the gates of lullaby town. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes! Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 1. LONDON TO FOLKSTONE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A constant keeping-past of shaken trees Last Line: To where the pale sea brooded murmuring. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): A Trip To Paris And Belgium Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are upon the scheldt. We know we move Last Line: And clamor and the night. We are in ghent. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the highlands I'm off for a fortnight,' says jack Last Line: "why turn it, and then I can wear it for two." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips A UN PASSANT, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller, who at night, along the echoing street Last Line: Where leadest thou so late, thy patient weary steed? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown. Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips A WAY OF BEING, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There we go in cars, did you guess we wore sandals? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa Last Line: "I am home!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips ABROAD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From place to place thou'rt wandering still Last Line: It was a dream. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want." Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips ADDISON COUNTY, VERMONT, CLAY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north vermonter who would fain Last Line: In travelling over first-class clay. Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well may'st thou halt, and gaze with brightening eye Last Line: On which it should be touched, would melt away. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ADVENTURES OF KING ROBERT THE BRUCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King robert the bruce's deadly enemy, john of lorn Last Line: And such was the life, alas! King robert the bruce led! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips AFRICAN VIOLETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: How the wind shrieks! Last Line: Of far-off africa. Subject(s): Africa; Flowers; Jungles; Travel; Violets; Journeys; Trips AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away. Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks Last Line: Give us with the saints a place! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips ALBANY BUS STATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same fat man with the fluorescent vest Last Line: Pulls in to take me home to brandon. Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain Last Line: Earth beneath, and stars above. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips AMSTERDAM, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pointed houses lean so you would swear Last Line: Under a gable: here lived francis jammes. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Memory; Paintings & Painters; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ADDRESS TO THE NEW TAY BRIDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery tay Last Line: Near by dundee and the bonnie magdalen green. Variant Title(s): The Railway Bridge Of The Silver Tay Subject(s): Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love every stock and stone Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go there!' 'stay here!' Last Line: "to go." Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen your city Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity." Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind. Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our task is done! On gunga's breast Last Line: His peace on earth, -- his hope of heaven! Subject(s): Jungles; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go.... Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry to you papa who Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; India; Travel; Journeys; Trips ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sprang for the side-holts - my gripsack and I Last Line: Was no more than its due. 'twas the lecture they meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the stair in antwerp church Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bruges, Belgium; Eyck, Jan Van (1395-1441); Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Travel; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans; Journeys; Trips ARE YOU THE COVE?, by JOSEPH FURPHY Poem Text First Line: Are you the cove?' he spoke the words Last Line: "where I can doss tonight." Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Tom Subject(s): Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ Poem Text First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 1, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bend of the river brings into view two triumphal arches Last Line: By misty waters and rainy sands, while the yellow dusk thickens. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 2, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are almost come to hsun-yang: how my thoughts are stirred Last Line: They have taken the trouble, these civil people, to meet their new prefect! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH Poem Text First Line: Across the land their long lines pass Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT EPIDAURUS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poet's Biography First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Last Line: Farewell and adieu. Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips AT THE EMBASSY, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Well, vision from the distant west Last Line: They haven't the ambassador. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL Poem Text First Line: They drive me out of my country Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They have bridged you, o missouri Last Line: The romance of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Ferry Boats; Missouri; Travel; Journeys; Trips AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips BACK HOME, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To live is to go on a journey Last Line: To die is to come back home. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BACK TO ALBANY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A bird turned loose among the flowers Last Line: Sent back to boost for albany. Subject(s): Albany, New York; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips BALDOVAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scenery of baldovan Last Line: And quacking in their innocent play. Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Walking; Woods; Journeys; Trips BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE JOURNEY TO HEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The aesir's chorus / fast! Ride fast! Last Line: And silence held its breath for what should come. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLAD OF THE CANAL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were crowded in the cabin Last Line: When the morn looked through the smoke. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the country, from coast to coast Last Line: Mine is the trunk that goes astray. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADE OF EGREGIOUSNESS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I travelled now from coast to coast Last Line: "I never called a waiter ""george." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: HAMLET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the Last Line: "thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there." Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips BALMORAL CASTLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmoral castle Last Line: And thee dark river dee. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BEARHUG, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year. Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL BALMERINO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful balmerino on the bonnie banks of tay Last Line: They can walk along the braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee. Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away! Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen Last Line: Therefore I pronounce you to be the pride of fair scotland. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL MONIKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful monikie! With your trees and shrubberies green Last Line: Which supplies the people with water belonging dundee. Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air. Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NEWPORT ON THE BRAES O' THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie mary, the maid o' the tay Last Line: Along the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Travel; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL NORTH BERWICK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green Last Line: Where the tourist can enjoy himself and be free from strite Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay. Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there. Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far Last Line: Defying sense to fathom. Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips BEYOND THE HAZE (A WINTER RAMBLE REVERIE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the road was straight, the afternoon was gray" Last Line: And all of a sudden find a trite relief Subject(s): Happiness;travel;winter; Joy;delight;journeys;trips BIRDS OF PASSAGE: PRELUDE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a twitter! What a tumult! What a whirr of wheeling wings! Last Line: Have men's generations vanished, waned and vanished into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BISHOP GLOBE-TROTTER, by LEWIS SASSE II Poem Text First Line: Being raised to the purple gave me an itching foot Last Line: Buddhists, confucianists, christians, and an atheist. Subject(s): Cairo; Prayer; Religion; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BLUE NUDE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please take this shy spanish girl Last Line: Already stirring toward morning, where it will be white. Subject(s): Silence; Travel; Truth; Journeys; Trips BLUE SHIRT, by PAUL W. SKEETERS Poem Text First Line: I saw a boy with a new blue shirt today Last Line: And carry wistful fire in my eyes. Subject(s): Dreams; Himalayas (mountains); Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOLERO 9, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nomadic hearts know there is no rose Subject(s): Travel; Memory; Journeys; Trips BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine. Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected transcripts on the steps of Last Line: And april dung storms. Subject(s): Confessions; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this Last Line: But, amen, yours. Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BROUGHTY FERRY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of broughty ferry Last Line: From the top the ships sailing on the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the cold streets tangled like old strings, Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Writing a letter he said Last Line: Slowly he drove up to the starting line Subject(s): Isle Of Wight; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips BUSINESS GIRLS, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the geyser ventilators Last Line: Trolley-bus and windy street! Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom' Last Line: Fore the sun went down! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath Last Line: My song to the sea. Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips CABOOSE THOUGHTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's going to come out all right-do you know? Last Line: They get along -- and we'll get along. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CALGARY STATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dazzled by sun and drugged by space Last Line: While a new nation clamors at our gate! Subject(s): Calgary, Canada; Homeless; Poverty; Travel; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee. Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips CALIFORNIA'S HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Before us lie the seas which bring the east unto the west Last Line: As the future goes marching on. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; California; Patriotism; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Journeys; Trips CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794) Last Line: In her hem? Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips CAR RADIO, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An in-joke and the long days of faltering Subject(s): Automobiles; Radios; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips CARCASSONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm growing old, I've sixty years Last Line: He never gazed on carcassonne. Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips CESARE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One sorry town after another passed Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CHADOR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a taxi in isfahan we have no language Last Line: As the river bosoms the brooch of the sun. Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHARADES: 1, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood at greenwich, motionless amid Last Line: "remarked, ""by jove, a bird!" Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN UNVISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR Poem Text First Line: In the sybil book of youth Last Line: Chinatown, o chinatown. Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN VISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR Poem Text First Line: From sullen skies a cheerless rain Last Line: "china gel no li!" Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHRISTMAS AT SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand Last Line: Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Christmas; Sea; Travel; Nativity, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips CHRISTMAS NEW, by JOSEPH TWYMAN Poem Text First Line: A story is told of three wise men who travelled over the plains Last Line: They can live, and give, and live. Subject(s): Christmas; Generosity; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips CINEMA OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright though the boughs of the moon like a dead planet Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Self; Travel; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Journeys; Trips CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw Last Line: Bathed in light! Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips CODA, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strong song tows Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Colorado, you are glorious Last Line: Near the mountains of our god. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips COLORED COUNTRIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: From greenland's icy mountains to / far-off borneo Last Line: Geography that's studied so. Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Greenland; September; Travel; Journeys; Trips COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips COMMUTERS, by ADELE M. RYERSON Poem Text First Line: They faintly smile or weakly grin Last Line: "of knowing they have to return on the ""5:15"" train." Subject(s): Commuters; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CORINNA TO TANAGRA, FROM ATHENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tanagra! Think not I forget Last Line: Why linger? I must haste, or lose the delphic bays. Subject(s): Tanagra, Greece; Travel; Journeys; Trips COUSIN AGGIE: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seal of sixty summers now Last Line: If gone before, we soon shall meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips DA POSTA-CARD FROM NAPOLI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: So, you gon' sail for italy? Last Line: No peecture-card from napoli? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips DARK DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Whirring wheels that grind beneath me Last Line: Black the night or bright the day. Subject(s): Prayer; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DARK HARBOR: 1, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night without end in the soaking dark Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DAY BY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With staff and shoon I journey Last Line: Fares onward day by day? Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Journeys; Trips DAY COACH, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tickets please Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills. Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DE GUSTIBUS', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees Last Line: So it always was, so shall ever be! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DE SENE VERONENSI, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man that all his days hath spent Last Line: This man hath liv'd, though that hath travell'd more. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DEATH'S BLUE-EYED GIRL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the garden with its banked flowers Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEPARTED TRAVELLERS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: I have been exiled among stony hilltops Last Line: Have wistful eyes. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips DEPARTURE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: The sun is just completing his long day Last Line: Without an earthly fear, nor dread, nor doubt. Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States DESCRIPTIVE JOTTINGS OF LONDON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon london bridge and viewed the mighty throng Last Line: Mr spurgeon was the only man I heard speaking proper english I do declare. Subject(s): London; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips DESTINATIONS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home is mysterious: a place to die, a place to breed Last Line: Short wind says “snow” Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips DILEMMA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows fall as the sun sinks down Last Line: Or be lost on a midnight-road? Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sun; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DISCOVERY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I traveled the road of the restless Last Line: And the god of love were one. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DISTANT VOICES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I left my home for travelling Last Line: I'll find—perhaps in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DIVINE ADVENTURE, by DOROTHY SPROULE Poem Text First Line: Unmoored and free my ships go out Last Line: A crown linked to a cross. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, when studying road atlases Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH TRAINS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning a promise Subject(s): Railways; Travel; Egypt; Journeys; Trips DOVER TO MUNICH, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell! Before our prow Last Line: Layer on layer, the night came on. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DOWN THE RIVER, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the sound of it drawing nearer Last Line: Down the river that bears him, dead. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Travel; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'! Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation DRUMMER HODGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They throw in drummer hodge, to rest Last Line: His stars eternally. Variant Title(s): The Dead Drummer Subject(s): Boer War; Travel; War; South African War; Journeys; Trips EAST TEXAS, by IRENE DENMAN KISER Poem Text First Line: We're traveling today in east texas Last Line: Where the red hilly highway ends and starts. Subject(s): Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin' Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass. Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh! Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day! Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel; Journeys; Trips ELLIS ISLAND, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three thousand miles of atlantic seas and a throb Last Line: "the grain of sand, the earth, the soul, our country—the word ""god!" Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 2. TREASURE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: My trunk brought home the silken shawl Last Line: And on and on -- Subject(s): Danube (river); Rome, Italy; Travel; Treasures; Venice, Italy; Journeys; Trips EPIGRAM ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir drake, whom well the world's end knew" Last Line: His fellow traveller Subject(s): "consolation;drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);travel;" Journeys;trips EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPISTLE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Travelling, saith horace, somewhere, in a letter Last Line: Safe in th' inspiring shade of sweet tranquillity. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips EPISTLE FROM ALGIERS (TO HORACE SMITH), by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear horace! Be melted to tears Last Line: I will palm no more puns upon you. Subject(s): Algiers; Puns; Smith, Horace (1779-1849); Travel; Journeys; Trips EPITAPH ON A WAITER, by DAVID MCCORD Poet's Biography First Line: By and by Variant Title(s): Waiter;on A Waiter Subject(s): Travel; Waiters & Waitresses; Journeys; Trips ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not. Variant Title(s): Sonnet;by The Sea;sunset And Sea;holy Calm;on The Sea-shore Near Calais;composed Upon The Beach, Near Calais;the Holiness Of Childhood;composed Upon The Beach Near Calais, August, 1802 Subject(s): God; Nature; Pantheism; Travel; Journeys; Trips EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges Last Line: Lone upon wide wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When seated in my easy chair Last Line: Lost in the southern sea. Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips FAREWELL OUR FATHERS' LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell our fathers' land Last Line: Then farewell our fathers' land, &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips FAREWELL TO MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, ye joys of la valette Last Line: And bless the gods I've got a fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Malta; Travel; Journeys; Trips FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AND THE AEROPLANE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Well, 'mandy, I got home alive Last Line: And a little bigger load. Subject(s): Clergy; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains! Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way. Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War FOLLOWERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Driving east on buddha's birthday Last Line: And climb a tree though few of us do. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Travel; Journeys; Trips FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FREIGHTIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty miles from taggart's store Last Line: Out the stretchin' road. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips FROM A LONG WAY OUT OF PAH-GATZIN-KAY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all those I love Last Line: I hold myself in my own arms like a dead friend Subject(s): China; Travel; Weariness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue FROM BOURBAH TO BULLAGREEN, by JACK MOSES Poem Text First Line: You take my tip, for stick and slip Last Line: From bourbah to bullagreen. Subject(s): Desolation; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM GRENOBLE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now have I seen, in graisivaudan's vale Last Line: And the rose-garden of my gracious home. Subject(s): Grenoble, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In italy how comes the spring? Last Line: In italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips FROM THE GULF, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Store cattle from nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past Last Line: What's ours to fare, by god they'll share! For we've been droving too! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM THE ROAD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stops me is the big indifference Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips GARDEN AT HEIDELBERG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill me the beaker Last Line: For this fresh air and fragrant wine. Subject(s): Heidelberg, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we Last Line: But never stay abroad to play. Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GEORGE WYNDHAM: JUNE 8TH, 1913, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, poet, courtier, / he was these and more than these Last Line: The white road thou travellest by. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Travel; Wyndham, George. 3d Earl Of Egremont; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips GETTING TO SPRING (NOT WITHOUT TREPIDATION), by ROBERT LAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the back of the florida basker Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't walk across that bridge in hannibal Last Line: Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Travel; Violence; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: At last we've reached the famous place Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude. Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GLASGOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful city of glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean Last Line: Chorus. Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes Last Line: As mountains Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GO!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship was waiting in the bay Last Line: As we two go. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Pastoral Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight. Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Due east, far west. Distant as the nests of the Last Line: Through a wide gateway. Occident -- orient -- after fifty years. Subject(s): Asia; Travel; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Journeys; Trips HAVE YOU (ON THE ROAD TO KINLOCHEVEN), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you tramped about in winter, when your / boots were minus soles? Last Line: You do not know the happiness that fills a navvy's life. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: All ashore that's going!' Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once more the sun is shining Last Line: Defy the sea again! Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips HAWAIIAN ISLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hawaiian isles, like emeralds Last Line: In their fair land of flowers. Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips HEADING OUT, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond here there's no map Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains! Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HERE HE IS!, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jim's got back. An' who is jim? Last Line: Jim's got back! Subject(s): Gypsies; Travel; Gipsies; Journeys; Trips HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say Last Line: "e poi muori!" Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips HERON, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the copper marsh / I saw a stilted heron / wade the tidal wash Last Line: Marsh flew through my flesh Subject(s): Environment; Herons; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips HILO'S HOSTELRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hilo, of thee I often dream! Last Line: And plant it secretly. Subject(s): Guests; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Visiting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH Poem Text First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips HO FOR NOA NOA, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I think I'd like to go a Last Line: But I'm not! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips HOME AT LAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child, do not fear Last Line: There we shall sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips HOME TRAVEL, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What need I travel, since I may Last Line: The little world in folio. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My adirondack mountain home Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HOMEWARD BOUND, by E. B. S. Poem Text First Line: Between the hills, between the hills Last Line: My own home-light shall shine for me. Subject(s): Homecoming; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips I WOULD GO ADVENTURING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I would go -- would go adventuring Last Line: But fate, the jester, gave me the hearth fire! Subject(s): Home; Reality; Travel; Journeys; Trips I'M GOING TO BOMBAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is brown, my eyes are blue Last Line: I'm going to bombay! Subject(s): Bombay, India; Travel; Journeys; Trips IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go Last Line: Enny way, what would you do? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips IMAGES: 3, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between cordova and seville Last Line: Through their cigar-stench, in the dining-car. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Poverty; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips IMMOBILITY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a few years I roamed the country, pennsylvania, alabama, oregon Last Line: To the white throats, the thrushes, the cardinals singing in the miniature forest on the hill? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPLORA PACE, by CHARLES LOTIN HILDRETH Poem Text First Line: I stood within the cypress gloom Last Line: "peace I implore!"" and this alone." Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IN A CAB, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain-and the lights of the city Last Line: The desolate rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Taxis; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: This is a curious place Last Line: Of golden dreams! Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America IN AN AEROPLANE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Merged in a moving picture earth goes by Last Line: Close to the confines of eternity. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Tourists; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! My dear! I'm back again Last Line: Ere it drowns me, kate, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bohemians; Poetry & Poets; Spring; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets Last Line: Aloud and here and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips IN PRAISE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED (BORN 1775, DIED 1847), by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the days of president washington Last Line: There by the doors of old fort wayne. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Chapman, John (1774-1845); Patriotism; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN SUSPENSE, by GEORGE BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The composition of many particulars Last Line: Into a difficult place, though we weren't particular. Subject(s): Travel; Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York City; Journeys; Trips IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD (HENRI MATISSE), by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was the shield of another language Subject(s): Travel; Language; Journeys; Trips; Words; Vocabulary IN TOWN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there's a willow budding Last Line: When's the next train out of town? Subject(s): Country Life; Railroads; Towns; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips IN TRAVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now our white sail flutters down Last Line: Ghostlike sinks last night's last star? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IN TUSCANY: IN FLORENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: O tuscan days, my true, gold-hearted days Last Line: I see thee now, o little tuscan town! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips INASMUCH, by DOROTHY SPROULE Poem Text First Line: You asked not whence we came, nor where we went Last Line: Name us your god that we may worship him. Subject(s): Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips INCIDENT AT BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges town is many a street Last Line: Of english liberty? Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us. Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 8, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye powers unseen, to whom the bards of greece Last Line: His reason, fancy, and his heart unite. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips INSTANCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nice place ya got here Last Line: In malinche's country Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSULARUM OCELLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sark, fairer than aught in the world than the lit skies cover Last Line: Sark. Subject(s): Roundels; Travel; Journeys; Trips INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To come back from the sweet south, to the north Last Line: And the sweet name to my mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips ITINERARY, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Nature; Journeys; Trips JANUARY MORNING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to Last Line: That's the way it is with me somehow. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips JAUNT, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verona, ohio / right 3 miles Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Journeys; Trips JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road Last Line: "and blur the dream!" Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, beneath the horizon westering slow Last Line: And they betook them to their homely rest. Subject(s): France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Travel; War; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips JOURNEY FROM COPENHAGEN TO SKODSBORG, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the hedge the elder-blossoms lean Last Line: The sun and moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long journey out of the self, Subject(s): Travel; Landscape; Journeys; Trips JOURNEYS, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY Poem Text First Line: Not the speediest of coaches Last Line: And they not know! Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Sewing; Travel; Nightmares; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rode one evening with count maddalo Last Line: All happened -- but the cold world shall not know. Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips KANGAROO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the northern hemisphere Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel; Journeys; Trips KATHMANDU GUEST HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs bark themselves Last Line: On whose faces the times keep changing. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Travel; Journeys; Trips L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each in the self-same field we glean Last Line: And lighter-hearted than voltaire. Subject(s): Islands; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips LAKE LOUISE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Only divinity, enrapt, could mould Last Line: The lonely lovliness of lake louise. Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips LALLA ROOKH: THE VEILED PROPHET OF KHORASSAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that delightful province of the sun Last Line: He and his zelica sleep side by side. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): India; Prophecy & Prophets; Travel; Turkmen; Journeys; Trips; Turkomans LAND O' DREAMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's over the mountains, a million miles, it's Last Line: Dreams come true. Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old Last Line: Loy, a half-spade. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LEAVING AN UNKNOWN CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That mutt with ribs showing Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there! Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LET'S GO SOME PLACE, by MYRL RHINE Poem Text First Line: Come, let's go to london Last Line: We might go for a walk? Subject(s): Travel; Walking; Journeys; Trips LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 17, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind my back I have returned to life with much more surprise Last Line: Pier. You might want her even in your ghostly form. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Poverty; Travel; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Journeys; Trips LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendly it stands, that inn upon the plain Last Line: What inn it was, or by whom tenanted. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride Last Line: Hushed and wistfully. Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1), by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west Last Line: The far lamp glows. Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LIFE'S VENTURE, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: I've followed the trail / for many a year Last Line: Our feet getting caught. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LIGHT STREET WHARF, BALTIMORE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Perhaps you have tasted the salty tang Last Line: And the sea-wind's salty tang. Subject(s): Streets; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips LIMITED, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation Last Line: "I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: ""omaha." Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips LINDY-GRAMS: 1. LINDY'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Straight as a bird upon its course Last Line: Shall seldom see again. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Islands; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINDY-GRAMS: 2. LINDY FLEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When lindy flew across the sea Last Line: "and brought back home our colonel ""slim." Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Travel; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF LA PEROUSE'S VOYAGES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loved voyager! His pages had a zest Last Line: His watery course -- a world-encircling line. Subject(s): Galaup, Jean Francois (1741-1788); Travel; La Perouse, Comte De; Journeys; Trips LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little eskimo, are you Last Line: Like to live in our land, too? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because they lived near a major airport Last Line: Wings? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Travel; Wheels; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are tired of those places Last Line: Beyond, a green continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips LOCH KATRINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch katrine in all thy majesty so grand Last Line: It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. Subject(s): Katrine, Loch (scotland); Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH LEVEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch leven, near by kinross Last Line: And the old wall around it is mouldering away Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH NESS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch ness, / the truth to express Last Line: Oh, beautiful loch ness! I must bid you good-bye. Subject(s): Landscape; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LOOKING AT YOUR FACE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking at your face / now you have become ready to die Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE'S VICISSITUDES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As love and hope together Last Line: The sweetest pipe of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Hope; Love; Travel; Optimism; Journeys; Trips LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once I sat upon the shore Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life. Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I travelled among unknown men Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed. Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men""; Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the heart Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome. Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LUGGAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She carries her eyes from country to country Last Line: How it is good we only have two hands Subject(s): Absence; Strangers; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LYDFORD JOURNEY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I oft have heard of lydford law Last Line: Unless by some tin warrant. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Travel; Attorneys; Journeys; Trips LYNTON VERSES: 4. LYNTON TO PORLOCK (EXMOOR), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lynton when you drive to porlock Last Line: Shoot honey-tongued quintessence of july! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips MAGIC, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love a still conservatory Last Line: And the echoing heart deceives. Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wilderness; Woods; Journeys; Trips MAGIC TOURS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I hear the far-off whistle of a train Last Line: Because a train has whistled on the track. Subject(s): Railroads; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAINE, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MEDIAS RES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The middle's where I wonder why as I wake Last Line: Imagination, I wonder knowing why. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Indonesia; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 3. LIDO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to greet the full may-moon Last Line: Than lido and its graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Lido (island), Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips MEMORIES, by BERYL ELECTA MOSHER Poem Text First Line: Oriental courtesy, jades and cloisonne Last Line: Keeper of a certain little art shop in nanking. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN Poem Text First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother? Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips MESSAGE TO MY FATHER, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Once, on a long-gone evening, you and I Last Line: Punctually, despite your being -- lame. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips METROPOLITAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows furry, grunts with sleep Last Line: Strange threads to hold time fast. Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MIDWAY THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We reach a place without a border Last Line: For the slow, unwinding spiral of our dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting universe of things Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy? Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips MORTIMER, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And as a traveler goes, alert to spy Last Line: And as a traveler -- goes. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips MOSAIC, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this tile Subject(s): Jews; Travel; Judaism; Journeys; Trips MOSS WAS A LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He put the halter round her neck - so moss caught his mare Subject(s): Animals;fields;horseback Riding;travel; Pastures;meadows;leas;journeys;trips MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias. Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A little gate my book can be Last Line: Afar in foreign fields I roam. Subject(s): Books; February; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance. Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips MY TRIP; FOR ROBERT CREELEY, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking at a smallpox vaccination scar Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips MY WESTERN LAND, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: My western land with all the thrill Last Line: My western land. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips NAENIAE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, soft be thy sleep in the land of the west Last Line: But more loved, ...O, how few, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's christmas eve in texas Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae." Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips NEW FRIENDSHIP, by HELEN I. STAPP Poem Text First Line: Quivering, the white fawn / watched from an Last Line: She springs down the pathway to meet him. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips NEW JERSEY TRANSIT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted up industrial natures you spy Subject(s): Railroads; New Jersey; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK AT NOON, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The city burrows toward the shade Last Line: On the silver-bristled swine. Subject(s): Geography; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves Last Line: I must try to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow. Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIAGARA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers Last Line: The days that carry us could be these. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the train bears west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NIGHT JOURNEY, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN Poem Text First Line: As we rode the lean white highway through the dark Last Line: Serving as dark a purpose of their own. Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer? Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the high plains Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A montparnasse august / with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips NO ROOM, by ELLIS ARTHUR REPASS Poem Text First Line: No room that night for them Last Line: And crown messiah king! Alternate Author Name(s): Repass, E. A. Subject(s): Christmas; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: But most avoid italia's coast Last Line: For british virtues left behind? Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips O LOVE, O LOVE, HOW LONG?, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tree that yearns with drooping crest Last Line: O love, o love, how long? Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips O TRAVELER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder Last Line: And crowned you with a curse? Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips OAK AND OLIVE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though I was born a londoner Last Line: One of the englishmen! Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips OBAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful oban with your lovely bay Last Line: And feast my eyes on your beautiful scenery, enchanting and gay. Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips OBSERVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch how other things travel Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wanderer, wilson, from my native land Last Line: Without the milk of human kindness? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to leyden's lonely bound Last Line: There public zeal shall all reproof disclaim. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips OF ENGLAND, AND OF ITS MARVELS, by FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI Poem Text First Line: Now to great britain we must make our way Last Line: Which might be fair to tell but which I hide. Alternate Author Name(s): Bonifazio Degli Uberti Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Salisbury, England; Travel; Journeys; Trips OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All human race, from china to peru Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence! Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips OFF AND RUNNING, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OIL OF DADA: FIRST LOOK, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM Poem Text First Line: Call over the men from zurich. Call a raft Last Line: But da, da, da! The canvas dribbles light! Subject(s): Bells; Travel; Journeys; Trips OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ON A CAVE, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tagus farewell! That westward with thy streams Last Line: Of mighty love the wings for this me give. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): In Spain;of His Returne From Spaine;epigram: 22 Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON INHABITING AN ORANGE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All our roads go nowhere. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON LEAVING MRS. BROWN'S LODGINGS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So goodbye, mrs. Brown Last Line: But all's one for that, since I must and will away. Subject(s): Farewell; Moving & Movers; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips ON LYNN TERRACE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day to watch the blue wave curl and break Last Line: And hollow caves of night. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I am a rhymer Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne. Variant Title(s): An Expectoration Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips ON THE EMINENT DR. EDWARD BROWNE'S TRAVELS, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus from a foreign clime rich merchants come Last Line: In subterranean cosmography. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The top of the world and an empty Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips ON THE ROADS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The road winds onward long and white Last Line: And the best of earth is here! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ON THE TAOS ROAD, by MAY REES Poem Text First Line: Two freighters, bronzed and lank, bend lightly down Last Line: Night's curtain half reveals a single star. Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Travel; Prairie Schooners; Journeys; Trips ON THE WAY TO HANGCHOW: ANCHORED ON THE RIVER AT NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little sleeping and much grieving, - the traveller Last Line: And still we have not reached hang-chow! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips ON THE YANGSTE KIANG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, so the ballad is sung Last Line: On the beautiful banks of the yangste kiang. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips ONE STEP AT A TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me Last Line: A single step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips OTRANTO, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset from the top of the stair watching Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OUR ITALIAN JOURNEY, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of our first stay in italy Last Line: Of which, though past, our speech is ever rife. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The halo round the seraph's head Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips OUR TRAVELLER, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: If thou would'st stand on etna's burning brow Last Line: Then, why the dickens don't you go and do it? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Death; Soul; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where of old was heard Last Line: "our watterson!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Honor; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips OUT BACK, by P. QUINN Poem Text First Line: We dumped our swags by the river-side when the sun was getting low Last Line: Twas the first gay time he had crossed that creek, but I had been there before. Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Vanity; Journeys; Trips OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Text Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains OUTSIDE THE CROWD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sit on history in an easy chair Last Line: That chapter for the historic word on wrecks. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips OUTWARD BOUND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips OUTWARD BOUND, by MAUDE E. COLE Poem Text First Line: I am traveling west Last Line: Is in my mouth. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER 2,000 ILLUSTRATIONS AND A COMPLETE CONCORDANCE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thus should have been our travels Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER THE RANGES, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Says allan machardy, 'beyond the high ranges there's land for the men Last Line: "is, ""may god help him then!" Subject(s): Deception; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER THE WATER WI' CHAIRLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er! Last Line: Or we lippen again to chairlie! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Boats; Travel; Water; Journeys; Trips PACIFIC COAST, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half across the world to westward there's Last Line: Half across the world from england many and many a year ago. Subject(s): Past; Travel; Journeys; Trips PADDING IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasing it out like niggers on a two and a / tanner sub Last Line: The journey to ballachulish, for this is the song of it. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Serfs; Journeys; Trips PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON Poem Text First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all. Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips PARAGUAY, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the early hours of the lovebirds Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air. Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips PAROO RIVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a week from christmas-time Last Line: "this is the paroo river!" Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips PASSENGER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This one on the platform Last Line: She boards with an assault motion. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips PASSENGERS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the gate, I sit in a row of blue seats Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips PASSING OF THE PIONEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Open out the window, let him face the west Last Line: Far he is faring on a new frontier. Subject(s): Pioneers; Travel; Journeys; Trips PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PEEING ALL OVER THE PENINSULA, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips PEG OF LIMAVADDY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Riding from coleraine Last Line: Peg of limavaddy! Subject(s): Limavaddy, Ireland; Travel; Youth; Journeys; Trips PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a temple of the toes Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips PHILADELPHIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're off to philadelphia in the morning Last Line: They are all in pennsylvania this morning! Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Travel; Journeys; Trips PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it you ask me, darling? Last Line: And the fire had died away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF THE RHINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of romance dies not to those Last Line: And bridal vines drink in his juices on each side. Subject(s): Nature; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE HARTZ JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In black coats and silken stockings Last Line: When loudly the trumpet's note swell'd. Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE RETURN HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my life, a life of darkness Last Line: Keeping up his wretched dinning Subject(s): Hearts; Homecoming; Life; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips PLAYING JACKS IN BHAKTAPUR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a cruciform cloth squared in black and white Last Line: She names. Subject(s): Games; Travel; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips POCKET POEM, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If this comes creased and creased again and soiled Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips POND STREET, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: The trees are high over pond street Last Line: A leisurely minute ... Subject(s): Peace; Travel; Journeys; Trips PORT BOU, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child holds a pet Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Guns; Travel; Journeys; Trips POSSESSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth sat down on a wayside Last Line: The world and its giving belonged to him. Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Journeys; Trips PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by. Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by ALDFRITH Poem Text First Line: I found in innisfail the fair Last Line: From the irish. Tr. James clarence mangan. Alternate Author Name(s): Ealdfrith; Eahfrith Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading Last Line: Alone, alone! Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips RAMATUELLE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track Last Line: This was ramatuelle. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips REQUIESCAT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sought to build a deathless monument Last Line: Lie calm among my ruined thoughts and deeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips REST AT THE MERCY HOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because nature doesn't specialize Last Line: A momentary rest. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips RETURN TO NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far and free o'er the lifting sea, the lapsing wastes and Last Line: Love that sings, on the sea-wind's wings runs on to greet thee his very own. Subject(s): Homecoming; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips REVERIE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark road journeys to the darkening sky Last Line: All, all at last must take their sorrow home. Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE?, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians RIGHT!, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun was high and strong Last Line: "leading to this!" Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips RIOUPEROUX, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High and solemn mountains guard riouperoux Last Line: And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy. Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips RIVERS INTO SEAS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds Last Line: Adrift in the sea’s restless shouldering Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Seas; Rivers; Journeys; Trips ROADS WE TRAVEL BUT ONCE, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A road runs down through wonder town Last Line: Than roads we travel but once? Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROADWAYS, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Just as the little country road divides Last Line: By bringing peace to crown our happiness! Subject(s): Old Age; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROAMING, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I steady my staff at the crossroads, it falls with Last Line: For the road runs the wide world over, and the life of the road is the best. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips RUSH HOUR, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odd, the baby's scabbed face peeking over Last Line: Its motion that would begin like a blessing. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips SAINT CLOUD, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft spread the southern summer night Last Line: Our evenings at saint cloud. Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled Last Line: Sit in the beautiful houses, mobbed by cars Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel; Journeys; Trips SALUTATION, by RUTH STERRY Poem Text First Line: Did you choose the journey, friend? Last Line: At the inn in company. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN FRANCISCO BAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Grandest bay! Upon whose bosom navies of all the world Last Line: Blesséd gate, where millions find the golden boon of liberty! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; San Francisco Bay, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips SANTE FE TRAIL, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I go separately Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SAPPHICS: AT THE MOHAWK CASTLE, CANADA, by THOMAS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Ease is the prayer of him, who in a whaleboat / crossing lake champlain Last Line: Dabbling in sapphic. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With satan joyously leading the way Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town. Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips SATIRE: 1.5. JOURNEY TO BRUNDISIUM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a long journey lay before us Last Line: Stop short the muse and traveller. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SATIRES: 2. OF TRAVELLERS: FROM PARIS, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ben jonson, travel is a second birth Last Line: So end this satire, and bid thee good night. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SATURDAY NIGHT, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the ranch on a saturday night Last Line: If every night I was ridin' your way. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips SCAMPS OF ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're off across the hills today with merriment agog Last Line: With old glories on our stories, and our march -- tramp! Tramp! Subject(s): Mandeville, Sir John; Travel; Journeys; Trips SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes SEEING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it was water, poseidon presided Subject(s): Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Travel; Journeys; Trips SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name. Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Directed by the eyes of others Last Line: Theirs, no voyage is, no tunnel, door, nor way Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting SHEILING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go where the sheep go Last Line: There shall we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love Affairs; Sheep; Travel; Journeys; Trips SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea. Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SIESTA IN XBALBA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One could pass valuable months Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve's tinted shadows slowly fill the fane Last Line: Ever should pass those holy walls beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Graves; Saint Peter's Church, Rome; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Journeys; Trips SLEWED!, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was threatening to rain as the red sun sank down Last Line: Like paddy, my mate, in the dark get astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips SO LONG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: At least at night, a streetlight Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SOMETIMES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I long for a lazy isle Last Line: Back to the whirl again! Subject(s): Rest; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips SONG OF A PILGRIM-SOUL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay! Last Line: The creeds are milestones on the road to truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shake and rush of the engine Last Line: "of a black beast of burden like me?" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE HEMPSEED, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, scatter me well, 'tis a moist spring day Last Line: And a varied tale shall the hempseed tell. Subject(s): Seeds; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE WANDERING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My ornaments are sword and spear Last Line: May bid these knightly lips kiss thee Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Journeys;trips SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE Poem Text First Line: Water, parted from the sea Last Line: Till it reach its native home. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 10. BEFORE A JOURNEY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I shall set forth upon a journey Last Line: Til I assay them 'round a home-lit fire. Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONGS OF TRAVEL: 40. TROPIC RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled Last Line: And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNETS: 1. TO THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy god permits thee, but with dreadful hand Last Line: From us yet hidden and our blinded race. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips SOUTHWESTERN SOUL, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trucker stops. Vanishing points. Mirages Last Line: Behind each salvation is stranded Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming Last Line: I think of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips STAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of gaspard that certainly was not / his real name Last Line: Knows full well that one must not follow it Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America STEREOSCOPE, by PAUL GERALDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to see them. Take the negatives Last Line: Don't make it an historian. Subject(s): Memory; Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips STOPPING THE NIGHT AT JUNG-YANG, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up at jung-yang Last Line: Passionless, -- flow in their old course. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips SUNDERED PATHS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two travellers, worn with sun and rain Last Line: And drown their voices each from each. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SUNSET CABOOSE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freight train, freight train / going so fast' Last Line: To what is brought out of light Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips SUNSET OVER HANDMADE CHURCH, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like, / people get emotionally tied to Last Line: Ghosts. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love Affairs; Travel; Journeys; Trips SWEET STAY-AT-HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stay-at-home, sweet, well content Last Line: Not for the knowledge in thy mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Travel; Journeys; Trips SWITZERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the steamy, stuffy midlands, 'neath an english summer sky Last Line: And the true delight of living, as you taste it only there! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips TEA THE PALAZ OF HOON, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not less because in purple I descended Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: COMING HOME ON THE OX'S BACK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mount the ox Last Line: I claim the man Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Travel; Journeys; Trips TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TERMINALS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A railroad station at the city's heart Last Line: Romance to every wharf at which they swing. Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ADAMS RIVER BUSH, by M. J. O'REILLY Poem Text First Line: We left good old coolgardie Last Line: With the adams river rush. Alternate Author Name(s): Mick, Mulga Subject(s): Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly. Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE ALL RIGHT UN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from further out Last Line: Was 'a all right un'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY Poem Text First Line: The little red road climbs the hill Last Line: "who were a hundred years away." Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lake aghmoogenegamook Last Line: Moosehicmagunticook. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America THE ANCIENT TOWN OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient town of leith, most wonderful to be seen Last Line: Because they have always been very kind to me. Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay Last Line: Back to its home—the sun. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A street there is in paris famous Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse! Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips THE BALLADE OF ALL OUT-DOORS, by RALPH P. PERRY Poem Text First Line: When the sky is getting mellow, and the Last Line: For its all out-doors a-callin' to its own. Subject(s): Pleasure; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE BARBER ABROAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said crimp the hair-dresser, when he Last Line: His hankering for greece! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barbers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIES AROUND US, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: The beautiful scenes around us Last Line: Old utah, is just good enough for me. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills. Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE BONNIE SIDLAW HILLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie clara, will you go to the bonnie sidlaw hills Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE ROAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails THE BOWERS OF PARADISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, traveller, who hast wandered far Last Line: There are the bowers of paradise! Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure." Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: The road winds grey, deserted Last Line: Waiting for many feet. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CARAVAN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From underneath the carob shade Last Line: One bourn for every caravan! Subject(s): Caravans; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips THE CASTLE OF MAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of the mains Last Line: To hear the birds singing and the humming of the bee. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land Last Line: Vainly in hell let pluto domineer. Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE CHOICE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was weary Last Line: Hath such draught to sell?' Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE CLOUD, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One late spring evening in bohemia Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE COCKNEY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in my foreign travel Last Line: That was mentioned in the bill! Subject(s): Speech; Travel; Oratory; Orators; Journeys; Trips THE COHERENCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the Last Line: Speech Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Dancing & Dancers; Music, Rock; Travel; Rock & Roll; Journeys; Trips THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMING OF LIGHT, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even this late it happens Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You send me your poems Last Line: If you will send me one of you Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CUMMERBUND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sate upon her dobie Last Line: And swollow you outright. Subject(s): Nonsense; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CURSE OF THE WANDERING FOOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope of rest withdrawn me! Last Line: The curse of the wandering foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Curses; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by EMMA LEE GLENN Poem Text First Line: How far on the road to damascus Last Line: You have traveled this glorious day. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DARK WAGGON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water-wraith shrieked over clyde Last Line: Sir william wallace stept! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Travel; Wagons; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE DEAD EAGLE; WRITTEN AT ORAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen as he is, this king of birds still seems Last Line: Of glassy runnels bubbling over rocks. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Oran, Algeria; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DEATH OF PETER CLARK, by HUBERT H. PARRY Poem Text First Line: The sun was blazing fiercely on the cracked and dusty plain Last Line: And horses groan and labour, as the teamster rides beside. Alternate Author Name(s): Barwon Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some are home-sick - some two or three Last Line: Are your delinquent travellers! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DEN O' FOWLIS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful den o' fowlis, most charming to be seen Last Line: And such a blessing to the people shouldn't be forgot. Subject(s): Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE DEPARTURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this roadstead I have ridden Last Line: Sighed plaintively. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a journey to clifton Last Line: For the sense and the sound, they say, should be the same. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee Last Line: "see first of all thy native land." Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States THE ELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Blessed, blessed be the eld Last Line: The daughter of the eld. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE EMBARKATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee! Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fortu, fortu, my beloved one Last Line: In black from the skies! Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE EXCURSION: OR: O COLUMBUS!, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning when mrs. Murphy's treasure chest opens Last Line: And the seas fill up with the sharks of auld lang syne Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips THE FAR FIELD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of journeys repeatedly Subject(s): Travel; Rivers; Death; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE FAR-FARERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broad sun / the bright day Last Line: Return no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand Last Line: I, fa-hien.' Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly english yellowboy Last Line: With the dollars of peru! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE FLEETING VISITANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These parting words we have to say Last Line: Seems on its farewell tour Subject(s): Farewell;guests;travel; Parting;visiting;journeys;trips THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE FOURTH WISE MAN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE GOAL, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: We do not travel on beyond the place Last Line: With wings all spread to fly at one lone call. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Travel; Destiny; Journeys; Trips THE GOD OF NOON, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black goats I herded with my sister; they Last Line: From him the cammomile's kind use I learned. Subject(s): Kindness; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend. Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips THE GORING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arena dust rusted by four bulls' blood to a dull redness Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT OPEN SPACES, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spin me a yarn of the bounding sea Last Line: And so does his bank account. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT SAINT BERNARD, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night was again descending, when my mule Last Line: Bread to the hungry, to the weary rest. Subject(s): Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HAPPY TRAVELLER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the monarch of the road? Last Line: I travel to the far away! Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE HILLS OF OLD VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'native' hills of old vermont Last Line: Amidst the hills of old vermont. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun! Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE HOUSE WITH THE PICTURE HUNG OVER THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wherever we travel, by road or by rail" Last Line: The house with the picture hung over the door Subject(s): Home;travel; Journeys;trips THE HUNTER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunter crouches in his blind Subject(s): Hunting; Travel; Hunters; Journeys; Trips THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan! Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE IMPULSE OF SINGING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: That journey he made Last Line: How bitterly beautiful, before the madwomen ripped him? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INDIAN MAID. DEMARARIE, OCT. 27, 1781, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786) Poem Text First Line: The indian maid who lightly trips, / the dryad of the guava grove Last Line: Prove her the goddess of the place! Subject(s): Travel; West Indies; Journeys; Trips; Caribbean Islands THE INDIAN SIGN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I'm touring Last Line: "detour!" Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, by RICHARD POLWHELE Poem Text First Line: Each object by a few short years how changed! Last Line: Wear, like the joys they speak of, the pale cold damp of years! Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee. Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went over fossil hill Last Line: Flowers that I bless with living eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Wisdom; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Travel; Spiders; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY INTO FRANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I came from england into france Last Line: Who (men thought) did the same Subject(s): Travel; Journeys;trips THE JOURNEY ON, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lips shall kiss thy brows! Last Line: As we together take the long, long journey on! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back. Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my key to happiness Last Line: My sugar and my cream. Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE Poem Text First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call. Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I set out for the land of content Last Line: I came to the land of content. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips THE LAST MAN: A CROCODILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the lilied nile I saw Last Line: Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat. Subject(s): Crocodiles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LAST SONG, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a long journey and a sore Last Line: (only within your arms is my content.) Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog-woggy Last Line: The world. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE TOBOGGAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Interpretation is an overworked word Last Line: For them it is heaven to climb and to ride. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sports Utility Vehicles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LONG JOURNEY, by SUSAN R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: A ghostly caravan of women bowed Last Line: She weirdly plods her way fore'er detached. Subject(s): Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home! Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The long trail calls! Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the earth burns! Each pebble under foot Last Line: Oh, this is rest! Oh, this is paradise! Subject(s): Nature; Oases; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MASK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In open palm the old man cradles his Last Line: I leave with her naked countenance. Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE MEETING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old coach-road through a common of furze Last Line: And either went their way. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Journeys; Trips THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road Last Line: That's suffering to croak. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news Last Line: And again, on his way? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MOUNT, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have tempered haste Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MURDERED TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring, to woods and wastes around Last Line: Far down that narrow glen. Subject(s): Travel; Murder; Journeys; Trips THE MUSMEE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The musmee has brown-velvet eyes Last Line: O medeto gozarimas! Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE MYSTIC, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quest that calls me Last Line: Where just beyond lies god. Subject(s): God; Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NAME WRIT IN WATER (PLAZA DI SPAGNA, ROME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder's the window my poet would sit in Last Line: Listen! My waters will whisper his name. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NETHERLANDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green Last Line: And water seen -- Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE NEWPORT RAILWAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the newport railway Last Line: On the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHTINGALE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone warbler! Thy love-melting heart supplies Last Line: So kind and watchful is celestial love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail. Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE OLD MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend! Why, you seem bent on parish duty Last Line: The same old bounty and old welcome there. Subject(s): Facades; Hospitality; Strangers; Travel; Appearances; Journeys; Trips THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where they once dug for money Last Line: By the old marlborough road. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE PACKET RAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave this western ocean, to the Last Line: It's the bloomin' western ocean what 'll get me when I'm dead! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PATH TO PANAMA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Bring your dredges, uncle sam Last Line: Along the path to panama. Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands? Last Line: The glory freedom radiates! Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PERMANENT BRAND, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a maverick runnin' free Last Line: The first class lot from the mavericks! Subject(s): Love; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PILGRIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle pilgrim, tell me why Last Line: God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Journeys; Trips THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty. Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, he never can tell Last Line: The world about. Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PIPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well Last Line: You can never pipe my fancy from my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 106, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The layered bloom of hills and streams Last Line: What more could I want in that land of dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born thirty years ago Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 176, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall the places I've been Last Line: I would hug my knees in a frigid wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 23, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seasonal round never stops Last Line: Depart and don't return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 29, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pole your three winged galleons Last Line: I have nothing to convey Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 43, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white crane carries a bitter flower Last Line: His wife and children don't know him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cranes (birds); Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PORT, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, upon a path of fairy flow'rs Last Line: And canopied with cloud! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PRAIRIE SPEAKING, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prairie Last Line: I am the prairie Subject(s): Love; Sea; Tourists; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE PROGRESS OF ERROR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, muse, (if such a theme, so dark, so long) Last Line: Bled, groaned and agonized, and died, in vain. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What were our forefathers trying Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay! Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green. Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belly down on the rug Last Line: Durango, chinook, ramona, monongahela. Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE READERSHIP, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose must have been orbiting all the time Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE REAL TRAVELERS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was supposed to snow, but it rained Last Line: The real travelers etting out for mars Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Neighbors; Journeys; Trips THE REPEATED JOURNEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again and again I make the intolerable journey Last Line: We were for a season Subject(s): Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE RIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We rose in the clear, cool dawning, and greeted the eastern star Last Line: And ride to the pearl of cities from the huts of kerf hawar. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips THE RIDER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rode out over the moorland Last Line: And his ears were stopped with clay. Subject(s): Travel; Wales; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAD, by GEORGE ROBERT MCKEITH Poem Text First Line: What if I cannot see the road Last Line: And reach the final goal! Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE, by ELEANOR DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The road I traveled yesterday Last Line: At the end of the road to everywhere! Subject(s): Future; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAMER: BOOK 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harken, o outcast race, to man outcast, / into the desert driven in his youth Last Line: Crying, and on its forehead was a star. Subject(s): Strength; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SAILING LIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading my paper, dully enough, when just as it chanced, I found Last Line: Never, never, never get to go! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD WITH HIS SON, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what harper could worthily harp it Last Line: Of seven or eight. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SEA-HOUNDS, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Relentless, the sea - hounds follow on Last Line: In spain or portugal or bright bombay. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SECRETARY; WRITTEN AT THE HAGUE, 1696, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix Last Line: So blest as the englishen heer secretar' is. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims Last Line: Seems a lost star. Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A town lies in the valley Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise. Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THE SNAIL'S PACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the snake to the snail: 'how absurdly you crawl!' Last Line: "can any one beat me in traversing space?" Subject(s): Snails; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Straight from the cool green arms Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam. Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All / wrong Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9. VISION OF THE WORLD, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I walked, in raptures high Last Line: As I in vision view'd! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE STOP-OVER, by ELIZABETH TANNER Poem Text First Line: Night is here Last Line: To rest awhile till dawn. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STORM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide Last Line: Violently southward Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG: SIGURD'S RIDE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So up and up they journeyed, and ever as they went Last Line: And wends his ways through the twilight the foe of the gods to meet. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STRANGE HOURS TRAVELERS KEEP, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The markets never rest Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THE SWEATER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will lose you. It is written Last Line: His death into the sweater. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Loss; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Telephones; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE THREE MUSICIANS, by AUBREY BEARDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Along the path that skirts the wood Last Line: Red as his guide-book grows, moves on, and offers up a prayer for france. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TICKET AGENT, by EDMUND LEAMY Poem Text First Line: Like any merchant in a store Last Line: He deals in dreams, and calls it -- work! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TINAJERA NOTEBOOK, by FORREST GANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through my torso, the smooth Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TOURISTS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving was their passion Last Line: The state of simple being Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held. Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAIN-MISSER; AT UNION STATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ll where in the world my eyes has bin Last Line: Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELED MAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out Last Line: Who has not strayed beyond his meadows fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELER, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELER, by ANNE MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: A loosened leaf blown by the casual wind Last Line: Took up the savage journey home again. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELING MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can Last Line: Will welcome the traveling man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire. Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by MARJORIE WEIRICH Poem Text First Line: When I had thought a journey I would take Last Line: To book-fed dreams? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER HEART, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would be one with the dark, dark earth Last Line: When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough! Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller Last Line: That welcomes his return. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRIP FROM CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shoe-fixery and on the train Subject(s): Travel; Pleasure; Journeys; Trips THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE TRYST AT BETHLEHEM, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The daily tasks are set aside Last Line: "my tryst at bethlehem." Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Travel; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by Last Line: At the turn of the road.' Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TWO TRAVELLERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas evening, and before my eyes Last Line: Had passed, and he was lost to sight. Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE VERMONT THRASHERS ARE COMING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yep; there they come there down the road Last Line: "say; jabe, you've got to 'feed 'er in.'" Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE VERMONTER DEPARTING, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He drove alone beside his sugar bush Last Line: All that last hour before the evening train. Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE VILLAGE OF TAYPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be Last Line: Along the bonnie banks o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VISITOR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the other side of this world wide Last Line: Pilgrimage singing in the stranger's mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who climbs the equatorial main Last Line: It sees all heaven before its view. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE OF THE 'OPHIR', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of our race, we send you one Last Line: And strength to service vowed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE; TO MAXIME DU CAMP, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the child, in love with maps and pictures Last Line: What matter? Into the unknown in search of the new! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus-like, I sailed into the night Last Line: Life's indies lay behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare delight of seeing Last Line: And where its voices call, thither my steps must be! Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet were life, - this life, if we Last Line: O'er the happy grass to find me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love, - my chosen, - but not mine! Last Line: Thine own, and only thine, my love, forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour of hesperus! The hour when feeling Last Line: And to the distance sighingly entreat her? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is unkind, unkind! Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CONDEMNED ONES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above thy child I saw thee bend Last Line: That hope to help us was not given! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: COUNT RINALDO RINALDI, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a dark-purple, moonlighted midnight Last Line: The eyes of mnemosyne there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: DESIRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden planet of the occident Last Line: Go forth, across the world, and find my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder that I loved her thus, that night? Last Line: Her mystic name. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: FATALITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen her, with her golden hair Last Line: And its wild white stars that love us. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: INDIAN LOVE SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body sleeps: my heart awakes Last Line: Through mist and darkness moves toward thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One yellow star, the largest and the last Last Line: That, through a rapture, I had toucht her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends! Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold Last Line: Of elephanta, the red. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A falling star that shot across Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love that deep within me lies Last Line: Its rooted growth beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SINCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words like to these were said, or dreamed Last Line: Must beat or break for. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shape to shape, all day Last Line: Of still desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE LAST MESSAGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fling the lattice open Last Line: Before the night is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE MAGIC LAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By woodland belt, by ocean bar Last Line: "to one sweet note, sighed ""italy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair Last Line: From perdition made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: VENICE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sylphs and ondines Last Line: To bury my heart -- one grave more to the many! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Venice, Italy; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: WARNINGS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, beware of witchery! Last Line: Cordelia! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: 'PRENSUS IN AEGAEO', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis toil must help us to forget Last Line: And leads me...Whither? Whither? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A L'ENTRESOL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One circle of all its golden hours Last Line: And the ghost of a dream I dreamed! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A REMEMBRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas eve and may when last, through tears Last Line: An age ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, mignonne, ma belle -- when you are gone Last Line: The poor thing's slumber. Let it still sleep on! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ASTARTE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the latest strife is lost, and all is done with Last Line: Mid the spirits that are passed beyond the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME AFTER THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clocks are calling three Last Line: Some women have gone mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME DURING THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard upon the dawn, and yet Last Line: Have beds below the willow! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AU CAFE ***, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A party of friends, all light-hearted and gay Last Line: In thy heart lurks a weird necromancer -- 't is thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Paris, France; Parties; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there Last Line: Non ti scordar di me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): At The Opera Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the days are silent all Last Line: "shall a voice still moan...""remember!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: MADAME LA MARQUISE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The folds of her wine-dark violet dress Last Line: ...Is it worth while to guess at all this? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: PROGRESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When liberty lives loud on every lip Last Line: Even to thyself? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Freedom; Travel; Liberty; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything Last Line: For truth, these tears are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SORCERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're a milk-white panther Last Line: Night is coming forth. Arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TERRA INCOGNITA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit beside her Last Line: Cold, unspotted, let her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little love, do you remember Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE LAST REMONSTRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! I am worse than thou didst once believe me Last Line: Still loving thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, I have a book at last Last Line: And you have not learned to read it. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TO MIGNONNE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At morning, from the sunlight Last Line: Things must rest so. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow is a day too far Last Line: Foresee the men we may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked about at hampton court Last Line: That pinched me all the while there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: BABYLONIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of simpering and grimace! Last Line: The inmate of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature! Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: SEE-SAW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a harlot, and I was a thief Last Line: With their hands, bless them all, in the popular purse! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger sent from burning lands Last Line: It never came to blossom. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE DEATH OF KING HACON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was odin that whispered in vingolf Last Line: Shall stand in the battle again. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the place by legends told Last Line: Or -- was it never found? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE LAST TIME THAT I MET LADY RUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are some things hard to understand Last Line: You see I can laugh. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: A QUIET MOMEMENT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay with me, lady, while you may! Last Line: Before again we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: THE HEART AND NATURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is calm; and calm, the skies Last Line: On michael's brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a quiet dream last night Last Line: That I could not speak a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake past midnight Last Line: "pray do not be afraid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Netherlands; Supernatural; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance, on earth, I shall not see thee ever Last Line: Soothe flowers in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: AUTUMN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: BLUEBEARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was to wed young fatima Last Line: "that night, in her own fatal hair." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus came to earth again Last Line: The moving of thy hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou never hast sought to divine Last Line: That must yearn after thine till it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the babe that dies within the womb Last Line: And curst that death which steals this life's disguise. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Netherlands; Travel; Dead, The; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FAILURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen those that wore heaven's armor worsted Last Line: Last sentence! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Failure; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FATIMA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago thy cheek was bright Last Line: When I talk in my dreams? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy Last Line: A knife across her throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Check To Song Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: JACQUELINE, COUNTESS OF HOLLAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the twilight, or my fading sight Last Line: Thy hand, my husband, -- so -- upon thy breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jacqueline Of Hainaut (1401-1436); Netherlands; Travel; Jacoba; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING LIMOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a wicked, old, gray king Last Line: And the love in her two large eyes? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: LEAFLESS HOURS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sun, through the spectral wood Last Line: Is stolen the very snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MACROMICROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the star of solitude Last Line: The sea-nymphs wander and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: METEMPSYCHOSIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She fanned my life out with her soft little sighs Last Line: Yonder's my way now. Give place, if you please. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MISANTHROPOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day's last light is dying out Last Line: God succeeds at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MYSTERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was one of mystery Last Line: A song too sad for rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night's in november: the winds are at strife Last Line: To my twenty-fourth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: SMALL PEOPLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm moon was up in the sky Last Line: A man, -- to insult and to shoot! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CANTICLE OF LOVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once heard an angel, by night, in the sky Last Line: But there's one will not listen, and that one I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CASTLE OF KING MACBETH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the castle of king macbeth Last Line: Whom no one knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE FUGITIVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no quiet left in life Last Line: And drove her wild across the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gray sand-hills, o'er the cold sea-shore; where, dumbly peering Last Line: Teach me unspoken, steadfast endurance; -- the silence of will! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; North Sea; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, whom you might see Last Line: O, yet we might........Good by! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Peddlers & Peddling; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there? Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not blame thee, that my life Last Line: Have nothing left to dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Hope; Netherlands; Travel; Optimism; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that never more in this world's shade Last Line: Kind offices to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PRAYER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My saviour, dare I come to thee Last Line: Lord! There is nothing hid from thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Palingensis Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PSALM OF CONFESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full soon doth sorrow make her covenant Last Line: Breaks, breaking from afar through a night shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Confessions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EPILOGUE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change without term, and strife without result Last Line: Thy tale is true, however weakly worded. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: THE SOUL'S SCIENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can history prove the truth which hath Last Line: Or vex me not with learned dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips Last Line: And white death watching over red-lipped love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul lives on. What lives on with the soul? Last Line: A little while of what was once so sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 3, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nurse of an ailing world, beloved night! Last Line: Of suns that set not on eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WATERSHED; LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN MUNICH AND VERONA, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black mountains pricked with pointed pine Last Line: I flowed to italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WAY TO TRAVEL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people travel in their autos Last Line: Of course it is the pocketbook! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WEST, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We followed them into the west Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WESTERN JOURNALIST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a wonderful town,' said the newspaper Last Line: "nor climate a career." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Newspapers; Television - Interviewing; Travel; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists; Journeys; Trips THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: I met him on the lachlan side Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo! Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE WINTER TRAVELER, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help thee, traveler, on thy journey far Last Line: His lonely bark through the tempestuous tide. Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Journeys; Trips THE WONDER-SPRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, there's joy in the spume and the wonder-spray Last Line: To the land that the gods endow. Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It burns in the void Last Line: Upheld by stillness. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Variant Title(s): The Dresser Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off Last Line: "please write, ""I know." Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THIS LITTLE WORLD, by HOMER HIGH CALHOUN Poem Text First Line: We rode a tram, in london Last Line: As you've of course -- inferred! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips THOUGHT DREAMS, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Constant waves of beauty come Last Line: And exalt the heart of man. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack Last Line: Ship to the editor, marked c. O. D. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips THREE A.M., IN WINTER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I went to zuni Last Line: I touch sparks, I fly. Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long upon her throne Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone! Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TILL DAWN, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: I walked through a waste with a deep pervading drear Last Line: And sweep of light with thrilling hope and day. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium Last Line: My heart at that location is present. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs Last Line: Exist the vitals of me. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was Last Line: There. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How smiled the land of france Last Line: Gladness in heaven! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO A TRAVELLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: After many a dusty mile Last Line: It is pan that counsels you Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile; Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips TO A WELSH MYSTIC, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes inspire: they draw their clear conviction Last Line: As I have seen him at your clear windows. Subject(s): Mysticism; Soul; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since long ago, a child at home Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips TO ARCADY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, singer, of the way Last Line: "love's at home in arcady!" Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BUS NO. 12, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bus no. 12 / take my nostalgia Last Line: My lover! Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Bus Terminals; Markets; Travel; Supermarkets; Journeys; Trips TO CHARLES DICKENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go then to italy; but mind Last Line: With little nelly nestling there. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips TO DR. MOORE, IN ANSWER TO POETICAL EPISTLE BY HIM IN WALES, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While in long exile far from you I roam Last Line: And strives to utter what it feels, in vain. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Moore, Dr. John (1729-1802); Travel; Journeys; Trips TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To go to lvov. Which station Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Travel; Lviv, Ukraine; Lemberg, Austria; Journeys; Trips TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE), by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too have travelled in the unknown land Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HENRIETTA, ON HER DEPARTURE FOR CALAIS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When little people go abroad, wherever they may roam Last Line: "is cat instead of rabbit, you must answer, ""tant mi-eux!" Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HIS DEAR FRIEND MR. JOHN EMELY, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have other nations got that tempting art? Last Line: And to thee my dejected life confine. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HIS MISTRESS UPON GOING TO TRAVEL, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, do not now delay me Last Line: Which restrained, a heart is broken. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO JERICHO AND BACK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time I a visit had paid Last Line: May loving wishes soon summon you back!' Subject(s): Guests; Jericho; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty! Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver ship, my king - that was her name Last Line: Honolulu, feb. 3, 1889. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MY LITTLE SON, by RALPH CHAPLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot lose the thought of you Last Line: With you so far away. Subject(s): Longing; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO MYRTILLA OF NEW YORK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rockies, I own, are a beautiful sight Last Line: There's nothing like you in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips TO ONE LONG ABSENT, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When the bridegroom comes with a surging / sound Last Line: I run and catch hands with you? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO PRINCESS KAIULANI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from her land to mine she goes Last Line: There alone. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN & ELIZABETH TREVELYAN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When one in java and cathay Last Line: Had I not journeyed at your side. Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, ON THE MASSACRE AT MILAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saint, beyond all in glory who surround Last Line: God will with wrath, look down. Subject(s): Borromeo, Saint Carlo (1538-1584); Milan, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO TESTOSTERONE, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You took me to the spanish steps Subject(s): Testosterone; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall Subject(s): Middle West; Travel; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Journeys; Trips TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem! Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips TOLD BY 'THE NOTED TRAVELLER', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coming, clean from the maryland-end Last Line: The old black hide with its heart of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Ohio; Travel; Journeys; Trips TOMORROW, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow we'll see the lightbulb in schenectady Subject(s): Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips TOMORROW, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your best friend is gone Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, where, or how, it matters not a damn Last Line: Poor tin jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O SEA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, with white lines of foam caught by the winter sun Last Line: That listen let your strange vocabulary continue. Subject(s): Old Age; Travel; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land Last Line: Have! Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-ocean, night Last Line: Light sways slowly. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FROM TURIN TO PARIS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tireless, hour after hour, over mountain plains and rivers Last Line: And the glitter and the roar already, and the rush of the life of paris. Subject(s): Paris, France; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands of years Last Line: "and placed them here—to last as long as heaven." Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things come to an end; / small calves in arkansas Last Line: No, they go on forever. Subject(s): Arkansas; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TRAINS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's fun to watch the trains go by Last Line: And see the smoke curls die away. Subject(s): Children; September; Travel; Childhood; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL, by BOYCE HOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chariots of brass Last Line: Boyce house Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL, by MARGARET MARY LEE Poem Text First Line: I never sailed the southern seas Last Line: That spanned eternity. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to rise and go Last Line: Of the old egyptian boys. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 10 Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because everything still bears Last Line: Of green. Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL PAPERS, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By boat to seurasaari where Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVEL SONG, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mad the torrent foams below us Last Line: And the gentle breezes blow. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELED, by LUCY LOUISE HATCHER Poem Text First Line: I've seen the blue of italian skies Last Line: Though I've remained at home. Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELER'S CURSE AFTER MISDIRECTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "may they stumble, stage by stage" Last Line: "now rib, now thigh, now arm, now shin, / but always, without fail, the neck" Subject(s): Curses;hate;travel; Journeys;trips TRAVELING ALONE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the hotel coffee shop that morning Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips TRAVELING LIGHT, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only leaving you Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Children; Travel; Childhood; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLER'S DUTY, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: Come day, go day Last Line: But will not teach us how to do it! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLER'S JOY, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: In greybeard blossoms over the brake Last Line: Yea, such things are traveller's joy. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLERS, by PERCY ADDLESHAW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall lodge at the sign of the grave Last Line: For perhaps it's a comfortless inn, my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hemingway, Percy Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If e'er our minds be ill at ease Last Line: To find us out in every place. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELLING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the spot - how mildly does the sun Last Line: That my heart melts in me to think of it. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELOGUE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Never have I journeyed Last Line: Realm, the sky. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips TRAVELOGUE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But no screen would show Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you could hear a town grow, to wonder about other, distant objects Last Line: By thinking the thinking heart so smokeable Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRAVELS WE TOOK IN OUR TIME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Place become enough and too much Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TREEHOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose kite was this? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The english girl is being sick in the bushes Last Line: That there always be other hills. Subject(s): Thailand; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips TRIP HOP, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll pack my toothbrush Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TWO PATHS, by MRS. EDGAR A. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sun sank down the western sky Last Line: But I was not afraid. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips TWO TRAVELERS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two travelers, meeting by the way Last Line: And made a comfortable end. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TWO TREES IN KATHMANDU, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, in that garden eastward Last Line: East of wherever the gate closed on eden. Subject(s): Cows; Eden; Travel; Journeys; Trips ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When ululani went to feed Last Line: Will shine for ululani. Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips UP AT A VILLA - DOWN IN THE CITY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I but plenty of money, enough and to spare Last Line: Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life! Subject(s): Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips UPON FIRST SEEING NEW MEXICO MESAS AFTER A TRIP ABROAD, by GEORGE ST. CLAIR Poem Text First Line: Much beauty have I seen these summer days Last Line: My heart reserves its loyalty for you. Subject(s): New Mexico; Travel; Journeys; Trips UPON THIS PASSAGE IN THE SCALIGERIANA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you with high-dutch heeren dine Last Line: They always talk, who never think. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest! Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips VALID, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Having a pasaporte, how much more valid Last Line: Tackle the razor wire! Subject(s): Passports; Travel; Journeys; Trips VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week Last Line: The goldenrod and asters. Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips VERSES WRITTEN IN THE CHIOSK OF THE BRITISH PALACE, AT PERA, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, great god! Said I, a little farm Last Line: Who dare have virtue in a vicious age. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel; Turkey; Istambul; Byzantium; Journeys; Trips VIA LONGA, by PATRICK MCDONOUGH Poem Text First Line: It's far I must be going Last Line: But that I find the way. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips VISIT OF HOPE TO SYDNEY COVE, NEAR BOTANY BAY, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Text First Line: Where sydney cove her lucid bosom swells Last Line: And peace, and art, and labour joined her train. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips VISITING, by ANNA PATTEN LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Tis fine to go a - visiting Last Line: And take the long road home. Subject(s): Guests; Homesickness; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips VOLAPUK, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I can speak Last Line: Volapuk. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was. Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism VOYAGER, by FRANK O'HARA (20TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: He had returned from a far land; once more Last Line: "of fire and snow"" . . . The uncle told a tale." Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips VOYAGERS, by WILLIAM E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was part of the lore of a sea-coast town Last Line: Ay, wearied with questing for the vanished isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Faust, Henri Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WANDERLIED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, west of all the westward roads that woo ye to their winding Last Line: It's there I'd lay me down at last and take my rest. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WARING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's become of waring Last Line: In vishnu-land what avatar? Subject(s): Domett, Alfred (1811-1887); Travel; Trieste; Journeys; Trips WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: I think if I should die Last Line: Once more to washington. Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips WELCOME TO WINTERDYNE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francie and willie, welcome to you Last Line: Now it is welcome to winterdyne! Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips WEST BY NORTH AGAIN, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've drunk our wine, we've kissed our girls, and funds are sinking low Last Line: Or, if she jilts you, may you get a better in her place. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Travel; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips WEST SHORE ELERVASHUN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: We held elecshun in our town Last Line: Who haz the rite uv way? Subject(s): Engineering & Engineers; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips WESTPORT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the hilltop we could overlook Last Line: Of wind through the roots of its clinging flowers. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON Poem Text First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan! Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips WEYLA'S SONG, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art orplede, my land Last Line: Kings, thy worshipers and watchers mild. Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Home; Praise; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We read the same books as children - kipling Last Line: Line, gathering my way before the salty wind. Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh. Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WHAT'S HERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Idaho potatoes have made it to honolulu Last Line: I'll go soon. And, don't remember me. Subject(s): Honolulu; Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air Last Line: But not our english hills!' Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WHERE NEXT?, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going on a journey -- oh, just a little journey Last Line: Which, bye and bye, will take me pretty far! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WHEREVER WE TRAVEL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WHITE EYES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friends & relatives Last Line: & everybody was watching. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips WHOM DO YOU VISUALIZE AS YOUR READER?, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humanities 5 section man Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WHY DID YOU DEPART AT DUSK?, by CLARISSA M. BAILEY Poem Text First Line: On your last journey, why did you set out at dusk? Last Line: Of earth? -- for, unafraid, at dusk you went away. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; Travel; Sunrise; Journeys; Trips WHY?, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why? Friends ask. Why there? Why not Last Line: Around the why? The shrug of friends. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait. Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came like a slipknot his car Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whitheraways! - that's what I'll have to call Last Line: The crying -- 'twill be easier for them to! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WONDERFUL PLACES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I am haunted by wonderful places Last Line: And not by human faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Colorado (river); Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips WRITING FOR MONEY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money Last Line: "that’s why I’m writing this poem, Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Travel; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, in the month of dark december Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blest would be ierne's isle Last Line: Wert thou as good as great. Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips YELLOWSTONE PARK-THE SECOND PARADISE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In ages past when art was young Last Line: Within the walls of yellowstone. Subject(s): Travel; Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the mane Last Line: Across the worlds. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips YOUR PICNICS, by FLORENCE WENNER Poem Text Last Line: You took fried chicken every time! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips |
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