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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "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


(ON NOT) MEETING DAVID AT THE BEACH, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silky-white, the sand I brush from my ankles sprays
Last Line: Do we miss them, the dead? They go with us everywhere
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


1-JAN-99, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything is still %possible. Each
Last Line: To the time your feet got up to leave
Subject(s): Memory; Travel


1937 FORD CONVERTIBLE, by TOM MCKEOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rusted and without tires
Subject(s): Travel


1959, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year I was born my mother ate nothing but oranges
Last Line: He proclaims may she peel the skin from this schizophrenic age
Subject(s): Continents; Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Family Life; Love - Cultural Differences; Travel


2E2. TRANSATLANTIC CROSSING. THIRD DAY., by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Panel of gray silk. Liquefied ashes. Dingy percale tugged over
Last Line: Well. I'd go home if I knew where to get off
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Sea; Travel


54045, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The turning dynamo moves its fiery members
Last Line: In truth I didn't have one friend
Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Travel; Trolley Cars


7, by RAUL ZURITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chile's distant and it's a lie
Last Line: And even if nothing exists, my eyes will see you
Subject(s): Chile; Travel


7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As by the streams of babylon
Last Line: And 'gainst the stones dash out their brains!
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Travel


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 GOOD DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A certain gentleman, whose yellow cheek
Last Line: "how! -- why you'll see blue pillars at the door."
Subject(s): Sickness; Travel Directions; Illness


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A PLAIN DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In london once I lost my way
Last Line: And all round the square.
Subject(s): London; Travel Directions


A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Until tonight they were separate specialties
Subject(s): Air Travel; Theology


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis         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


A'VITO, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, as I move
Last Line: Why do the trees conceal %their splendor?
Subject(s): Cities; Moving And Movers; Travel


A.K.A. MATA HARI, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: She suggested we meet for lunch the next day at cafe americaine
Last Line: Brow. 'a kiss,' she said, bestowing one, and was off
Subject(s): Hotels; Restaurants; Reunions; Travel


ABANDONED, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladys, where did you go?
Last Line: To recall you to your creation
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ABOARD, by AMY DRYANSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say home's where the heart is, but what if it's only a place
Last Line: How many leaks can one boat spring?
Subject(s): Home; Life; Travel


ABORIGINE, by HUGO WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is only beautiful
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Travel


ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought
Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales


ABOUT TO FLY AWAY, by YMITRI JAYASUNDERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My back is jammed on the door
Last Line: You couldn't navigate, the boat turning and turning, %the oars crushing the flowers
Subject(s): Boats; Fathers; Travel


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


ABSENCE (2), by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lamplight lies in a ring
Subject(s): Travel


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


ADDRESS TO MY MALAY KREES, by JOHN LEYDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the arm I well could pursued
Last Line: And I will wear thee next my heart, %and many a life-blood owe thee still
Subject(s): Malaysia; Travel


ADJUSTMENT OF FEVER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the images of saints hanged
Last Line: And the visit begins, to help me to live right
Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Parents; Travel


ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ADVENTURES OF MR LEAR & THE POLLY (& THE) PUSSEYBITE ON THEIR WAY., by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr lear goes out a walking with a polly & the pusseybite
Last Line: A deep hole & are never seen or distinguished or heard of never more %afterwards
Subject(s): Boats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Sea; Travel


ADVICE TO TRAVELERS, by WALKER GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A burro once, sent by express
Subject(s): Travel


AECCLESIAE ET REIPUB, by WILLIAM STRACHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild as they are, accept them, so were we
Last Line: No better work can state - or church-man do
Subject(s): Anglican Church; Travel; Virginia (state)


AERIAL VIEW, by ALEXANDRA GRILIKHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The island spreads itself out
Last Line: In the sun of late afternoon, fog at night
Subject(s): Air Travel; Islands


AEROGRAM PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sailed by africa, back home [or, pyramids]
Last Line: You're good with maps. Find me [or, what a holiday. I'm a globe]
Subject(s): Africa; Geography; Maps; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


AEROGRAMMES, by RUSSELL CHARLES LEONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Par avion via airmail
Last Line: Of the next %immutable %aerogramme
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; China; Cities; Travel


AFFAIR, by LISA GORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love, you bore gifts of brown eyes and eager hands
Last Line: And I, like every traveller, brought too much
Subject(s): Love; Travel


AFRICA, by JAMES RUSSELL GRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Africa. Skull with a golden chin
Last Line: Doe eyes
Subject(s): Africa; Travel


AFRICA VERDE, by MYRONN HARDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After your wedding
Last Line: You smell of musk. Mother's voice -- hollow -- old %angola is so far away
Subject(s): Love; Travel


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 A TRAIN JOURNEY, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My eyes are full of rivers and trees tonight
Last Line: Now I am almost earth and almost whole
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


AFTER FLIRTING WITH KNOWLEDGE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As I see no cause for growing %indiscriminately glum
Subject(s): Travel


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


AGAIN, VIETNAM, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the stubble of a frosted beanfield
Last Line: Better left to dark and moon; the things I saw
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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


AIR TRAVEL IN ARABIA, by CHARLES+(2) JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then petra flashed by in a wink
Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabia


AIRBORNE, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the racetrack parking lot, just a few spaces down from 'the tent
Last Line: Or the whistles or the screaming engines
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Air Travel; Balloons; Tourists


AIRPLANE IN STORMY PASS, by CORNELIA DODDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind is tearing through the pass tonight
Last Line: The guiding light of christ will never fail.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Faith; Belief; Creed


AIRPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Palace of unreality, where the place
Subject(s): Air Travel


AIRPORT, EVENING, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The looms of twilight weave across the west
Last Line: We find it hard to travel roads of clay!
Subject(s): Air Travel


ALBANY BUS STATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink
Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows
Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel


ALL THAT WE NEED, 4 A.M., by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train threads a needle through the night
Last Line: Gives way, and lovers sigh, turn over, %too full of light to sleep
Subject(s): Cape Town, South Africa; Travel


ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ALTHOUGH SHE RARELY TRAVELED FARTHER THAN TOWN, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old woman is naming places
Last Line: As though she has been there often %she has known it all of her life
Subject(s): Aging; Names; Travel


ALTIPLANO, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the messenger, spurred ahead
Last Line: One day you will never escape
Subject(s): Messengers; Poetry And Poets; Riddles; Travel


AMBER IS FOR CAUTION, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eyes of pigeons shine as they fly
Last Line: Fuel is low
Subject(s): Civilization; Explorers; Roads; Travel


AMBERGRIS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in the place where ambergris collects
Last Line: Let you take everything off here. To let you make a thesaurus
Subject(s): Guests; Temples; Travel


AMERICA, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: America, I've traveled your roads and the spark-hurling ghost
Last Line: Like the stars of the milky way that drone as they pass %each other
Subject(s): History; Travel; United States


AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love every stock and stone
Last Line: Break the sword: the iron strike %to plough-shares, share and share alike!
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel


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


AMSTERDAM, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You two drink beer on a bench next to a gracht
Last Line: Int he water of the canals
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Boats; Love; Travel


AMTRAK, by ELLIOT FRIED    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chiny coach squeaks and crawls over arid
Subject(s): Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full 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 Analysis             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 LETTER TO VOYAGER II, by JOHN UPDIKE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear voyager: / this is to thank you for
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


ANABASIS: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then we poised, in time's fullness brought
Last Line: Blessed, among the many mansions
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought; Travel


ANATOMY LESSON, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are sitting in bed, my legs on your lap
Last Line: Nor I yet touched down upon from %my high expectations
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cry to you papa who
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; India; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ANCESTOR, ANCESTOR, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cry to you papa who
Last Line: But came in spurt in me
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; India; Travel


ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME, SELS., by GEORGE KEATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What, though oblivion in her sable shroud
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Travel


AND FORGETFUL OF EUROPE, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Think now about all the things which made up that place
Subject(s): Travel; Yugoslavia


AND PIGS MAY FLY, by PARTRIDGE BOSWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm boarding my flight home from the heartland
Last Line: Door opens, whips out a playboy and begins reading
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Travel


ANDES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: As winds along, in snowy marble bare
Last Line: A wandering river, like a silent tear
Subject(s): Heroism; Peru; Travel


ANDES: 4-9 INCLUSIVE, by KERSTIN THOREK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains rise higher than the castle of the condors
Last Line: Gravely the two men turn around
Subject(s): Explorers; Incas; Mountains; Peru; Travel


ANGEL DEL TEMBLOR, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fallen bronze head, your welds apart
Last Line: Teresa almost skips. She is so %happy just holding angelita's hand
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


ANGELS FLYING YOU HOME, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I read you a poem
Last Line: Bras markets long gone green %in the industrial rain, wait
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


ANGELUS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not far from paris, in fair fontainebleau
Subject(s): Travel


ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ANOTHER TRIP, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already in the fields of jaen
Last Line: With myself, traveling alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Railroads; Spain; Travel


ANTARCTIC MUSE, by THOMAS PERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is now my brave boys we are clear of the sea
Last Line: Blessed be unto them so long as they shall live %and that is the wish to them I do give
Subject(s): Antarctica; Explorers; Travel


ANTHROPOLOGY: CRICKET AT KANO, by STEWART BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cerulean and jet, the tuareg
Last Line: Centuries old, our rootlessness %a fragile bond that will not bear embrace
Subject(s): Cricket (game); Nigeria; Sports; Travel


ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon
Last Line: As the light behind the stars.
Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


APPLE, by NAN FRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the center, a dark star
Subject(s): Travel


APPLE, by BRUCE GUERNSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So this is the fruit that made us all human.
Last Line: In the air an apple %rusts
Subject(s): Travel


APPLE TREES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I arrive in arles
Last Line: Like yearning and trembling for light
Subject(s): France; Love; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Romance; Travel


APPRECIATING OREGON, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To appreciate what oregon has, and is
Last Line: Looming like cities in the water
Subject(s): Oregon; Poetry And Poets; Travel; United States


ARABIC SCRIPT, by ANTHONY THWAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a spider through ink, someone says, mocking: see it
Subject(s): Travel


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


ARF, SAID SANDY, by CHARLES B. STETLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roger is a friend of mine, it was his idea
Subject(s): Travel


ARLES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have arrived in arles
Last Line: Because we are a single goblet of silent, heavy wine
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Love; Travel


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


ARRIVING IN METZ ON DECEMBER 6, 1944 AFTER TWO DAYS TRAVELING IN A ..., by MELINDA THOMSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The arty flew overhead. Whistling bullets scorched the sky
Last Line: The back door. I rolled over and drew up my palms for a pillow
Subject(s): Travel


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Last Line: Waiting for reinvigoration
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel


ART WORK, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter is drawing a picture
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Travel


AS THE CENTER OF THINGS, by KEN FONTENOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was with gary on the champs elysees
Last Line: And to know how life picks up from there
Subject(s): Life; Travel


ASCENDANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Journey up the faraway river where ferns bend
Last Line: Fleshy finned bodies, the filament of gills
Subject(s): Soul; Spiritual Life; Travel


ASTRAL LOGIC, by JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not believe
Last Line: Irresistible, these many-flighted stairs
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Stars


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious
Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips


AT EPIDAURUS, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The islands which whisper to the ambitious
Last Line: All causes end with the great because
Subject(s): Greece; Travel


AT FANO, by JAMES RENNELL RODD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearly honoured, great dead poet, still as living
Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Fano, Italy; Travel


AT HIS BODEGA, LEO SELLS EVERYTHING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His own hands fall limp at his sides, then plunge deep into his pockets
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


AT LEAST THAT ABANDON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I watch at the long window
Subject(s): Air Travel


AT LEAST THAT ABANDON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I watch at the long window
Last Line: Of the end of a weekend
Subject(s): Flight; Love; Travel


AT REEVEY'S PRAIRIE, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black-winged grasshoppers crackle up
Last Line: For a moment, for a moment stopping
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Prairies; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 ENTRANCE TO AN UNDERGROUND, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stairs of glass on the solar platform
Last Line: In the open they wave torn flags
Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Immigrants; Travel


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 INTERSECTION, by ANDREA HENY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At seven, the all-night greyhound reaches the city
Last Line: Would it surprise you if she broke out laughing?
Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Traffic; Travel


AT THE ROAD'S EDGE, by DON WELCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the road's edge the snowbirds
Last Line: What was it, I asked, I had come for?
Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Travel


AT THE ROOF-TOP BAR, HOTEL ATHENA 1981, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An oil-lamp moon is flickering, back-lit through
Last Line: That glimmering script of stars so far away %and untranslatable
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Travel


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 THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the terminal: the light
Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Language; Words; Vocabulary


AT THE SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, by YVOR WINTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the terminal: the light
Last Line: In light, and nothing else, awake
Subject(s): Air Travel; Language


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


ATOPOS: WITHOUT PLACE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kitchen pans tumble, %the medicine cabinet shakes
Last Line: The story will unfold, translate as yours, translate to mine
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Newspapers; Travel


AU PAIR, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing she'd noticed, as they sat her down for lunch
Last Line: Where she had no boyfriend yet. But she was hoping
Subject(s): France; Travel


AUDITION, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Porfirio drove mami and me
Last Line: Abruptly, her singing stopped
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


AUGUST, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In waves of heat
Subject(s): Travel


AUSTIN, TX, by JACK DONAHUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the juncture of congress and colorado
Last Line: In my ageless, tearing eyes
Subject(s): Austin, Texas; Hospitality; Tourists; Travel


AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect
Last Line: So much on this assumption. Now it's failed
Subject(s): Air Travel


AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT AN AIR-STATION, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delay, well, travellers must expect
Last Line: Begins to ebb outside, by fear; I set %so much on this assumption. Now it's failed
Subject(s): Air Travel


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


BAG, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After each of a dozen trips to the former eastern
Last Line: Each of us reach in and graps what it contained
Subject(s): Travel


BALANCE, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched the arctic landscape from above
Subject(s): Air Travel; Landscape


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 Analysis             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


BALLAD OF THE DOGS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When ibn batutta, arabian traveller
Last Line: And the dogs go on, with sure and swishing steps, %deeper into the darkness
Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Dogs; Travel


BALLAD ON THE PATHS IN VASTMANLAND, by LARS GUSTAFSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the visible script of small roads
Last Line: And know all that we wanted to know
Subject(s): Brooks; Hunting; Roads; Travel


BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


BALLOONISTS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: See the tall man there in the top hat
Last Line: And the cheering imperceptibly subsides
Subject(s): Air; Balloons; Tourists; Travel


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


BAMBOO, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six years ago it was small
Last Line: From our own soft hearts
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


BANAL EL DORADO, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The same pain as always
Last Line: Sister, we have arrived at this boulevard %in los angeles to stay
Subject(s): Los Angeles; Memory; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Last Line: Of uneatable soft green
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees


BAROQUE, by PAM BRIDGEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another late night call, long distance
Last Line: The byzantine corridors of old harems
Subject(s): Relationships; Travel


BASHO IV, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet is a mill that turns the landscape to words
Last Line: I too am tempted by the wind that allows the clouds to drift
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Poetry Readings; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace
Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel


BEARHUG, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


BEARHUG, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
Last Line: Like that, before I came
Subject(s): Travel


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


BED AND BREAKFAST, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We drive on, hoping for fair weather
Last Line: With its steady thread of flame
Subject(s): Travel; Hotels


BEFORE GOOD-BYE, by P. WOLNY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


BEGGARS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are leper ladies who gossip and laugh
Last Line: Against the post office wall and a little to the right %longer than anyone can remember
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Travel


BEGINNING AGAIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
Last Line: The grasses bending, the car pointing %towards the horizon I'll call home
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BEHAVIOUR OF FISH IN AN EGYPTIAN TEA GARDEN, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a white stone draws down the fish
Last Line: And she sits alone at the table, a white stone %useless except to a collector, a rich man
Subject(s): Travel


BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests
Last Line: Will see the cities beneath them glittering like the gold of the goths
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Travel


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


BETWEEN DOMINICA AND ECUADOR, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The earphoned guardians click off %the dominican republic
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BETWEEN THE TRAVELLER AND THE SETTING SUN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sparkled to the zun a-zetten
Subject(s): Travel


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


BIG VILLAGE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nome's front street, the manhattan
Last Line: A face blank and cold %as the moon at minus ten
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Villages


BIG-LITTLE TOWN, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next time you ride to the airport
Last Line: So much, learned so much, done %so much for others? Rejoice.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Commuters; Nome, Alaska; Towns; Travel


BILINGUAL SESTINA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Some things I have to say aren't getting said
Last Line: Heart beating, beating inside what I say en ingles
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Literary Form; Travel; Women


BIRD WATCHER, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enthused by flickers and coots
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Travel


BIRDS OF PASSAGE: PRELUDE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 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


BITTER COLD, by CAO CAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Northward we climbed the tai-hang range
Last Line: Sad is that poem 'eastern mountains': %it makes my heart always grieve
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Travel


BLACK HOLES, by JOSEPH AWAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are places dark
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


BLACK SNAKE; 11, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wake up
Last Line: Oh, do not make noise
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


BLACK SNAKE; 15, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sky very blue
Last Line: A lone enormous bird crosses the pregnant horizon
Subject(s): Solitude; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


BLACK SNAKE; 2, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Begins here, the ciphered forest
Last Line: Tonight I will sleep with queen luzia's daughter
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Travel


BLACK SNAKE; 6, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pass the swamp borders
Last Line: Undid undeciphered writings
Subject(s): Forests; Plants; Travel; Trees; Wanderers And Wandering


BLEAK SEASON WAS IT, TURBULENT AND BLEAK, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To question us, “whence come ye? To what end?”
Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Adversity


BLESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It says in the science section
Last Line: Of light - enough to save the world
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


BLOOD, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the market a bull's skinned head
Last Line: Hurry across the room
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


BLUE FLAME, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another day forcing me into place
Last Line: And who. And never once asked why
Subject(s): Monuments; Tourists; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


BOCA'S MAYOR CALLS MIKE OVER, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We've signed out in his death notebook in unerasable ink!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


BODY POEMS: ADAM'S APPLE, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never said %a word
Last Line: He just nodded
Subject(s): Travel


BODY SONG, VIETNAM, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bodies should have been marked
Last Line: I had a lover who died
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


BOETHIUS IN DOWNSTATE, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's impossible to say why he keeps coming back
Last Line: To be gathered, of the fruit that will fall
Subject(s): Travel


BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along
Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel


BOLERO 9, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


BOOKMAKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the pierpont morgan I go up and down
Last Line: And the handing down to the generations to come %the world's body loved by our passionate arts
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


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


BOUCHERON, SHALIMAR, MORE SHOES, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friday I get paid checks for debt
Last Line: Wedding bouquets planted this future
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Travel


BOY TRAVELLER IN SNOW, by KATHLEEN NICASTRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long path under the rose sky
Last Line: The sifting snows of reason
Subject(s): Boys; Snow; Travel; Winter


BRAIN, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flashlight
Subject(s): Travel


BREATHERS, ST. MARK'S LIGHTHOUSE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stand at the point of the oyster bar
Last Line: Air. Today, together, we are so old, %the world begins again
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


BREATHLESS, by WILFRED NOYCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heart aches, lungs pant dry air
Last Line: Dry air %sorry, scant
Subject(s): Everest, Mount; Mountain Climbing; Travel


BRIDE'S SONG, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the white house, the bride's house
Subject(s): Travel


BRIDGE AT ARTA, by KATHRYN STARBUCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its arch at my back, the heat
Last Line: For sale. Fifty cents a pair
Subject(s): Arcadians; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel


BRIEF HISTORY OF BORDER CROSSINGS, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Inevitable that it should happen
Last Line: I am, or am willing to become
Subject(s): Boundaries; Travel


BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, by JOHN WAIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the gay cliff of the nineteenth century
Last Line: Breathe the ozone older than the name of commerce: %be the citizens of the true survival!
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Travel


BROOKLYNESE CAPITOL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The asia of new england
Last Line: The schnitzel of the alps %the smell way
Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


BROOM, THE SHOVEL, THE POKER, AND THE TONGS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: There's an end of my song!
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Tongs; Travel


BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


BRUISES, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paint samples
Subject(s): Travel


BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering the cold streets tangled like old strings,
Last Line: To warm the heartless city in his arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Travel


BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye who tread the narrow way
Last Line: Is god in human image %no nearer than kamakura?
Subject(s): Buddhism; God; Japan; Travel


BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full 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


BULLDOZER, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bulls by day %and dozes by night
Last Line: No, not the bulldozer
Subject(s): Environment; Travel


BURRO, by RICHARD FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Posing beside the huge rattlesnake head at the mexican pyramid are
Last Line: All my family are dead
Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Travel


BUS NORTH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw him looking, I held myself in
Last Line: And we are honoured you see to travel so far
Subject(s): Buses; Guests; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


BUSES LONG TO GO HOME, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of lualalambo, nkongsamba, and of calabar, %and female hippos sleeping under peppertrees
Subject(s): Buses; Roads; Travel


BUSINESS CLASS, by RICHARD COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flight attendants maneuver their way
Last Line: A life or a living. Tell me what it all %doesn't count
Subject(s): Air Travel


BUSINESS GIRLS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the geyser ventilators
Last Line: Trolley-bus and windy street!
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BUT OUTER SPACE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than populous
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel


BUT OUTER SPACE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stays more popular %than populous
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


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


BUZZ ALDRIN, by KIM ROBERTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soviets have done everything first
Last Line: Mine and armstrong's. Then apollo 12 landed
Subject(s): Aldrin, Buzz (edwin Eugene); Astronauts; Space And Space Travel


BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


CABALLOS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The painted caballos of the carneval
Last Line: Cheeks goodnight, and shut the door
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CABOOSE THOUGHTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


CALAMITIES: ANOTHER EDEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out beyond what we imagine
Last Line: And leave into the questing
Subject(s): Homeless; Travel


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


CALLE MIGUEL ANGEL, by SUEJIN SUH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stood %hands close to your side
Last Line: With the crowd %on the madrid metro
Subject(s): Language; Madrid, Spain; Tourists; Travel


CALLED IT SPACE, by GUSTAF SOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the opening and
Last Line: Landscapes of the all-surrounding isn't
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


CAMELS IN PERSIA, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the caravan routes go the camels tall
Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of
Subject(s): Travel


CANCIONEIRO: TO TRAVEL, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To travel! Leave countries behind
Last Line: The rest? Just earth and sky
Subject(s): Travel


CANDLES AT MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The body parts of 132 souls %are red flagged with baggage tickets
Last Line: I would know well what earth rushes to claim me
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how it is done
Last Line: Of the woods, left it there, and stayed
Subject(s): Automobiles; Roads; Travel


CAR RADIO, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An in-joke and the long days of faltering
Subject(s): Automobiles; Radios; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips


CAR TRIP, by RUSSELL SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother keeps the windows rolled up
Last Line: Where an outlaw or an orpahn %could hole up
Subject(s): Automobiles; Mothers; Travel


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


CARCASSONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How old I am! I'm eighty years!
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Travel


CARVER OF MASKS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He works the knife
Last Line: Pig, he thinks, and wipes his knife on his jeans
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CASA, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am walled and atop my walls
Last Line: Come to me in ribbons
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up
Last Line: If worthy of you to the world they'll come down from the uplands
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel


CATACOMBS, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Departed brothers, generous, brave
Subject(s): Catacombs; Travel


CATEDRAL, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Below the gold virgin, notes fade
Last Line: She feels them fill with light
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CATERPILLARS, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In crabapple trees white cocoons
Last Line: This time you have gone too far
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


CATHEDRAL OF MILAN, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With steps subdued, silence, and labour long
Subject(s): Churches; Travel


CATS OF CAMPAGNATICO, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since a harebrained devil has changed the world
Subject(s): Travel


CATULLUS XI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Furius and aurelius, bound to catullus
Last Line: Roots out in passing
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Pleasure; Travel


CERTAINLY THE DEER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a few places like this left
Last Line: Now clearly visible, now disappearing slowly into the swamp
Subject(s): Cold; Emotions; Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Travel


CESARE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sorry town after another passed
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


CESARE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sorry town after another passed
Last Line: What was to come? It was all there in the rain
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


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


CHANEL LIPSTICK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daddy always said this many
Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this
Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation


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


CHARLES BON CONSIDERS HEAVEN, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must admit, the bravura of fine music has never moved my blood
Last Line: We are to victory. Every face ash gray, blood gone. My brothers
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


CHARLES D'ORLEANS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles d'orleans goes into the rock
Last Line: And turquoise of course, not the legality %of barbarians. Listen: scythians are edible
Subject(s): History; Language; Rocky Mountain Range; Scythians; Travel


CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Purpose lost
Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CHARTRES, by JULIE SUK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I could be anywhere in the states
Last Line: Not these stones, the rapture, %rising for now out of our hands
Subject(s): Chartres, France; Travel


CHILD SINGING, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were we going? Destination always fades
Last Line: There was singing. We never %reached home
Subject(s): Children; Singing And Singers; Travel


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (COMPLETE), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been straying
Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Homosexuality; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Love; Poetry And Poets; Sea; Travel


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 2, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven! - but thou, alas
Last Line: And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloy'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Homesickness; Travel


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood in venice on the bridge of sighs
Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Travel; Italy


CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying
Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel


CHILES: A BIRTHDAY POEM, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lanterns, orange and veined
Last Line: I will be who I am
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CHINA, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dragon hatched a cockatrice
Last Line: With snail so well they make one piece %most wrecked and longest of all histories
Subject(s): China; Travel


CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco
Last Line: A second balloon appears, %empty
Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 EVE ON THE ROAD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Herkimer, canajoharie, gloversville, cooperstown
Last Line: Thinking nothing of the cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Cooperstown, New York; Fathers; Gloversville, New York; Travel


CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the cat within us
Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel


CHRISTMAS IN PENANG, by JOHN LEYDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear nona, christmas comes from far
Last Line: To guard thee ever gay and free, %beneath thy green banana tree
Subject(s): Malaysia; Travel


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


CIA, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The utility room has become a death
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


CINEMA OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


CITIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: San francisco ss
Last Line: New york p
Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel


CITY, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I set out through september, on the road to the splendor of
Last Line: Loved to place a diadem upon its head
Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Love; Travel


CITY IMAGE, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a pike's head
Last Line: When she ate of the grass %at the river's edge
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         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 LIMITS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west
Last Line: A switch with red eyes wipes its mouth with a sleeve
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.)


CITY OF 12,000 BRIDGES, SUZHOU, by DANEEN WARDROP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Who never thought to write to me
Subject(s): Absence; China; Cities; Travel


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


CLARIOL, THE YOUNGEST OF NANA'S GIRLS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The next meal and the next child she doesn't want
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


CLOSER YOU GET, by ANGELA SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: To leaving - the country
Last Line: I get from %gone
Subject(s): Travel; Women's Rights


CLOUD, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One late spring evening in bohemia
Subject(s): Travel


COCKPIT IN THE CLOUDS, by DICK DORRANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two thousand feet beneath our wheels
Last Line: Down there, we're just another noise
Subject(s): Air Travel


CODA, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At one of its sources the river
Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars
Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel


COLUMBUS, by JOAQUIN CASTELLANOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strove against the winds and waves of fate
Last Line: The mystical america of heaven!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


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


COMING BACK, by ANGELA BALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my second trip to oaxaca from puebla
Last Line: How each green is forgotten
Subject(s): Memory; Travel


COMING HOME FROM ABROAD, by DAVID HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is high and blue yet, as we drive
Subject(s): Travel


COMING IN AT KENNEDY, by EDMUND PENNANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are circling, circling
Last Line: Slamming concrete, we become one tapestry
Subject(s): Air Travel


COMING OF LIGHT, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even this late it happens
Last Line: Even this late the bones of the body shine %and tomorrow's dust flares into breath
Subject(s): Love; Travel


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


CONE INVESTIGATES, by BOB HEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dr. Cone herds a dozen or so of his clones down a dirt road deep
Last Line: Surprised sigh. Once again they have given him the wrong script
Subject(s): Forests; Travel


CONE TRAVELS, by BOB HEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dr. Cone is tied into the metal frame and lowered over the edge of
Last Line: Again and again from the alter to sit with the gods
Subject(s): Portraits; Travel


CONFLUENCE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: While last night %venus, mars, and jupiter
Last Line: Under this rare %historical sky
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


CONNECTING FLIGHT, by JOSHUA WEINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late to my gate, still
Last Line: Locked on leather handles %still moist from those hands...
Subject(s): Air Travel


CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You send me your poems
Last Line: If you will send me one of you
Subject(s): Travel


CONSPIRACY OF RIENZI, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a proud moment - ev'n to hear the words
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Travel


CONTINENTAL'S GAMING TABLES, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plush pullmans rumble through the gaps
Last Line: Unsteady compulsions and the drumming rails
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


CONTROLLED AND INTERMITTEN FALLING, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sailing my hoist 15 stories up
Last Line: Some lives becomes apparent. A definition: controlled and intermittent falling
Variant Title(s): Controlled And Intermittent Fallin
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Travel


CONVERSATIONAL ITALIAN, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems the only reason I have come to italy
Last Line: I have lost the key. %look! There's the runway!
Subject(s): Italy; Travel


CORINNA TO TANAGRA, FROM ATHENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle
Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War


COTTAGE AT CHIGASAKI, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That well you drew from is the coldest drink
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Travel


COUNTRY ROADS, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pale morning in june 4 am
Last Line: And skidded back again. %traveling over the great and luminous sahara lit by clouds
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Fields; Roads; Sahara Desert; Travel


COUPE DE VILLE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: You shut the trunk
Last Line: My wish to be far, %or to be close the way we never were. %the way we never will be
Subject(s): Brothers; Travel


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


CRAWLING OUT THE WINDOW, by TOM HENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When water starts to run winds come to the sky carrying parts of canada
Last Line: Watch the geese and are sure you can fly
Subject(s): Travel


CREELY CURSING IN CHURCH, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fuck, he said. %why not? Where I come from god damn it
Last Line: His strange mark on every beam %poured that week
Variant Title(s): Creeley Cursing In Churc
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


CRIES, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waking in my motel room
Last Line: That we could have kissed
Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Travel


CROSS-ROADS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain beat in our faces
Last Line: To what we each loved best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Rain; Travel Directions


CROSSING PATHS, by PAIGE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere in space, although we can't sight'm
Last Line: Meet et al., etc., and ad infinitum
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Time


CROSSING THE ATLANTIC BY PLANE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man-made wonder soared
Last Line: And which named the more awesome - %the waters, the clouds, or the plane?
Subject(s): Air Travel; Atlantic Ocean


CROSSROAD, by PIERRE REVERDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To stop before the sun
Last Line: Without a word to indicate which was the right way
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


CUANDO MORIMOS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hernan fell. He used not to be afraid
Last Line: Do business in its rooms
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


CUBAN JOURNAL: CANE, by JOEL SLOMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 21, mid-afternoon
Last Line: Trude. Everyone loved meg and robert
Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970)


CUBAN JOURNAL: GUAGUAS, by JOEL SLOMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 6, afternoon, at sea on way to isle of pines
Last Line: Again...Eva helping out wiping tables
Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970)


CUBAN JOURNAL: HAVANA TO SAINT JOHN, by JOEL SLOMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 23, back on luis arcos bergnes
Last Line: Still more people around %to rush and find
Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970)


CUBAN JOURNAL: LUIS ARCOS BERGNES, by JOEL SLOMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 13, 1970, at sea late at night
Last Line: At the camp, trude, carol, et al, tried cutting cane and chewed on some
Subject(s): Travel; Venceremos Brigade (cuba, 1970)


CURVE, by REG SANER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His 16-year-old torso
Last Line: With gimmicks, devices. Little ploys %for seeing nothing whatever
Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel


CUSTOMS, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small airport. A plane
Last Line: The grass growing under his feet
Subject(s): Air Travel


CUTOVER COUNTRY, by S. C. HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Southwest of town, where the montreal river rushes black and cold
Last Line: Of earth and darkness and death
Subject(s): Cities; Montreal, Canada; Travel


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


DALLAS, by JENNIFER FOOTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here she is in this tin box thing about to fly from dallas to reno. God
Last Line: He knows and she says nothing
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Dallas, Texas; Travel


DANDELION GATHERER, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bulging in pettociats in may she comes
Subject(s): Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


DAVID IN APRIL, by BETTY MAE BOOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's up early for breakfast
Subject(s): Travel


DAWN FLIGHT INTO PHILADELPHIA: FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, by KATHY COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep the maji out of it. Resist the easy image
Last Line: Resting like a child's hand on the eastern horizon
Subject(s): Christmas; Travel


DAWN IN ARGUA, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick of mere fame, and of rome's laureate leaf
Subject(s): Travel


DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First a monkey, then a man
Last Line: Just the way the world began
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First a monkey, then a man
Last Line: Just the way the world began
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


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 Analysis             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


DAY IN FRANCE, by DAVID HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sieurs et dames! And the door slams
Subject(s): Travel


DAYS IN PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sansevieria plants were vicious and hardy along the bricks %in front
Last Line: At three, we waited for the postman's cycle bell and had tea a %few times before the war
Subject(s): Guests; Punjab (asia); Travel


DE GUSTIBUS', by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When did the garden with its banked flowers
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DEATH'S BLUE-EYED GIRL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When did the garden with its banked flowers
Last Line: Empty sleeves and she was gone
Subject(s): Travel


DEBT, by GRACIELA REYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a sad debt that cannot be repaid
Last Line: Any personal items on the plane
Subject(s): Affliction; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel


DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates
Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebb and flow
Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel


DEEP IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS, by JOEL FRIEDERICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumnal moths rose
Last Line: A collection of raw thirsts
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroad Stations; Travel


DEGRINGOLADE, by MICHAEL HOFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The broken hydraulics squealing, or the mean
Last Line: Spanish moss cascading down the trees
Subject(s): Travel


DEIR EL BAHARI: TEMPLE OF HATSHEPSUT, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How did she come here, when it was new and sparkling
Subject(s): Travel


DELIRIUM TREMENS: TRAIN FROM GLASGOW TO EDINBURGH, by JENNIFER FOOTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister - the one who was an alcoholic - had a vision of angels: three
Last Line: There was nothing wrong with her being able to see right into his head
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


DELTA FLIGHT 659, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm writing this on a plane, sean penn,
Subject(s): Penn, Sean; Air Travel; Iraq War


DENALI, by VANDANA KHANNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the bus, I was always looking the wrong way
Last Line: Were goats, dahl sheep, were really just two curves of rock
Subject(s): Travel


DENMARK, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I left warnemunde and germany with a sense of little ease
Subject(s): Travel


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


DEPARTURE, by FRANK PETTUS STEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you go away
Subject(s): Travel


DEPARTURE FOR CYNTHERA, by GUILLERMO CARNERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today, as the sad ship prepares to sail
Subject(s): Travel


DEPARTURES, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many thousands of years ago it left (or tried to leave;
Last Line: You protest, squinting at your own face. - but it is
Subject(s): Air Travel; Dinosaurs; Fossils


DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaving lotion fresh
Last Line: Airport in the universe
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Air Travel; Southwest; Pacific States


DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A country that draws fifty foot of water
Subject(s): Travel


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


DESOLATE VALLEY, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far up among the forest-belted mountains
Subject(s): Travel


DESTINATIONS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


DETROIT OBSERVATORY, 1999, by JULIE ELLISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should we restore the observatory
Last Line: The museum is done. I practice saying, %listen. Come.
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Space And Space Travel


DEVELOPER'S LANDSCAPE: POLYWATER, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In class, we took notes on the polywater lecture
Last Line: Its sailors, like hair, into the mutant waves
Subject(s): Russia; Space And Space Travel


DIAL TONE, by FELIX POLLAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Implausible %that my lifting the receiver
Subject(s): Travel


DIET OF POLAND, A SATIRE, SELS., by DANIEL DEFOE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In northern climes where furious tempests blow
Subject(s): Travel


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


DIRECTIONS (1), by WILLIS FREDERICK OSTRANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Settting out upon the incomplete journey
Last Line: A leaf that I will recognize
Subject(s): Inconsistency; Travel


DIRECTIONS (2), by WILLIS FREDERICK OSTRANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stairs rooms mistakes birds-
Last Line: By the darkness %beneath the scarce gleam upon the breaking waves
Subject(s): Travel


DISCOURSE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ones I like best seem to be
Last Line: Across miles of fields and memories
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


DISCOVERIES OF BONES AND STONES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Certain bones are from other bones distinquished
Subject(s): Bones; Travel


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


DISCOVERY, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the urban sky the slow bass sound
Last Line: Once violence was real
Subject(s): Explorers; Hotels; Travel; United States


DISTANCE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've begun to acquire a taste
Last Line: One that I dwell on and now give back
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Cities; Travel


DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


DISTANCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just where that star above
Last Line: Beyond that star, beyond!
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Soul; Time; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


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


DITTY, by PARK CHAESAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shall I go abroad to a far-off land
Last Line: In danger of being cut short %any minute?
Subject(s): Travel


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


DIVINE BARRIER, by GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we admit that on a certain plain
Subject(s): Travel


DOG, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dog on the roof leans snarling
Last Line: The hairs rise on my arms. %I want the dog
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling
Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont


DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


DOORWAY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was young and almost ridiculous that year, riding the train
Last Line: Rain falls like tears and the corn grows tall as trees
Subject(s): Aztecs; Guests; Memory; Mexico; Travel


DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH TRAINS, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 THAT MOUNTAIN, MIKE AND I HIKE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where another country waits, %the one I came to discover
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


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


DOWN WIND, DOWN RIVER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh say can you breathe
Last Line: Down river, down wind; %I-131, plutonium, ruthenium
Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Physics; Space And Space Travel


DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


DREAMING IN THE SHANGHAI RESTAURANT, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I would like to be that elderly chinese gentlemen
Last Line: I guess that for him it is peace in his time. %it would be agreeable to be this chinese gentleman
Subject(s): Travel


DREAMS OF FLIGHT, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It started with the cardboard wings my brother built, wings with
Last Line: Studying the pure gliding principle
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Dreams; Flight


DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation


DRIVING DOWN FLORIDA, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stuckey's peanut brittle chipping our teeth
Last Line: From an odd ancient scroll
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Florida; Poetry And Poets; Travel


DRIVING INTO FAITH, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not more than two hours beyond faith, south dakota
Last Line: Signs, piggy-backed so they might as well be %one
Subject(s): Faith; God; Love; Travel


DROWNED SON, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You want the body to rise
Last Line: It is the sound of your life
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


DRUMMER HODGE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin
Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women


EARLY COSMOLOGY, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where am I when I first hear the high orbiting
Last Line: What a glimmering plate of dust it all might be
Subject(s): Metaphysics; Philosophy And Philosophers; Space And Space Travel; Stars


EARLY MORNING WEATHER, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain makes me conjure a lover
Last Line: Jubilant in wet edge light
Subject(s): Commuters; Love; Railroads; Romance; Travel


EARTH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Koper defines darkness. Mothballs of circumcision
Last Line: A fugue, and a cantilena are the same: utter bliss
Subject(s): Earth; Planets; Travel


EARTH IS A SATELLITE OF THE MOON, by LEONEL RUGAMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apollo 2 cost more than apollo 1
Last Line: Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the moon
Subject(s): Politics; Poverty; Space And Space Travel


EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh dear, / the plane is so small the baggage
Subject(s): Air Travel


EAST HAMPTON-BOSTON BY AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh dear, %the plane is so small the baggage
Last Line: Us like an afterbirth
Subject(s): Air Travel


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


ECLIPSE, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The government says that women
Last Line: Would whiten our eyes forever
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


EDGE LIGHT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rock cliffs of florence, storm light of beach and sky
Last Line: An arc of edge light, sheaf of memory, %cloud line disappearing
Subject(s): Absence; Aviation And Aviators; Oregon; Postage Stamps; Travel


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


EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful
Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel


EGYPTIAN DANCER, by TERENCE TILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Slowly, with intention to tempt, she sidles out
Last Line: A last groan of the drum, panting she drops %into the darkness of past love
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Egypt; Travel


EGYPTIAN TOMB, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pomp of egypt's elder day
Subject(s): Travel


EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Travel


EL CAFE, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stone arches frame the table where a man has joined melinda
Last Line: Melinda shows him the mask
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


EL GRITO DE DOLORES, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bus passes %I drink its sweet black air
Last Line: Wet lips. Get off the road
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


EL MERCADO, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the center of the mercado
Last Line: There is rope. No one was leaving after all
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


EL MILAGRO, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Adela sees the pig ascend to heaven
Last Line: She will never again eat pork
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


EL PROFESOR JUAN BAUTISA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And snips with a pair of scissors seven times two kids free!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ELECTRONS, by ROBERTA BALFOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swirl and toss their lives away
Last Line: Somewhere, some time?
Subject(s): Atoms; Earth; Science; Space & Space Travel; World; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


ELEGY, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thompson, least attractive character
Subject(s): Travel


ELEGY FOR MADRID, by CATHERINE RUFFING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carry a city of five million on my back: I'm learning
Last Line: My goodbyes before I left. I say them now, a few each day
Subject(s): Cities; Spain; Travel


ELEGY FOR RICHARD HUGO FROM GAINESVILLE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will not say there is anything good in this
Last Line: Leap high and backhand one going over. %for you friend, for you
Variant Title(s): Well Don
Subject(s): Baseball; Pennsylvania; Sports; Travel


ELEGY FOR SEVEN, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside your window, a world hardly more
Last Line: You can go anywhere but %home
Subject(s): Astronauts; Planets; Space And Space Travel; Stars; Universe


ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ELEVENS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun flatlining the horizon, the wind
Last Line: A bird took all the heart out of the air
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Travel


ELIJAH'S WAGON KNEW NO THILL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In feats inscrutable
Subject(s): Travel


ELLIS ISLAND, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drains in the middle of the stone floor
Last Line: Her back turned to ellis island
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


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


ELMORE JAMES STEPS OUT OF A STALLED CAR, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Careful not to curse the steaming pile of rust, himself
Last Line: What to say about the hour, and location of the nearest phone
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


ELSEWHERE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The delectable names of harsh places
Subject(s): Names; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


EMBARKING FOR CYTHERA, by GUILLERMO CARNERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that the sad ship is ready to sail
Subject(s): Travel


EMBARQUEMENT, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You must walk over the mud
Last Line: Great swelling of water will carry you
Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 33. LOVE KEEPS ALL THINGS IN ORDER, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does this vast machine with order move
Last Line: The glorious frame would drop about our ears.
Subject(s): Love; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


EMIGRANTS, by KJELL ESPMARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do we darken the night sky for you
Last Line: We're trying in the next galaxy
Subject(s): Automobiles; Continents; Exiles; Immigrants; Travel


EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No packing list, and no money
Last Line: Passport checkpoint, the lighted coast [or, and good evening from a lighted coast]
Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel


EMIGRES, by TED WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Visiting from britain, I take my ease
Last Line: Not to mention the droughts, the six-foot snows, %in the yard where nothing english ever grows
Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States


EMINENT DOMAIN, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house torn down now, a hole in the earth, with a snow fence thrown
Last Line: The day. It was like a glimpse of a face at a window
Subject(s): Houses; Roads; Travel


EMPIRE CLOCK, by BERNARD SPENCER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muted wood-wind is one noise of the traffic, and there is a second
Subject(s): Travel


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


ENCROACHMENTS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The madman son of our dear friend cynthia
Last Line: Thinks about coming over to our place
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Neighbors; Travel


ENGLISHMAN ON THE FRENCH STAGE, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I'm in france, for frenchmen's sake
Subject(s): Travel


ENTROPY DRAG, by BOB JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the last bus from hackensack
Last Line: With snoring %sour melody %and me
Subject(s): Buses; Melodies; Travel


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


EPIGRAM ON THE PLAY AT AMSTERDAM, by WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bigots at home, and infidels abroad
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Travel


EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


EPITAFIO, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came drowned in the afternoon to the blue house
Last Line: And their sister, also, on the mossy rocky road to africa
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Travel


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


EPITAPH ON A WAITER, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By and by
Last Line: God caught his eye
Variant Title(s): Waiter; On A Waite
Subject(s): Travel; Waiters And Waitresses


ERICA, 1967, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She liked people who didn't stop looking for something-
Last Line: By a war of winds.' it's wild here. I love it
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Travel


ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


ESTEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your name, esther, in your mother's shy campesino voice
Last Line: Beyond my reach, deep in the mute heart
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ETERNAL LONDON, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And is there then no earthly place
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Rhymes On The Roa
Subject(s): Travel


ETUDES IN THE NEXT WORLD, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Transcription flickers in the tallow light
Last Line: Nowhere else to look and I don't recognize a thing
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


EVEN THE OHIO CAN CHANGE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river I grew up on was rank
Last Line: Fallen from a willow branch
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


EVENING: SPAIN, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when night comes they will sing serenades
Subject(s): Travel


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


EXACT MOMENT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our fingers apprised of the situation begin to flirt and flicker across the
Last Line: Without sound, without insight
Subject(s): Desire; Love; New England; Travel


EXALTATION, by DAVID HENDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's gone, now, %that thrill, that rush
Last Line: All points of the compass %before me
Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Old Age; Travel


EXILE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night we fled the country, papi
Last Line: Eager, afraid, not yet sure of the outcome
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


EXPEDITIONS, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My chauffeur lectured me
Last Line: As mountains blurred beneath our feet. %we grieved for all that lay ahead
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel


EXTEMPORE, by CHIA TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight, heart
Last Line: Of stars, in the clear dark sky
Subject(s): Travel; Zen Buddhism


EYE OF THE COLD, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First-time nome visitors see history
Last Line: An impenetrable flux of culture and trash- %into winter's dark mirror of gold
Subject(s): Cold; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Tourists; Travel; Winter


EYE REFLECTING THE GOLD OF FALL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver is the ruby's faded glare
Last Line: Banging like grain like the door against ice air
Subject(s): Autumn; Cosmology; Seasons; Travel; Weather


FACING NORTH, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is little to do with me, I thought, waiting
Last Line: There was no soundness in her, suppurating %bruises, sores and wounds. My hands are full of blood
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Tourists; Travel


FAKIR, by RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A fakir a religious well known in the east
Last Line: All tortured by choice with the invisible nail
Subject(s): India; Travel


FALL WIND, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pods of summer crowd around the door
Last Line: Once for thin walls, once for the sound of time
Subject(s): Travel


FALLS AT GREEN VALLEY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boulders like gray whales breach the canyon floor
Last Line: Hearts flaming like red bark on manzanita
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Waterfalls


FANTASIA, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He lived in the glow of her smile
Last Line: And blazing emerald the earth
Subject(s): Absence; Fantasy; Love; Travel


FANTASIA, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old grand piano
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel


FANTASIA ON CLAVIERS AT NIGHT, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch'd a white-hair'd figure like a breeze
Last Line: "thou hast another day!"
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Travel


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 Analysis             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


FAREWELL TO NEW ZEALAND, by WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Super-suburbia of the southern seas
Last Line: I've seen the catch, and here's my partiing crack - %it's under-sized; for god's sake throw it back!
Subject(s): New Zealand; Travel


FAT LADY TRAVELS, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On any train
Last Line: And, oh, it holding!
Subject(s): Obesity; Travel


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


FAUST BOOK: FAUST JOURNEYS TO UNKNOWN REGIONS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dolphins bore faust to the bottom of the sea
Last Line: He will charm your sins away
Subject(s): Faust; Travel


FEBRUARY THAW, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cabbie gets out of his cab in the breezeway at penn
Last Line: Today, and the police are using grappling hooks in &hopes of finding the bodies
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Travel


FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Going south, we watched spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Southern States; Colors; Nature, Travel; South (u.s.)


FIELD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The afternoon is dying
Last Line: In the distance, love's darkness waits for you
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Travel


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


FIELDS OF SORIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold and arid land of soria
Last Line: With happiness, with light and abundance!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


FIELDS OF SORIA: 3, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An undulating country, where the roads %do not conceal the travellers
Last Line: With snowy summits blushing like the rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Travel


FIELDS OF SORIA: 4, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, these are they that move 'twixt land and sky
Last Line: Their shadows slowly lengthen as they pass
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Shadows; Travel


FILIGREE OF THE FAMILIAR, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, all the men wear mustaches
Last Line: Linking the outbound voyage to the everyday
Subject(s): Boston; Continents; Maps; Travel


FINAL, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will die in tonala among the ceramic hamburgers
Last Line: Anything in my life, I will want to play too
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


FINDING TOKEN CREEK, by ROBERT ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the yahara enters lake mendota, it widens out and flows through
Last Line: Surface. While the wind blows uncommonly from the cloudless northeast
Subject(s): Brooks; Canoes And Canoeing; Rivers; Travel; United States; Wisconsin


FINK'S, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I told you about fink's bar
Last Line: So that of which we cannot speak %is said completely clearly
Subject(s): Absence; Travel


FINLANDIA, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I follow you through
Last Line: To breathe the miracle alone
Subject(s): Absence; Finland; Islands; Solitude; Travel


FIRE IN THE OLD WAY, by FLORENCE FRIESEN LARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, so young!' you groan of the photo
Last Line: How we knew to keep that flame %burning
Subject(s): Caves; New Mexico; Pictures; Travel; Vacation


FIRST FLIGHT, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is the perfect vision: in the dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of
Subject(s): Air Travel


FIRST HUNT, by GLORIA ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near dark %snow falling like flakes of light
Subject(s): Travel


FIRST LOVE LETTER, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest- %addressed by your hand the envelope seems
Last Line: Your common-sounding, no less cherished name- %joe
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


FIRST MEN ON THE MOON, by ALAN ANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flash! Flash! Flash! As a tribute to our hostess our gallant united nations
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


FIRST NIGHT-FLIGHT, by MARGARET BODEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Space inconceivable
Last Line: Gaily, to die.
Subject(s): Air Travel


FISH THEY CALL SIERRA, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They name it for how it leaps, for its wish to become sky
Last Line: Unclenches the star on his hand
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


FISHERMAN, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now comes the fisherman to terms
Subject(s): Travel


FISHING BLUE CREEK, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


FISHING THE ENCAMPMENT, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the encampment slowed %to wander through a meadow, I stood
Last Line: By then about trust, about what you think %you know about life, or love
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


FLAMES, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tarot reader told me what to do
Last Line: Leaving the peeling paint untouched
Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Travel


FLIGHT, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day you were there, the next day gone
Subject(s): Travel


FLIGHT, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the half-dark cabin of air lanka flight 5
Subject(s): Sri Lanka; Air Travel; Ceylon


FLIGHT ACROSS AFRICA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, from miles up, lies
Last Line: The bloody baft -- which is enough touchdown
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Africa; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Travel


FLIGHT OUT, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buckling yourself into your aisle seat
Last Line: And at last your own aircraft begins to roll
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska


FLIGHT PATHS, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait in yet another airport for a man. Bos
Last Line: Of bone, vivid and adrift in burning air
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


FLIGHT PLAN, by JANE MERCHANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the ways of traveling
Subject(s): Air Travel; Machinery And Machinists


FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not
Last Line: That some secrets are hidden from health
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLIGHT TO LIMBO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The line didn't move, though there were not
Last Line: While ill-paid wraiths mopped circles of night %into the motionless floor
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress
Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


FLORIDA RESORT SCENE, 1964, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A number one record warping in the april sun
Last Line: Deep at the waist, and slips his body down
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations
Last Line: All night, the cities, like shimmering novas, %tug with bright streets at lonely lights like this
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLYING FRIENDLY SKIES, by TURNER CASSITY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our left and right show red and green: mute phonics
Last Line: Her reading light. I? I fall in between
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLYING HOME, by MADELYN CAMRUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just past fargo, it is night
Last Line: Up and down the horizon, like stars, %disappearing
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Homecoming; Travel


FLYING HOME, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down milk-bright colonnades
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLYING HOME FROM UTAH, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forests are branches of a tree lying down
Last Line: A leaf within a wilderness of worlds
Subject(s): Air Travel


FLYING TO SAUSALITO WITH MY SISTER, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a cloud above the badlands
Last Line: En route to our %dying brother
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Travel


FOLLOWERS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


FOLLOWING A CABIN CRUISER IN A BLIZZARD, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nose raised to the wind
Last Line: With salt sea water, %or blood
Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Snow; Storms; Travel


FOR D., by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks
Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation


FOR ONE OF GIAN BELLINI'S LITTLE ANGELS, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My task it is to stand beneath the throne
Subject(s): Travel


FOR SUE, by PHILLIP HEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine times, babe, that summer on the dock
Subject(s): Travel


FOR THE OLD MEN AT THE GRINDSTONE FACTORY, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vinnie told me everyday
Last Line: Docks waited for our rough fruit
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


FORD PICKUP, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Call me the valiant heading west on fourteen into the frozen
Subject(s): Travel


FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget
Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel


FOUND AMONG LETTERS TO HIS MISTRESS, by ED WICKLIFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us set forth upon our journey now
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Letters; Sea Voyages; Travel


FRANCOIS COUPERIN AT VERSAILLES, by ROGER CALDWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rooms seemed infinite; the mirrors
Last Line: Of laborious carts to tumbrils %over cobbled streets
Subject(s): Travel; Versailles, Frances


FRANK BROKE, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frank broke the precedent and traveled to the odd east
Last Line: He moves early and evacuates the fifth jet to washington. %in nineteen days it fit
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Travel


FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


FRAULUND, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hair on an invisible skull
Last Line: They turn in the darkness, %facing their own teeth
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


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


FREQUENT FLIER II, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How delicious, to step into this new skin!
Last Line: His wife in chagall's the kiss!
Subject(s): Air Travel; Marriage


FRESH SNOW, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow rolls off the roof
Last Line: That stun you like rum
Subject(s): Snow; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Winter


FRIEND'S WISH, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me your last aloha
Last Line: When your bright summer sail goes down %into the zones of sun!
Subject(s): Travel


FRIENDS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How far friends are! They forget you
Last Line: But this familiar pen that comforts %near things:friend, here's my hand
Subject(s): Travel


FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS DAY, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing in the shadow of a hangar
Last Line: As if they were stars of the show
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation And Aviators; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Travel


FROM THE JOURNEY AROUND PARNASSUS, by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poets are made of clay of dainty worth
Last Line: The countless follies of unnumbered plays!
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Travel


FROM A JOURNAL FROM FRANCE, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As we eat crushed strawberry ice
Subject(s): Travel


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 ABOVE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These pink-white acres of overcast
Subject(s): Air Travel


FROM ALMADA HILL: AN EPISTLE FROM LISBON, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, my friend, from louring wintry plains
Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William
Subject(s): Travel


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 HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've always dreaded this kind of dislocation
Last Line: Upon my back, with words (now pray) my hoist and mortar
Subject(s): Castles; Scotland; Tourists; Travel


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 AFRICAN DESERT, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It comes, the blast of death! That sudden glare
Subject(s): Travel


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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What stops me is the big indifference
Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips


FUJI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, on the slow, scalloped flanks
Last Line: Through the sky %beyond the tract of time
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fuji, Mount; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel


FUJIS, by GINA PARLAPIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are my tired apples
Last Line: So desperately from its home
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Travel


FULL DAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pilot on the plane says
Subject(s): Air Travel; Progress


FUTURE DEBRIS, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Until he died we thought our neighbor dull
Last Line: Cabinets, ah, they'll glimmer like stars
Subject(s): Astronauts; Hopkins, John (d. 1570); Space And Space Travel; Universe


GALLERIES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue a band %of a few black birds
Last Line: Transparent, empty, blind, winged
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


GARDEN AT HEIDELBERG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


GASOLINE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten feet above the boat dock bar
Last Line: Any time. Any weather. Any direction
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning
Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America


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


GEOGRAPHY OF DESIRE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you insist on history
Last Line: It's just a hole between the last time I saw you %and now, this life, our life
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


GEORGE WYNDHAM: JUNE 8TH, 1913, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 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 FROM HERE TO THERE, by PETE FAULKNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A white farmhouse
Last Line: The smell of a new town
Subject(s): Travel


GETTING LOST, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is an activity which has about it the subtlety of zen and can only
Last Line: It is also inspiring
Subject(s): Travel


GETTING PLACES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That red gash in the hills, I told her
Last Line: Good, she said, we're getting places now
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


GETTING TO SPRING (NOT WITHOUT TREPIDATION), by ROBERT LAX    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the back of the florida basker
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


GHAZAL FOR THE WOMAN FROM VITEZ, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the best watermelon in the world
Last Line: Laughing because we have found a way out through words
Subject(s): Bosnia; Travel


GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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: 2, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I load my own shells and have a suitcase of pressed
Last Line: & nitrogen, the rows are crooked and the field limp, depleted.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Travel


GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


GHOSTS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Those houses haunt in which we leave
Subject(s): Travel


GIBRALTAR, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: England, we love thee better than we know
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Travel


GIFT AND PRIZE, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Manners still intact, smack of poor talk
Last Line: For the shameless moment, I covet my own life
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


GIOTTO'S CAMPANILE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchased with precious marbles, pure and rare
Subject(s): Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Travel


GIRL IN VALENTINE, NEBRASKA, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The x-ray map of my foot lit up
Last Line: By all her other lives and deaths
Subject(s): Memory; Nebraska; Travel


GLACIER, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its hectares of white
Subject(s): Travel


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


GLADYS SINGING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladys sang as she worked
Last Line: Rooms sparkling like jewels %in a mummy's lonely tomb
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


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 Full 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


GLOBETROTTER, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across sands as endless as the day
Last Line: And never arrived anywhere
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


GO TRAVELING WITH US!, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To evening's sea
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1513; Poem: 156
Subject(s): Travel


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


GO, LITTLE BOOK - THE ANCIENT PHRASE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our distant faces reappear
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Travel


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 BACK TO SLEEP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After making love, I hear you in the bathroom
Last Line: All night we go back and forth, back and forth, %towards what we think we want
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


GOING GREYHOUND, by TANIA RUNYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You sit by a woman holding a sack of frid chicken
Last Line: On the way to her old, hungry son
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Mothers And Sons; Travel


GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor
Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast
Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America


GOING TO JINJA, by JIM STUNTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a thousand ugandan shillings
Last Line: To shop, looking for a basket %for my mother
Subject(s): Africa; Travel; Uganda


GOING TO SEE THE TAJ MAHAL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we set out on the train to agra
Last Line: To free them from the so-called glamour of a mumtaz
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mansions; Taj Mahal; Travel


GOING TO ZAKOPANE, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so mama divided the potato among the three of us ...'
Last Line: On the icy peak
Subject(s): Fathers; Poland; Travel


GOING UP FOR THE MAIL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking up for the mail
Last Line: Setting the first blaze %on sobaka's ass
Subject(s): Travel; Walking


GOLD NEST, by ROBERT WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father's father gave
Subject(s): Travel


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


GORING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


GOYNG TOWARDS SPAIN, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell thou fertyll soyle, that brutus fyrst out founde
Last Line: O myghty god, grant wether, wynd and tyde, %tyll on my count reye coast, our anker fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby
Subject(s): Travel


GRACE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soft rap at the door
Last Line: And the storm again begins
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


GRANADA NOTEBOOK #5, by MYRONN HARDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We sit down to black tea
Last Line: Seethed an atlantic brimming with gold
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Travel


GRASS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oriented in new tropics, away from bong
Last Line: Minatory mornings none where I've gone
Subject(s): Absence; Expressionism - Poets; Horseback Riding; Travel


GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Pastora
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


GREEK ARCHIPELAGOES, by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crete smoulders on sea, half-way to africa
Subject(s): Greece; Travel


GREEN AND ACTUAL GUATEMALA, by GARY SHORT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A chain of painted bleeding hearts
Last Line: Is step through the shining moons
Subject(s): Guatemala; Travel


GREEN COCONUTS: RIO, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At insular cafe tables under awnings
Subject(s): Travel


GREEN STREET GRILL: FIRST DATE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the silence
Last Line: Waiting to comply with the weather
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Travel


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


GRIN AND BEAR LEFT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to be classed among the pedantics
Last Line: Dinner cold is on a ridge, a ledge, a knoll, a rise, or a hill
Subject(s): Travel Directions


GUAYABAS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Puckered pears %arranged in hard pyramids on the stone
Last Line: The curve of her cheek
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


GUDVEIG, by FRANCIS BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So runed on a rune-stick, and the rune-stick put in a coffin
Last Line: The ghost of a woman, her body overboard %laid, in the waters around
Subject(s): Archeology; Greenland; Norlund, Poul; Travel


GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america
Last Line: Age after age, the uninstructing dead
Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States


GUNNAR'S HOWE ABOVE THE HOUSE AND LITHEND, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who have come o'er the sea
Subject(s): Iceland; Travel


GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


H.M.S. GLORY AT SYDNEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But I remember, I remember sydney
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Australia; Travel


HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture
Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless
Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel


HAITI, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's 4 a.M. On her birthday
Last Line: Again. She watches her mother turn into the horizon
Subject(s): Haiti; Travel


HALE-BOPP, by SHARON KOUROUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How this least dot wheels: ice and fire
Last Line: Beyond this little globe, this space we hire
Subject(s): Comets; Space And Space Travel


HANGING TOBACCO, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue gauze air, laces of light
Last Line: Down the red clay roads home
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon
Last Line: What does it mean. This is not a question, but an exclamation
Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe


HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon
Last Line: This is not a question, but %an exclamation
Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe


HARDSHIPS OF THE ROAD, by LU QINGZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: With orchid and musk
Last Line: Is truly already spent
Subject(s): Travel


HARMONICA LESSON, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't showboat if you can't do the train
Last Line: It should sound like kansas
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


HARVESTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The islandman says aristotle had three sons
Last Line: Other out-of-the-way philosophies.
Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Independence; Philosophy And Philosophers; Travel


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


HAVE YOU NOTED THE WHITE AREAS, by CARLYLE REEDY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


HAWAII, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In hawaii I know
Last Line: I am going to write of this beautiful %uniformed island, I warn them. %what a grand idea, they urge
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Tourists; Travel


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


HAZEL, SOUTH DAKOTA, by BOB JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just before sunset on the first day of may
Last Line: To whenever it all began, %wherever
Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


HE NEVER TOOK A VACATION, by JOHN WARREN HARPER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of honolulu
Last Line: Or would be, but for me
Subject(s): Air Travel


HEADING FOR NANDI, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of honolulu
Last Line: Or would be, but for me
Subject(s): Air Travel


HEADING OUT, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond here there's no map
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


HEADWATERS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Headwaters %of the sacramento
Last Line: Headwaters %spirits %rise
Subject(s): Sacramento, California; Travel


HEART, by JOAN LABOMBARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a steadfast soldier
Subject(s): Travel


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


HER STORY, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her palms pale with masa
Last Line: Vanish into the twilit water like prayer
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


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 Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the copper marsh %I saw a stilted heron %wade the tidal wash
Last Line: I saw the herring flash %and drop. And the dash %of lesser wings in the barren %marsh flew through m
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Travel


HIGH ROAD TO TAOS, by MICHAEL TRITTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's some kind of flicker at the base
Last Line: Slow, slow in a swim of wild amber, %we stop at the first red light
Subject(s): Taoism; Travel


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


HIGH TREASON, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not love my country. Its abstract splendour
Last Line: And three or four rivers
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face
Last Line: We all are to see your face
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel


HIGHWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems too enormous just for a man to be
Last Line: Than to places you can reach by going on
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Hunger; Memory; Roads; Travel Directions


HIGHWAY TRAVEL NOTE, by IRENE WARSAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred geese propelled their v
Last Line: I wasn't in their way
Subject(s): Geese; Travel


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


HINDU ASCETIC, by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here as I sit by the jumna bank
Variant Title(s): Studies At Delphi, 187
Subject(s): India; Travel


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


HISTORY OF STEEL, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In winter we wore thick coats
Last Line: Like scholars, we are the subjects %of our own idle debate
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


HISTORY OF THE PETS, by DAVID HUDDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butch, a black cocker spaniel, collected
Last Line: Affectionate cat that walked crooked, that'd been %bb-shot in the head. Goat. Skunk. Some snakes
Subject(s): Travel


HITTING THE MOON, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hitting the moon and the soviet photograph
Last Line: Joint efforts made a snow letter and russia would not forget
Subject(s): Biltmore Hotel (los Angeles); Tourists; Travel


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


HOLDING PATTERN, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intermittent wet under
Last Line: Between your knees
Subject(s): Air Travel


HOLIDAY, by THOMAS FRANK BIGNOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Embalm, o muse, in an appropriate lay
Last Line: And to that end as swiftly as I can %shall take this copy to the 'englishman'
Subject(s): India; Travel


HOLIDAY AT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks to this century of travel
Last Line: He said, o light-struck evening
Variant Title(s): Poem For A Holiday At Hom
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun
Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the fight finger
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 1. HIS SMILE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over peoria we lost the sun
Last Line: When I was a boy I had a wart on the right forefinger
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better
Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 2. THE WART, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At 38,000 feet you had better
Last Line: At 38,000 feet that is hard to remember
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money
Last Line: All you have to do it not argue
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 3. THE SPIDER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spider has more eyes than I have money
Last Line: All you have to do is not argue
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind
Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 4. ONE DRUNK ALLEGORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not argue, unless, that is, you are the kind
Last Line: To my right, far over kentucky, the stars are shining
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were
Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 5. MULTIPLICATION, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the christmas tree at rockefeller center were
Last Line: In a room, somewhere, a telephone keeps ringing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling
Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 6. WIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind comes off the sound, smelling
Last Line: The wind gouges its knuckles into my eye. No wonder there are tears
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see
Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile?
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


HOMAGE TO EMERSON, ON NIGHT FLIGHT TO NEW YORK: 7. DOES THE WILD ROSE?, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you reach home tonight you will see
Last Line: Is it merely a delusion that they seem about to smile?
Subject(s): Air Travel; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)


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 COOKING CAFE, by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are little airy creatures
Subject(s): Travel


HOME FIRES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our last full day together we pass a house
Last Line: As if we could combine our lives and blow %this ending out
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


HOME FROM A WALK, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Assassinated by the sky
Last Line: Assassinated by the sky
Subject(s): Feet; Travel; Walking


HOME FROM ABROAD, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways
Subject(s): Travel


HOME PLACE, by ROBERT CURRIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Agnes looked through the window
Subject(s): Travel


HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD: REUNIONS: KENSINGTON, 1994, by DIANN BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jet-lagged, yanking my mother's huge suitcase
Last Line: Would come in swarms. No rooms are ready yet
Subject(s): Reunions; Travel


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 Analysis             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


HOMES, by JOAN CUSACK HANDLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I envy the nomad
Last Line: Or perhaps %become %it's own
Subject(s): Home; Travel


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


HORIZONTAL SONG DISAPPEARS INTO A, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Above the rain forest
Subject(s): Travel


HORSESHOE CRABS MATING AT CARRABELLE BEACH, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through shallow water %warm as a bath
Last Line: Something we could mistake for love
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


HOT DAY, by STEVE EFFINGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downtown l.A. 5th street off main back behind greyhound station
Last Line: Cop car moves slowly down street
Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Los Angeles; Travel


HOTTENTOT, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mild melancholy, and sedate, he stands
Subject(s): Travel


HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The journey ends here
Subject(s): Travel


HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The journey ends here
Last Line: Already, perhaps, weighs anchor for the eternal
Subject(s): Houses; Sea; Travel


HOUSE OF READERS, by JIM WAYNE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 9:42 on this may morning
Last Line: I listen like a farmer in the rows
Subject(s): Travel


HOUSES, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


HOW I ESCAPED FROM THE LABYRINTH, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was easy
Last Line: It was easy. %I kept losing my way
Subject(s): Travel


HOW I GET HOME TONIGHT, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turn north on 1, past my dad's old place, the land
Last Line: In that welcome, who could possibly be there
Subject(s): North, The; Travel Directions


HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it
Last Line: For the light to change, together at last
Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me....
Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking


HOW TO READ A MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maps expose %seven continents, travel
Last Line: Elegant as cryptograms, %falling and unafraid
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Maps; Travel; Travel Directions; Villages


HUMBLE WISH. OFF PORTO-SANCTO, MARCH 29, 1779, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never yet arraigned the will of heaven
Last Line: Will perfect this before my sand is run, %I bow - if not, your mighty wills be done
Subject(s): Travel


HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're home
Last Line: For a flicker of happiness
Subject(s): Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; Tourists; Travel


HUNTER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunter crouches in his blind
Last Line: Is hoping to outwit a duck
Subject(s): Hunting; Travel


I ARRIVED IN THAT TOWN, EVERYONE GREETED ME AND I KNEW NO ONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's the name of this town
Last Line: Who awaits me around the corner
Subject(s): Immigrants; Poetry And Poets; Towns; Travel


I CAME TO A ROADSIDE DWELLING, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Hospitality; Travel


I CAN TELL YOU, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can tell you about airplanes
Last Line: To walk away alive
Subject(s): Advice; Air Travel


I DROVE UP IN MAMI'S MERCEDES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Waving the guard adios, I headed down the mountain
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I FEEL LIKE FRANKFURT, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well I feel like frankfurt and tranquility base
Last Line: The idiot is beautifully covered with moons. %the teenage writer can see the stars and stripes
Subject(s): Armstrong, Neil (b. 1930); Astronauts; Moon; Pictures; Space And Space Travel; Television


I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel


I HADN'T FIT INTO ANY OF THE STORIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Chiquita, I was on my way back to where I cam from!
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I HAVE WALKED MANY ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: They relax below the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel


I HEAR PAPITO CALLING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the shore I've made up on the other side
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I KNOW A MAN, by PEGGY STEELE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


I LOVE TO FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dream I am making phone calls to dozens of airlines
Last Line: And I love to fly
Subject(s): Air Travel


I SEEK THE PRESENT TIME, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When the engine bell rings
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Travel


I SPEED TOWARD THE MOON, by CONSTANCE HANSTEDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a deserted oakland freeway
Last Line: Burst of the moon
Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Roads; Travel


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 GETTING OUT AND GOING SOME 30 KILOMETERS TOWARDS THE COAST, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: While herds of walrus have their flanks pecked open by the birds
Subject(s): Peru; Seashore; Travel


I'M GOING TO BOMBAY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


I'VE MET EVERYONE IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A happy ending to close at least one version of my story
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


I'VE TRAVELLED FAR IN MANY LANDS, by HINTON WHITE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Religion; Travel


I. (RAFAEL CAME BY, THE NIGHT BEFORE THE DEPORTATIONS), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rafael came by, the night before the deportations were to start. He was dressed
Last Line: Where is the sky? Where?
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Angels; Travel


ICELAND FIRST SEEN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo from our loitering ship a new land at
Last Line: Whence the gods stood aloof to behold?
Subject(s): Iceland; Travel


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


IF NOT, by LAURA CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have recently begun to
Last Line: That money grows on the spruce trees, love on the vines
Subject(s): Alaska; Travel


IF YOU SEE ME IN L.A. IT'S BECAUSE I'M LOOKING FOR AIRPORT, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even without hollywood
Last Line: Beholding the distance %of the smog
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Los Angeles; Mexico City; Travel; West Indies


IMAGE OF IRELANDE, SELS., by JOHN DERRICKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: No table there is spread
Last Line: They grow through daily exercise %to all iniquity
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


IMMOBILITY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche
Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche
Last Line: As if a firmament were being exhumed
Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel


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


IMPROMPTU ON A TRIP, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have traveled long in foreign lands
Last Line: I seem to see a city at sea
Subject(s): Travel


IMPULSE OF SINGING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That journey he made
Last Line: How bitterly beautiful, before the crazy women [or, madwomen] ripped him?
Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Travel


IN 62 THE STARVING SEABIRDS REACHED THE CENTER OF LIMA, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the birds have travelled form the coast -- the spring
Last Line: While herds of walrus have their flanks pecked open by the birds
Subject(s): Migration; Peru; Travel


IN A CAB, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 COUNTRY OF WAREHOUSES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed %I was a stranger
Last Line: These %made them %furious
Subject(s): Dreams; San Francisco; Strangers; Travel


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 SHUTTERED ROOM I ROAST, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


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 AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ascending, I left noisy earth behind
Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams
Subject(s): Air Travel


IN AN AIRPLANE, by YAN YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ascending, I leave noisy earth behind
Last Line: Surpassing what's in the sky, more beautiful than dreams
Subject(s): Air Travel


IN AN AIRPLANE I'M SUPPOSED TO, by SARAH KIRSCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I climb out there
Subject(s): Air Travel


IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see
Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th
Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel


IN ESCROW, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We sold our truckee cabin
Last Line: South, a little lower down
Subject(s): Change; Life; Travel


IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 KONA, THINKING OF THE ELEMENTS, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trades: after midnight they grow strong as the surf
Last Line: Afternoon slipped down, extravagant into evening
Subject(s): Nature; Travel


IN LIKE A LION, by GEOF HEWITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white howl of march
Subject(s): Travel


IN MEMORY OF THE SPACE SHIP CHALLENGER, by WANG XIAO-LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: What changes take place in this instant
Last Line: Dreams and wings will return to our shoulders %do we have shoulders
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


IN OUR NAME, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside this room we don't come to: the sizzle and spit
Last Line: The nightmares he has may never be publicly shared
Subject(s): Florida; Travel


IN PASSING, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bee man sells his honey down the road, where the sign says 'park
Last Line: Away; 'I wonder if anything's changed at all here in five hundred years.'
Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Tourists; Travel


IN PRAISE OF FEET, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some can walk over burning coals
Last Line: Then stretch. When in ecstasy, the toes arch %instinctively upward
Subject(s): Feet; Travel


IN PRAISE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED (BORN 1775, DIED 1847), by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 PRAISE OF SEAFARING MEN, IN HOPES OF GOOD FORTUNE, by RICHARD GRENVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who seeks the way to win renown
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


IN PRAISE OF TRAVELING, by KRZYSZTOF LISOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I haven't traveled anywhere. But is that bad?
Last Line: And all alone look around that other world
Subject(s): Home; Travel


IN ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S CAR, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above a cliff %a boy could see it
Last Line: And still don't know %what lasts of what's written
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Roads; Travel


IN SPANISH LANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man of these lands, burning down the pines
Last Line: Over which floats the roaming shade of cain
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


IN SUSPENSE, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Full 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 CAFE, by RUTH ELIZABETH BORSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


IN THE COURSE OF TRAVEL: STRYCHNINE EVERY FEW HOURS. SOME ITALIAN.., by D. A. POWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Last Line: My own birdlike nuts. My own startled happiness at the slightest breeze
Subject(s): Travel


IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something dangerous and dull
Last Line: My hands shaking on the wheel, %driving straight through america
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel


IN THE FIELD FOREVER, by ROBERT WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun's a roaring dandelion, hour by hour
Subject(s): Travel


IN THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mapmaker is measuring the earth
Last Line: The language of maps is constantly changing
Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel


IN THE MANNER OF JUAN DE MAIRENA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mouth is made of fire
Last Line: Graceful amazon of the frozen fields!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


IN THE MARKET, JESUS CLEANS FISH, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One slick hand slides in
Last Line: Like lupe when she moans
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


IN THE MUSEUM OF THE WORD (HENRI MATISSE), by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was the shield of another language
Subject(s): Travel; Language; Journeys; Trips; Words; Vocabulary


IN THE NORTHERN TOWNS, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are familiar with absences
Last Line: Country in the park
Subject(s): North, The; Towns; Travel Directions


IN THE SIXTIES: 3. WHAT COUNTS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our astronomic signallers are sure
Last Line: But without language we shall never know
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


INSPIRATION, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where even at the height of summer
Last Line: Gallicism crying in the wilderness of america!
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; South America; Travel


INSTANCES, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nice place ya got here
Last Line: In malinche's country
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Travel; Journeys; Trips


INSTEAD OF AN INTERVIEW, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills, I told them; and water, and the clear air
Last Line: By going back to look, after thirteen years, %have I made myself for the first time an exile?
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Homecoming; New Zealand; Travel


INSULARUM OCELLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


INTERCOURSE, PA, by JOHN HOPPENTHALER    Poem Source                    
First Line: After tourist traps, the wax museum
Last Line: Dark of intercourse, a postcard %yellowing on your freezer door
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


INTERSTATE DREAMS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And why not? It's smooth travelling we want, why pre-
Last Line: Ther side? I tell you, search your souls. Have you ever truly %brought freeways into your life?
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


INTO YOUR EYE, by VENO TAUFER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not the foam in the wake of the ship
Last Line: In the guest sweeping a lash into your eye
Subject(s): Drought; Dust; Roads; Travel


INVENTION OF LONGITUDE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unsolved: frost clotting a broken
Last Line: Who has approached too close to motion
Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Maps; Travel


INVENTION OF THE TELEPHONE, by PETER KLAPPERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time it took he could have
Subject(s): Travel


INVISIBLE PHILADELPHIA, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In rittenhouse square, a white man pirouettes
Last Line: Did you see that? He carried his own case
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


INVITATION TO THE GONDOLA, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come forth; for night is falling
Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Travel


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


IRON LANDSCAPES (AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY), by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No trellisses, no vines a fire escape
Last Line: Lorn, bold, as if saluting with her fist
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Travel


ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands
Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels boxed in these blocks
Subject(s): Air Travel


ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands
Last Line: Dewdrops of longing, jewels, boxed in these blocks
Subject(s): Air Travel


ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the taste of the
Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel


IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ABROAD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To him — sums misery
Subject(s): Travel; Nature


IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And we cannot bear to grow old
Last Line: Pack lightly we move so fast
Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States


ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ITALIAN SCENERY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night rests in beauty on mont alto
Subject(s): Travel


ITCH, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm itching to head
Last Line: A man past his prime
Subject(s): Travel


ITINERARY, by AMY ENGLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take the path indicated
Last Line: A line of spilled column drums. %bees drink of
Subject(s): Travel


ITINERARY, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs
Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Nature; Journeys; Trips


ITS FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM, AND ON TOWARDS THE WEST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Against the gates of darkness as beside the gates of gold
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Travel; God; Faith; Survival


IV. (AGAIN I SUSPENDED THE BIG WHITE UMBRELLAS), by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I suspended the big white umbrellas in the night air. I know: the new
Last Line: My journey, but my strength is exhausted, and I close my eyes in search of a %man with a boat
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Travel


IVBIE: A SONG OF WRONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it not late now in the day
Last Line: An innocent in sleep of the ages
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Archeology; Tourists; Travel


IVORY, by MARIO LUZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ever-dark cypress is alive
Last Line: Never to be heaped with flowers
Subject(s): Cities; Travel


JA JA, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The guard at the jewelry store sights along the barrel of his
Last Line: Turns the corner. He lowers the gun. Ja ja
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


JAMAICAN BUS RIDE, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The live fowl squatting on the grapefruit and bananas
Last Line: Or by the gods of jamaica %this day is our last!
Subject(s): Travel


JANUARY FLIGHT: NOME TO KOTZEBUE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On that half-hour hop
Last Line: As my shadow flapped %and shot into day
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Nome, Alaska; Sky; Travel


JANUARY MORNING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


JESUS CLOSES HIS EYES, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the parish where my grandfather
Last Line: No one here understands
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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 Analysis             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


JOBSON'S AMEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blessed be the english and all their ways and works
Subject(s): Travel


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


JOURNAL OF A TOUR THROUGH THE COURTS OF GERMANY, SELS., by JAMES BOSWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy bread, westphalia, thy brown bread I sing
Subject(s): Travel


JOURNEY, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day %the caravans move through the hot sun
Last Line: As if ahead somewhere near destination; %and somewhere stillness
Subject(s): Caravans; Cities; Roads; Travel


JOURNEY, by STELLA MILLER DICKERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're going on a journey
Last Line: I'll soon be ther to meet you, %please travel very slow
Subject(s): Travel


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 FROM PATAPSCO IN MARYLAND TO ANNAPOLIS, by RICHARD+(2) LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At length the wintry horrors disappear
Last Line: And learn to know myself, and honour %thee
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Memory; Nature; Travel


JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long journey out of the self,
Subject(s): Travel; Landscape; Journeys; Trips


JOURNEY SOUTH, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: How have you been, %my beautiful friend
Last Line: Bless us, %eucalyptus
Subject(s): California; Immigrants; Travel; United States


JOURNEYS, by BARBARA CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband wants difficult things
Last Line: The poem I was going to write today
Subject(s): Hiking; Maps; Roads; Travel


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


JUAN OF THE ANGELS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sits in the dark bar. The hotel
Last Line: The boy plays on alone
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


JUNE TWENTY-FIRST, by BRUCE GUERNSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother's cigarette flares and fades
Subject(s): Travel


JUNK TRAVEL THROUGH WEST MEMPHIS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woman with a starshell light behind her eyes
Last Line: She slips and taps inside its iridescent wave
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


JUNKYARDS, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take any junkyard %you will see it is filled
Last Line: The cogs and the flywheels %all the parts of dynamos %all the parts of motors %rusting
Subject(s): Travel


JUNO BEACH AND THE SEA TURTLE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old enough to sense the confusion
Last Line: Glanced off the hoods of cars
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


KALEIDSCOPE, by DAVID GILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You do not know this byaruhanga: he is short
Last Line: He'll never start
Subject(s): Children; Travel; Uganda


KANGAROO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the northern hemisphere
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel; Journeys; Trips


KANGAROO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the northern hemisphere
Last Line: Leap then, and come down on the line that draws to the earth's %deep, heavy centre
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Kangaroos; Travel


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


KEY WEST, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I feel sad, I thank god I don't have tiny lizards crawling under my
Last Line: The shivering of this airplane's unpredictable wing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Key West, Florida


KOALA, by ALAN ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How should I describe you-eternal
Subject(s): Australia; Koalas; Travel


KOZY KORNER MOTEL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Easy, the franchise-man had said,
Last Line: Bending to the breeze.
Subject(s): Business; Hotels; Travel


KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses
Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism


KRAL MAJALES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses
Last Line: Thus I have written this poem on a jet seat in mid heaven
Subject(s): Air Travel; Communism


L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


L'OISEAU BLEU, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did they make love that night
Last Line: Our unbearable urges at all
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Roads; Travel


LA ESTRELLA, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The star is everywhere, says miguel
Last Line: Is closed, holding his star safe
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


LA PLUS BELLE STROPHE DE ROBERT DESNOS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: 44. Amorous traveler of tender maps, why nourish your nights
Last Line: With tarts af ash?
Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Travel


LA SENORA DE GARCIA-MARCOS CONSIDERS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can I cover me with a snake?
Last Line: My jeweled wrists and hands
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


LA VERBENA CEMETERY, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In guatemala city %the dead are buried
Last Line: And the ashes of the departed %mix with the factory waste
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Guatemala; Travel


LAGOS -- IBADAN ROAD BEFORE SHAGAMU, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bus groaned uphill. Trapped
Last Line: Are looking for the driver %who escaped unhurt
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Driving And Drivers; Prisons And Prisoners; Roads; Travel


LAKE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We won't return. Like seeds, awkward as auks
Last Line: Twelve heretics condemned in secret trials, %a noblewoman singing to herself.
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Lakes; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel; Water


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     Poem Explanation                 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


LAMENT OF PROFESSOR TURBOJET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why vainly do I hither fly
Last Line: But does it matter what I say?
Subject(s): Air Travel


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


LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE TRAVELER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a winter evening
Last Line: And grasps an iron hatchet
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Cold; Fields; Spain; Travel


LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip
Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down
Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City


LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip
Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down
Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City


LAPSE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the last war we drafted pages and pages
Last Line: Sitting up in the seminaked sunshine, %his hair blowing all around
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Wills


LASAGNA, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wouldn't you love
Last Line: The mood was on ya?
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Pasta; Travel


LAST BREATH, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breathe! I demanded, like when you had your babies
Last Line: Breathe, it's up to you to keep her alive
Subject(s): Air; Breath; Life; Travel


LAST LINES: 2. ON A BOXER, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In his still corner rocky takes the count
Last Line: He would not rise again for any amount
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Travel


LAST LOVE STORY, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After you tell me %your last love story
Last Line: In spite of yourself %again becoming
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


LATE HALF MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late half moon %high over head
Last Line: In the moonfilled dawn
Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Owls; Space And Space Travel


LATE NOVEMBER, THE COMING OF WINTER AT STATE STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down on state street %the locust and maple trees
Last Line: And the sun fell behind %the ohio's escarpment
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LATER HISTORY OF THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear miss violet
Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear
Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Grief; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel


LAUGHING AT MYSELF FOR LAZING AROUND AT WEST LAKE, by YUAN MEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It takes a lot of bamboo strips to make a little sail
Last Line: I stopped off first down in the country, to grab my good old friends
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai
Subject(s): Lakes; Sailors And Sailing; Travel; Zen Buddhism


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


LAWS OF GRAVITY, by AMY SCATTERGOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the sky fell down in parachutes
Last Line: Onto the stone tablet ground
Subject(s): Moon; Sky; Space And Space Travel; Stars


LAY OF THE CID: THE CID'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They spake these words and starightway the tent ungathered then
Last Line: Most solemnly that I will chant a thousand masses here
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Escapes; Horseback Riding; Travel


LAY OF THE CID: THE FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And now the prayer is over and the mass in its due course
Last Line: The god who gave us spirits shall give us aid also
Subject(s): Absence; Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Grief; Travel


LE SACRE-COEUR, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is dark up here on the heights
Subject(s): Paris, France; Travel


LEAP YEAR, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the language of the spirit
Last Line: Of not knowing the ending
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


LEAR'S ADVENTURES ON HORSEBACK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: L(ear) & k(night) leave frascati-july 28th 1842.-villa taverna
Last Line: K. & l. Are attacked by several very venomous dogs in the vicinity %of colonna
Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Travel


LEAVING AN UNKNOWN CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That mutt with ribs showing
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


LEAVING HOME, PITTSBURGH 1966, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the gray sky and the gray river
Last Line: Our tongues are making long vowels, %slowing, warming to our task
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LEAVING LOGANSPORT, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She walks along the tracks toward bloomington, an idea in mind, mostly
Last Line: Inside her. I can't see her face for the hat
Subject(s): Travel; Women


LEAVING LORAINE, OH, by DONNA J. LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stop just outside loraine
Last Line: Lose themselves in the maze of mangroves
Subject(s): Ohio; Travel


LEAVING SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bus driver stops to pick plums
Last Line: Our hearts are no longer our own
Subject(s): Buses; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel


LEAVING SATURN, by MAJOR L. JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skyrocketed
Last Line: Railroad, dancing in a bed %of living gravestones
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


LEAVING THE FIELDS, by MARGARET J. HOEHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother's hands were maps of the sweltering valley
Last Line: Loss. She was strong and lean; candescent from within
Subject(s): Fields; Greyhounds; Mothers; Travel


LEGEND, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He came from a land that didn't need words
Last Line: It's for you and you haven't come yet
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LENGTHENING LIGHT, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My shadow over the plaza is growing long
Last Line: The beautiful lengthening light
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


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


LESSER EVIL, by ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Empty as death and slow as pain
Subject(s): Travel


LESSONS IN THE DESERT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wodaabe aren't allowed to read
Last Line: From getting lost in the lines of the page
Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Guests; Travel


LET MY CASSIA BOAT, by KEJU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let my cassia boat be tied
Last Line: Alone, I'll take my boat across
Subject(s): Boats; Solitude; Travel


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


LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you could only hear the chatter
Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them
Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel


LETTER FROM MEXICO, by HOMERO ARIDJIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Invisible ancestors %walk with us
Last Line: Move toward transparency
Variant Title(s): Letters From Mexic
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Letters; Travel


LETTER FROM RUSSIA. TO SPENCER, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should now forget, or not remember thee
Last Line: And so may you deem of the great, by reading of the least
Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George
Subject(s): Travel


LETTER FROM SMYRNA TO HIS SISTERS AT CRUX-EASTON, by THOMAS LISLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hero who to smyrna bay
Last Line: While his, as all mankind agrees, though wrote with care, are wrote with ease
Subject(s): Travel; Turkey


LETTER FROM THE OLD SOD, by DENNIS MICHAEL MALONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear brother: %it is now drawing near xmas
Last Line: Wishing ye all a very merry xmas %your fond sister
Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Postal Service; Travel; Writing And Writers


LETTER TO GEORGE GROVE, SELS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hasten to inform you that in a wood very near here, there are toad
Last Line: Stomach being delicate
Subject(s): Travel


LETTER TO GRAHAM AND ANNA, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To graham and anna: from the arctic gate
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Travel


LETTER TO KATHY FROM A FRIGATE AT SEA, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ship is dark. Red light echoes
Last Line: And deliver my letters by hand
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LETTER TO MRS STUART WORTLEY (THE MOON JOURNEY), by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear mrs stuart wortley
Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Travel


LETTER TO NORA DECIE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear nora
Last Line: Way round cape matapan & so to the piraeus as fast as we can
Subject(s): Guests; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel


LETTER TO RICHARD HUGO FROM DRUMCLIFF, by JAMES J. MCAULEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dick, this kind of travel is cheap enough
Last Line: Getting pissed off at xerxes, as you say. Best, jim
Subject(s): Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Tourists; Travel


LETTER TO THE EARL OF MIDDLETON, by GEORGE ETHEREGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since love and verse, as well as wine
Variant Title(s): The Verse
Subject(s): Travel


LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 HOME: KUAA PUEBLO, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You would have loved this
Last Line: Will tell which fork I chose
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LETTERS HOME: SPRING STORM, SANTA FE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You would have hated this. Cold
Last Line: I'll stay in the sun
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LETTERS TO YESENIN: 17, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


LEVANT, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gum, oats and syrup
Subject(s): Travel


LEVANT, by FYNES MORYSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To thee, dear henry morison
Last Line: Hath left this fading memory, %for monuments and all must die
Subject(s): Middle East; Travel


LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs
Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips


LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs
Last Line: Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks
Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel


LIBERATOR, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is five years old, wearing pink ruffles and shiny
Last Line: She will never escape
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


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 CASUALTIES, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light things falling - I think of rain
Last Line: Casual as rain, as snow, as leaves? %did a few tears fall?
Subject(s): Travel


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


LIGHTHOUSE IN MAINE, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It might be anywhere
Subject(s): Travel


LIGHTNING RIDES, by P. WOLNY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


LIGHTS AMONG REDWOOD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the streams here, ledge to ledge
Last Line: At their rosy immanence
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Travel


LIGIA, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The family sleeps. Their hammocks
Last Line: Where he has spread them to dry
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


LIMITED, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


LINE 471 DOWNTOWN LA, by SUE CAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her breasts %were inverted
Last Line: The jingle of bus money %in my pocket
Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Los Angeles; Travel


LINES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As farming and evening
Last Line: The council to abandon
Subject(s): Travel


LINES OF THE HAND, by JULIO CORTAZAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: From a letter thrown on the table a line comes which runs
Last Line: Close around the butt of a revolver
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel


LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego"
Last Line: But keep their sister angel there
Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women


LINES WRITTEN BEFORE SEEING AN EX-LOVER WHO HAS BECOME A SEX THERAPIST, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's curious what advice %he gives his clients
Last Line: And mouth the words good-night
Subject(s): Farewell; Restaurants; Seduction; Travel


LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF LA PEROUSE'S VOYAGES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


LINOLEUM, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've just embarked
Last Line: Without first strangling that bookseller
Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry And Poets; Travel


LION-HUNT, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mount - mount for the hunting - with musket and spear
Subject(s): Travel


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


LITTLE HOUSE IS CLOSED UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fists posed to knock-we freeze. Are we ready for happiness?
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


LITTLE SATELLITE, by JANE W. KROWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a little satellite
Last Line: I would only soar from sight %if I could return each night
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic
Last Line: & took a 9:06 train up to cambridge
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Air Travel; London


LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hardly slept across the north atlantic
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Air Travel; London


LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway
Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel


LONG DISTANCE CALL 3/95, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm raining in my soul here
Last Line: They are forging for its long last days
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


LOOKING AT AN ENAMOURED FOUNTAIN, by NIKOS-ALEXIS ASLANOGLOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night I'll go off on an endless journey. I'll nestle
Last Line: Night we shall love each other forever. Like the sea %and the sky
Subject(s): Love; Travel


LOOKING AT YOUR FACE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking at your face / now you have become ready to die
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


LOOKING AT YOUR FACE, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking at your face %now you have become ready to die
Last Line: The white chiselings of the poem %in the white stone
Subject(s): Travel


LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Full 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


LOS VIEJITOS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They leer from market stalls
Last Line: They will overwhelm us all
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


LOST BY WAY OF TCHIN-TABARDEN, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nomads are said to know their way by an exact spot in the sky
Last Line: Out of balance, untaught; ready for something called home
Subject(s): Geography; Home; Travel


LOST LETTERS: 2, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You hand me your sea bag
Last Line: My soul into a warm quilt
Subject(s): Letters; Travel; Writing And Writers


LOST LETTERS: 3, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already it is cool enough
Last Line: The whistling buoy that warns %when rocks are near
Subject(s): Letters; Sea; Travel


LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full 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 Full 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


LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: At docks?
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel


LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are afraid
Last Line: Will crash or glide across the sky %as if the sky knows what is written underneath its skin
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Airplane Accidents; Danger; Health; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Travel


LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


LOVE'S VICISSITUDES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


LOW-LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A railroad and a river and a road
Last Line: Of the railroad and the river and the road
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; War


LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


LUNARDI'S SECOND FLIGHT FROM GLASGOW DESCRIBED, by ROBERT GALLOWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hardy seaman, when ashore
Last Line: And then he's sure to get his pakes, when on his bum
Subject(s): Air Travel; Glasgow, Scotland


LYDFORD JOURNEY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day
Last Line: But mad dogs and englishmen %go out in the midday sun
Subject(s): England; Travel


MADRID, IOWA, by RON IKAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On elm and main a dreamy cur has recollected
Subject(s): Travel


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


MAHABALIPURAM, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All alone from his dark sanctum the lingam fronts, affronts the sea
Last Line: Our ageing limbs respond to those ageless limbs in the rock %reliefs. Relief is the word
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): India; Temples; Travel


MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains
Last Line: And did a thousand years go by in vain? %and does another thousand start again?
Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii


MAINE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd
Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


MAINE, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving north at sunset, we were sure we'd
Last Line: Out of the wilderness and we were much obliged
Subject(s): Maine (state); Night; Travel


MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO MR WILLIAM BOYD FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...Getting away was a bit dodgy
Last Line: Chimneys guardians whose charges all have left
Subject(s): Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel; Villages


MAIRI'S DRAFTS: ICELAND, 1410, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will be the last wedding %in this place we have tried to make a home
Last Line: Put his hand into my furs I burned wonderfully
Subject(s): Iceland; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


MAIRI'S DRAFTS: OSLO, 1085, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Olaf and erik go south when the sun
Last Line: I know I love the old gods more
Subject(s): Farewell; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


MAKING FODDER, by LINDA BROCKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near the house at the top of the hill I stopped
Last Line: To mark the place I'm going this time, if I'm right
Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Travel


MAKING UP THE PAST, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This never happened and yet I want the memory
Last Line: I will keep coming back to all my imagined life
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MAMI AND GAUGUIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gauguin's barebreasted girls %hung above the sideboard
Last Line: Signing my name with the flourish %of an artist on her canvas
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MAN IN THE LARGE AND GLITTERING HAT, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinks the stars flurried down
Last Line: The hat, like a galaxy, on its peg
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


MAN JIANG HONG: SENT TO SU'AN UPON APPROACHING THE CAPITAL, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The willow bank leans aslant
Last Line: And drink a sad cup alone
Subject(s): Travel


MAN OF TASTE, by WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the coarse picture charms his eyes
Subject(s): Travel


MAN WITH THE GOLDEN EYE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the nun who studied in the jagiellonian
Last Line: While I spoke to a tourist, %while I kept looking at you
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel


MAN'S PLANS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat beside me by the fire, and chattered
Last Line: "abroad,"" and didn't need to take his wad."
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Urban Life


MANITOU, by RON IKAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer is the perfect metaphysics
Subject(s): Travel


MAP, by ATSURO RILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daddy goes %trolling and trawling and crawfishing and crabbing and
Last Line: Buried half-pints from the woods
Subject(s): Geography; Hunting; Travel


MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was over you yesterday
Last Line: I couldn't tell you
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel


MAP FOR LONG DISTANCES, by ELEONORE SCHONMAIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is all sharp edges and heated
Last Line: Breeze pushes loose %the tangled winter days
Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Winter


MAPPARIUM, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In geography class we learn the world
Last Line: I'll take this globe as my own
Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps; Travel


MAPS, by ALBERTO BLANCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's start at the beginning
Last Line: Nothing has set foot in a map %nothing is written in poetry
Subject(s): Geography; Islands; Maps; Travel


MARCO POLO TRAVELLED FAR, by CLARENCE DAY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sailors And Sailing; Travel


MARI MAGNO; OR TALES ON BOARD, SELS., by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


MARSDEN HARTLEY PREDICTS THE INTERSTATES, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Square backs and air pressure - humid new york city
Last Line: Each dull gray line undulate and surge from point to point
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MARTHE MARY, by MAGGIE MORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My parlor here is aachen fronts on heilplatz
Last Line: A mirthless scene imprisons us in heilplatz
Subject(s): Travel


MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The plastic safety card
Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


MATCHMAKER IN FLIGHT, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Until I saw the stewardess's legs
Last Line: The fuel is low, you've got to land %on solid ground. That's all your fare is worth
Subject(s): Air Travel


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


MEANING OF TAQUITOS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She flips bits of meat into small limp
Last Line: Red? A few moments. Thousands of years
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


MEASURE, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Motion on the seas
Last Line: Signets to authencity and foremost authority
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel


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


MEDITATION ON TODAY'S LIMIT OF PLEASURE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes the cicadas come riding in wild
Last Line: The hint of mercy saying we can't stand anymore %this song this sun this blue these cicadas
Subject(s): Leadership; Pennsylvania; Pleasure; Travel


MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 3. LIDO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


MEETING OF CULTURES, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Iced with a vanilla
Last Line: Russian shades out of old slow novels, %lengthened the afternoon
Subject(s): Travel


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


MEN AT WORK, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All summer long men appear
Last Line: They can begin to talk
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Travel


MEN FISHING IN THE ARNO, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I do not know what they are catching
Subject(s): Travel


MENDOCINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could lose myself in great bursts of work
Last Line: Something reusable like leftovers, %bouillabaisse perhaps
Subject(s): Maps; Mendocino, California; Travel


MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were writing on rock
Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


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


MESSAGES, by RUTH STONE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of grazing cattle, / this range is heavy with tires
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


MESSAGES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Space flattens to a photograph
Last Line: A painting by a man named whistler
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


METAPHOR, by CHIAO-JAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tao: at the root, there's no me
Last Line: So I know I really mean that
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Zen Buddhism


METRO, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are platforms platforms all over the earth
Last Line: They come from one planet, one planet, one. %slappity-slap. Over and out
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Commuters; Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads; Travel


METROPOLITAN, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


MEXICO, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have lived here before but always
Last Line: For fear. Yes I am coming home
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


MIAMI: 1.DIXIE HIGHWAY, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miami the sun
Last Line: The buzz of a hummingbird
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Cuba; Miami, Florida; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


MIDWESTERN AUTUMN, by IMRE ORAVECZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun still shines warmly
Last Line: To the recent immigrants
Subject(s): Guests; Presidents, United States; Roads; Tourists; Travel


MIGRATION, by HANNAH EKBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every summer they bundled us
Last Line: Thick and sure between our fingers
Subject(s): Appalachia; Illinois; Migration; Mountains; Travel


MIKE AND I HAVE OUR BEST TALKS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Down main the desperate strains of 'satisfaction' approaching
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIKE AND I PRETEND WE'RE MARRIED, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mike and I look at each other, his gaze is the first to falter
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIKE AND I TOUR BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Men and women who died by the truths that they believed in
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MIRANDA, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my window I watch the flurries whirl
Last Line: Is rain and wind, grimacing under its weight
Subject(s): Memory; Snow; Travel


MISSING MEMPHIS' DESIRE SIGNS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up from the hollow storefronts and caverns
Last Line: With thoughts of people bound for memphis
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MISSING MISSIVES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fellini's amarcord, the idiot
Last Line: Your heart, your lips, your loins %to me-or so you say
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MISSING MY DAUGHTER, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This wall-paper has lines that rise
Last Line: Or on a white page, a white poem. %the roses raced around her name
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Travel


MISSIONARY, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One in a billion, I would say
Last Line: A team of survivors hunting, %dreaming, gathering the edge
Subject(s): Missionaries And Missions; Nome, Alaska; Travel


MISTRESS OF NOTHING, by OLIVIA MACIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Essence presses the breeze from the sea
Last Line: Quietly murmurs 'I am mistress of nothing.'
Subject(s): Travel


MITSRAYIM, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A country of the sultan of jinns where he secretly escaped
Last Line: Mitsrayim. Forty days. He has grown his hair. He likes his loneliness
Subject(s): Exiles; Sea Voyages; Travel


MOMENT IN ARCADIA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The landscape is painted
Last Line: The always blinder painted eye %sees it and writes
Subject(s): Arcadians; Monuments; Paintings And Painters; Tourists; Travel


MOMENTS WITH MS. GOLIGHTLY, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: White cake and glass after glass of dry champagne
Last Line: As if to judge them, she waits for what I have to say
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


MONDAY MORNING IN THE PLAZA DE LAS ARMAS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tiny plastic soldiers dangle
Last Line: Comes up, rock softly, like lullabies
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


MONKEY BUSINESS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You send me to read the latest
Last Line: The monkey business of the human heart
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


MOON GATHERING, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And they will gather by the well
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


MORNING AFTER, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday morning, blues on the radio
Last Line: And all the house is fast asleep
Variant Title(s): Lost And Foun
Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Travel


MORRISON'S, 1968, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the riviera beach black morning %where the secret cold is hidden
Last Line: To the stockroom. One more day, he thinks
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this tile
Subject(s): Jews; Travel; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


MOSCOW, by JESSY RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doorman thinks I look like anna karenina
Last Line: Whispering to me in our little moscow bed
Subject(s): Hotels; Moscow; Travel


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


MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over
Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women


MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over
Last Line: I am one small woman in a great space, %temporarily free andclear. %I am by myself, climbing into my
Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women


MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon
Last Line: Of that slim yellow mountain lion
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel


MOUNTAIN-PASS, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This mountain-pass on the way to akra, this road that lost itself
Last Line: Once more make something that could resemble a meaning?
Subject(s): Language; Travel


MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains!
Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved!
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel


MOURN NOT FOR VENICE - LET HER REST, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Travel


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the
Last Line: In snow, if all that you did was get out of the car you'd never %get there
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel


MRS. GREEN, by DAVID HUDDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the screen door
Subject(s): Travel


MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


MUFF, by SUSAN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Made from a piece of her
Last Line: Brand-new pair of shoes
Subject(s): Family Life; Shopping; Travel


MULE DRIVERS, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mule driver, you go fabulously glazed in sweat
Last Line: Its brute toward the andes, %the occidentals of eternity
Subject(s): Romance; Travel


MULLY OF MOUNTOWN, SELS., by WILLIAM KING                       
Subject(s): Animals; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Travel


MUTED GOLD, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father died just as my plane touched down
Last Line: My father died just as my plane touched down
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Death; Memory; Tragedy; Travel


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 FATHER TRAVELS, by DILIP CHITRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father travels on the late evening train
Last Line: Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass
Subject(s): Fathers; Travel


MY FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Into the sky %like a star ed their heads
Subject(s): Booksellers; Central Park, New York City; Poetry And Poets; Travel


MY LAST AFTERNOON IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then ordering her home, he breaks my trance
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


MY LIFE ROLLS BEFORE ME IN A DATSUN, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the way home from new plague, arizona
Last Line: Which I always carry
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory; Travel


MY MOTHER GROWING OLD, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shortly after she had to move into the nursing home
Last Line: I said goodbye and we parted
Subject(s): Aging; Mothers; Travel


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 MOUNTAINS, by JOAQUIN GOMEZ VERGARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am far from my country
Last Line: O my beautiful mountains!
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MY TRIP DAORBA, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have just returned from a foreign tour
Last Line: As I rode backwards in compartments in the niart and in carriages sitting on the taes-pmuj
Subject(s): Travel


MY TRIP; FOR ROBERT CREELEY, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full 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


MY WHEEL IS IN THE DARK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Flinging the problem back, at you and I
Subject(s): Travel


MYTH OF THE PERFECT MOVE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I moved in a dazzling black taxi
Last Line: If she decides, to come back this way again
Variant Title(s): In Search Of The Perfect Mov
Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Postal Service; Travel


NAENIAE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


NATA NATAL, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I forgive you, lima, for having bred me
Last Line: That we've never known
Subject(s): Cities; Patriotism; Peru; Travel


NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover
Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel


NATIVE TOURIST IN HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daughter is asleep with her chin propped in her palm
Last Line: In my clandestine homeland
Subject(s): Americans In Europe; Hungary; Tourists; Travel


NEAR THE AIRPORT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleek, keen, so now - superbo jets that go
Subject(s): Air Travel


NETWORK OF ROADS, by JOHANNES EDFELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old village roads are the landscape's fine sinuous net
Last Line: Where all our roads will some day end
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Roads; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rusted up industrial natures you spy
Subject(s): Railroads; New Jersey; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


NEW JOURNEY, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must travel again
Last Line: The untracked jungles
Subject(s): Jungles; Travel


NEW WORLD, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tia ana and tia fofi worked at la factoria. Tia
Last Line: Tia fofi rose as if they also agreed with what %had become of me
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the night, %among the crystalline thresholds of dream
Last Line: To the austere language of absence
Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Travel


NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep
Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdowb spank
Subject(s): Air Travel


NIGHT FLIGHT, OVER OCEAN, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet fish tinned in the innocence of sleep
Last Line: Dim swimmers borne toward the touchdown spank
Subject(s): Air Travel


NIGHT IN THE RED SEA, by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The strong hot breath of the land is lashing
Subject(s): Travel


NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as the train bears west
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as the train bears west
Last Line: I stay up half the night %to see the land I love
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


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 ON THE QUEEN MARY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Counting heads to new york
Last Line: Your own voice picks up someone's else's
Subject(s): Greyhounds; Travel


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have forgotten why I undertook this voyage
Last Line: Our eyes on yonder solitary star
Subject(s): Nature; Night; Travel


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


NIGHT: LANDING AT NEWARK, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're sinking into beds of lights that
Subject(s): Travel


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep on going, on and on
Last Line: Let it go now, say no more! %just eat well and take care
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Travel


NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full 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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A montparnasse august %with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones
Last Line: As we do in their blue shade
Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel


NO PHOTOS OF COSTA DEL SOL, by DEIRDRE DWYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I admit it - I'm no photographer
Last Line: Which can also be ours
Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Travel


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


NOCTURNE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take my place in the insomniac's village
Last Line: 7 a.M., the blue gums edge-lit, %almost honed, almost revealing
Subject(s): Absence; Jerusalem; Postage Stamps; Travel; Villages


NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight
Last Line: Blinking and defecating
Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto
Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument


NOMAD'S STORY, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We would like to have heard his story, to have spent an afternoon with
Last Line: Clothes. He was gone in a week. We never spoke with him, or knew his %name
Subject(s): Farewell; Hotels; Tourists; Travel


NOMADIC LIFE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I come back with the cups of tea
Last Line: The other woman %we each might have been
Subject(s): Friendship; Guests; Travel


NOMBRES, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We name our streets for desire. Calzada de la indepencia rotates
Last Line: Drink cerveza into the candled night and celebrate that life is short
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


NON-VERBS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jumping, running, boating
Last Line: Uncorking, signalling by semaphore
Subject(s): Camping; Explorers; Travel


NOPALES, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They start before dawn, baskets airy on their backs
Last Line: Over the hills is the light of miracles
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


NORDEN, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our daughter, jennifer, comes home from her trip to west germany. She
Last Line: On the table. People look up. Converstion stops. When you take light %from the candle a sailor dies
Subject(s): Boats; Germany; Harbors; Travel


NORTH FROM DEADWOOD, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm driving home through our national grasslands
Last Line: Just standing there and weeping
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Driving And Drivers; Indianapolis, Indiana; Travel


NORTH POLE, by ROBERT LUNDAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Science for the non-scientist
Last Line: Labled 'north pole' %and catching the light
Subject(s): North Pole; Travel


NOTES TO SELF BEFORE A JOURNEY, by ANNE CAYLOR MACALPIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When getting ready for a trip
Last Line: To sleep with open windows
Subject(s): Scotland; Travel


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


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


NUDES, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Manet degas in a book
Last Line: Nude room I'm in the middle of
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


NUGATORY, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little roads I travel
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


NURSING MOTHER ON THE DORCHESTER-HARVARD TRAIN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's good to leave the south end if only for a day. Good to trust where
Last Line: Rocking of the train?
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Roxbury, Massachusetts; Subways; Travel


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


OAK AND THE OLIVE, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven years lived in italy leave me convinced
Subject(s): Travel


OAR, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anyone finding a smashed oar
Last Line: And renounced the possibilities of the oar
Subject(s): Rowing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch how other things travel
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OCTOBER, by STEVEN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whole world dances
Subject(s): Travel


ODE, by WILLIAM BECKFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: To orisons, the midnight bell
Subject(s): France; Travel


ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, / belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes
Last Line: Do please please circle
Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul
Subject(s): Air Travel


ODE TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by JOSHUA BECKMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, %belem, durban, lima, xai-xai planes
Last Line: Tiny planes please circle oh tiny planes %do please please circle
Alternate Author Name(s): Beckman, Joshua Saul
Subject(s): Air Travel


ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O astronauts!
Last Line: You are pushing the bright new shiny buttons of your machine!
Subject(s): Apollo; Astronauts; Mythology - Classical; Planets; Space And Space Travel


ODE TO THE AVOCADO, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coddled in my palm, bigger than a hen's egg
Last Line: Your green flesh tastes smooth as butter on the tongue
Subject(s): Fruit; Mexico; Travel


ODE TO THE LAKE OF GENEVA, by WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From alpine heights where clad in snow
Subject(s): Travel


ODERBRUCH, by JURGEN BECKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Camera broken? What a cold spell, and
Last Line: Came back. They could tell tales
Subject(s): Travel


ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 LETTERS, MISS MILLAY, by JESSICA GRANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you wrote about hotel ikao to your mother
Last Line: My thickets, too? And will you finally stop that damn chariot
Subject(s): Letters; Travel


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            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OFTEN I TRAVEL AT NIGHT AND AM SURPRISED, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are hoaxes, don't forget the earth is round
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Travel


OH THOU - WHOSE GREAT IMPERIAL MIND COULD RAISE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


OHIO RIVER SUNDAY, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I liked to say %et cum spritu tuo %and imagine
Last Line: Joined the doves, and drifted off to god
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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 LAKE AGASSIZ, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We knew this valley was an ice-age lake
Last Line: With small whirlpools of milky light
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Lakes; Mountains; Travel; Valleys


OLD MAN SLEEPS LIKE THE DEAD, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come down, fisher of men, see if you can catch us again!'
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the hour of the dew
Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel


OLD SURVEY ROAD, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the land slopes
Last Line: Some yet to heal, %others become rings
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


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


OLEASTER, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each night for seven nights beyond the gulf
Subject(s): Travel


OLIFANTS CAMP, by W. PATRICK MCCAFFERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To olifants camp we came
Last Line: Set on the sheltered veldt
Subject(s): Africa; Travel


OMBU, by LUIS L. DOMINGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every territory on earth has a conspicuous feature
Last Line: Beautiful growth, that rises to the clouds, like the lighthouse of %that sea
Subject(s): Argentina; Memory; South America; Travel


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 A WALK, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today I go the the zoo
Last Line: Toward the street
Subject(s): Animals; Tourists; Travel; Zoos


ON DESCENDING THE RIVER PO, by WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As down the rapid po I chanced to glide
Subject(s): Travel


ON FIRST LOOKING INTO MICHAEL GRANT'S CITIES OF VESUVIUS, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In battledress, yes I was there. That dramatic great wartime eruption
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Rome, Italy; Travel


ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 MISSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE MOON, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer I paid no attention
Last Line: Drifting toward a history all my own
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 NOT SHOPLIFTING LOUISE BOGAN'S THE BLUE ESTUARIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf
Last Line: And I put the book back
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dramatic staircases leading nowhere
Last Line: Some rubbing of the unreal remains
Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel


ON PONKAWTASSET, SINCE, WE TOOK OUR WAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round?
Subject(s): Travel; Stars


ON PREPARING FOR A JOURNEY, by ARIMA NO MIKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the bench of iwashiro
Last Line: Now that I journey, %it is heaped on pasania leaves
Subject(s): Travel


ON REACHING BUZEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beacons of the fishing-boats
Last Line: I would see the hills of yamato
Subject(s): Travel


ON SEEING MY BIRTHPLACE FROM A JET AIRCRAFT, by JOHN SLEIGH PUDNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nursery boast
Last Line: Imagine that your cap's on back to front
Subject(s): Air Travel; Children


ON THE 747, by MALENA MORLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: As soon as I sat down
Last Line: Returning to what she said %she could not imagine
Subject(s): Air Travel; Children


ON THE AISLE, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye to maui - to orchids on our plates
Last Line: And he runs for it
Subject(s): Air Travel; Farewell; Parting


ON THE BANKS OF THE DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was mid july. A handsome day
Last Line: Facing the darkened field and desert stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Nature; Spain; Travel


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 EVE OF DEPARTURE (FROM NEW YORK), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now in the red and opalescent sun
Last Line: Against the wind and sun that struggle, madly
Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Travel


ON THE JOURNEY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From mitsu beach
Last Line: White waves of the open sea
Subject(s): Travel


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 PERSEUS AND MEDUSA OF BENVENUTO CELLINI, AT FLORENCE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In what fierce spasms upgathered, on the plain
Subject(s): Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571); Travel


ON THE ROAD TO THEBES, by TIM ROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hey, stranger, you know where you are? Asks the fat guy
Last Line: Might actually know the answer
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


ON THE ROADS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 TIP OF THE TONGUE', by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the tip of the tongue
Last Line: Territories of our skin
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Montana; Rivers; Travel


ON THE WATER OF MY MISTAKES, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vaguely deserving my fate, %I knew another chance wouldn't save me
Last Line: That was always shining. %how easy this is
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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


ON TRAVELING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who would be a traveler
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Travel


ONE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: If someone said all kids would die
Last Line: The one %who could survive
Subject(s): Travel


ONE FOR THE ROAD, by NANCY WILLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the old bicycle the plumber brought me
Last Line: Bearing the magic child across the stream
Subject(s): Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Labor And Laborers; Travel


ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 97, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These days, one must fly - but where to?
Last Line: Transformed in the end into poppies
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Air Travel


ONE MARCH ANIMAL'S DESIRE, by ANNE CORAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Warm days, we punch the snow with our footsteps
Last Line: As I make my way to the river
Subject(s): Desire; Travel


ONE OF LOS MUCHOS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Accusing with his silence, %wanting, finding me wanting
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


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


ONE WORD, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have in my throat one word
Last Line: And my flesh abroad with no soul
Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Travel


ONLY TWO SUITCASES, by MARCEL BEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's there in the suitcase, you say, is known
Last Line: Pose the childlike question just as soundlessly. What for
Subject(s): Travel


OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear voyager: %this is to thank you for
Last Line: Sincerely yours, %a fan
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


ORANGE NIGHTS, COLD STARS, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hippies with money %were buying subdivided orange groves
Last Line: Like settlers homesteading acres of dreams
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


ORGASM OVER MT. ARARAT, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't suppose our stars are crossed
Last Line: We fly. Bumper to bumper. Backseat to the sky
Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Sex; Superman


ORLANDO FURIOSO: CANTO 34. ASTOLFO VISITS THE MOON, by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twere infinit to tell what wondrous things
Last Line: As that one substance all the other past
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


OSLOBODJENJE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first year of the siege
Last Line: And there were many days without bread
Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Tourists; Travel


OTRANTO, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sunset from the top of the stair watching
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OUR BRIEF TRIP TO THE CAPITAL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But passing the scene of our fight, all I longed for was happiness
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


OUR GROUND TIME HERE WILL BE BRIEF, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue landing lights make
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Air Travel


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 LOVE OUT OF TOWN, by LAURA GOLDEN BELLOTTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oxnard not by-the-sea but
Last Line: Glorified in hotel kisses
Subject(s): Hearts; Honeymoons; Love; Travel


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 Analysis             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 IN THE COUNTRY, BACK HOME, by JEFF DANIEL MARION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You round a curve
Subject(s): Travel


OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains


OUT ON THE LAKE RETURNING LATE, by LIN HO-CHING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pillowed on the bulwark
Last Line: Chickens and dogs %stir up a racket
Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Zen Buddhism


OUTER HEBRIDES, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it's so you're longing to the outer hebrides
Last Line: And you're on the way
Subject(s): Islands; Ships And Shipping; Travel; Writing And Writers


OUTSIDE THE CROWD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The staff slips from the hand
Last Line: The metal of the plane is breathing; %sinuously it swims through the stars
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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 WALL: BERLIN, MAY 1975, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He will go over and tell the king
Last Line: Yet the afternoon sun falls upon faces %less tame than tigers
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War; Travel


OVER THE WATER WI' CHAIRLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


OWED TO AMERICA, by LAWRENCE DURRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America america I see your giant image stir
Subject(s): Travel


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


PAID VACATION, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've decided to go away forever
Last Line: Lives in exile
Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Travel; Vacation


PAINTED DESERT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we got to the painted desert
Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pictures; Roads; Tourists; Travel


PAINTED WHORE, THE MASK OF DEADLY SIN, by WILLIAM LITHGOW    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sweet without fair, and stinking foul within
Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel


PALM TREES, by REX WARNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: These bottle-washer trees that give no shade
Subject(s): Travel


PALMIST, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She touches a stranger's hand, turns it into the light
Last Line: That all of our lines will change
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Strangers; Tourists; Travel


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


PANDAVAS' GAMBLE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Returning from the capitol
Last Line: To go now meant take nothing
Subject(s): Cities; India; Travel


PAPI WORKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The long day spent listening %to homesick hearts
Last Line: They came to hear him say %nada in their mother tongue
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


PARADISE IS NOT A PLACE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bread in our mouths, %lightning in the belly of a whale
Last Line: With gulls flapping gently around our peak
Subject(s): Sex; Travel; United States


PARADISE REVISTED, by JEAN WIGGINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hotel lobby surrounded by massive green plants
Last Line: Consumer of blood and bone
Subject(s): Heaven; Travel


PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly
Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand
Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel


PARAGUAY, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PARIS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver
Last Line: My only belief, what I went there for
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Paris, France; Travel


PARIS PLAN IN HAND, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day you are one and I am, too. Paris city-plan in hand
Last Line: Continuously, we are two
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Paris, France; Restaurants; Seine (river), France; Tourists; Travel


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


PART OF MANDEVIL'S TRAVELS, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mandevil's river of dry jewels grows
Last Line: Adam comes here for; and recites my motto
Subject(s): Travel


PARTCH STATIONS: 14. HE WANDERETH AFTER HIS DEATH, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody likes this music, somebody says
Last Line: I am endeavoring to instill more ferment
Subject(s): Death; Music And Musicians; Travel


PARTCH STATIONS: 9. HE WANDERETH WITH HIS INSTRUMENTS, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisconsin two tons of instruments on his back
Last Line: To del mar for viola and %to l.A. Clothes--
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Travel


PARTHENON, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where they tamed the wild libyan
Subject(s): Parthenon; Travel


PARTITIONS: THE LOT OF BEING COMMON TO ALL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the windowless west wall
Subject(s): Air Travel; Women


PASSAGE, by JENNIFER L. SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Westwardbound, toward winslow
Last Line: Just flying. Just flight
Subject(s): Travel


PASSAGES: AN AFRICAN EXPERIENCE OF THE KIASPORA, by EDWARD BRUCE BYNUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the skull leans eastward
Last Line: The coconut, open its milk, the skull is %discarded, the salt digests
Subject(s): Africa; Travel


PASSENGER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the gate, I sit in a row of blue seats
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


PASSER-BY'S COURTESY, by FREDERIC WANDELERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girlfriends showering on their return
Last Line: Ran past, unnoticed but to god and himself
Subject(s): Travel


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


PASSING THE MASONIC HOME FOR THE AGED, by HERBERT SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter has come to the old folks' home
Subject(s): Travel


PASSING TIME, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I had a boat
Last Line: How I prefer a chosen end: me upon my pony on my boat
Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Travel


PASSION CONCH, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No sun today, the rainy %season barely begun, so
Last Line: Of flame, a gift, %a name. %hua hin thailand
Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mollusks; Seashore; Tourists; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


PEDESTRIAN, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In june, with a gnarled stick in my hand
Last Line: When shall I surprise its melody
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


PEEING ALL OVER THE PENINSULA, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         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


PELUQUERO, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street a man is losing his hair
Last Line: Bright scissors in his forward hand
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


PENSACOLA STREET SUNRISE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new mount zion baptist's %roadside marquee
Last Line: Could take them for holy %but hardly ghosts
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


PEPPERING ROADS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you wish to see roads in perfection
Last Line: Amply pay you for all you have passed!
Subject(s): Nonsense; Roads; Shoes; Travel; Walking


PERFECTIONIST, by ROGER BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our tourist descends a switchback to lakeshore. Split rock lighthouse
Last Line: By evening
Subject(s): Perfection; Tourists; Travel


PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as
Last Line: With their faces shining?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel


PETALS RAINED, by KYERANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Petals rained from the pear trees
Last Line: And return weary of travel
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Travel


PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


PHAROAH, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...Grown. And you used to go to bed with a pharaoh till
Last Line: Ready to bear this monstrous traveler in hashish
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel


PHILADELPHIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU AT THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD IN ASCONA, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far from our village on the other side of the hill, we found the
Last Line: The house of the dead - so full of life and love
Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Death; Photography And Photographers; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Prayer; Stones; Travel


PHOTOGRAPH WITH A QUOTE FROM YAZOO: DEEP IN EACH OTHER'S, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christ is my sex object, therefore I am
Last Line: I made you twitch %and tied you up. We crucified you
Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Travel


PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HUBBLE SPACE OBSERVATORY, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty-thousand trillion
Last Line: Into the riddle of becoming
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel; Stars


PIANO, by LISA RUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red riding hood and her grandmother
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel


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 Analysis             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


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 1. ROAD TRIP, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a good idea to collect as much entrophy as possible
Last Line: It's such a lovely dark, mama,' he says
Subject(s): Geography; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel


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


PILGRIMAGE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Together we pass by. Sleep
Last Line: Together, we pass by the purple %mustards of a cemetery
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel


PIO BAROJA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In london or madrid, geneva or rome
Last Line: He's seen the last petal linger and crash
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel


PISA, by WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the lung' arno, in each stately street
Subject(s): Travel


PLACE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did we get here? My ankle in your hand
Last Line: As in the equation for the rest of our lives
Subject(s): Cities; Driving And Drivers; Streets; Travel; Washington, D.c.


PLACES I WOULD LIVE, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not paris. Not london
Last Line: Like rebecca. Yes. Like that
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Travel


PLATANILLOS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mira, the child says, pointing
Last Line: Blood comes off on her hands
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


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


PLAZA AND THE BURNING ORANGE TREES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: See roaming through these old streets
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Cities; Memory; Streets; Travel


PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION, SELS., by MARK AKENSIDE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


PLOT OF A SUPPOSITION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I had inspected the interior of the wardrobe, he said
Last Line: When I had remembered to have supposed
Subject(s): Homecoming; Hotels; Travel


PLOT TO MOVE THE AUTO-INDUSTRY TO THE SOUTHERN RIM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For several decades
Subject(s): Travel


POCKET POEM, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


POCKET POEM, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
Subject(s): Travel


POEM AS CARAVANSARY ERECTED TO ACCOMMODATE A CARAVAN OF SOUVENIRS, by ELISABETH BORCHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here disembarked to rest from torment and drudgery
Last Line: Of a never ending journey and vanishing happiness
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel


POEM AS STRIPTEASE, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a difference of opinion
Subject(s): Travel


POEM IN THE RIVER, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someday you'll find this
Last Line: And I'm throwing it off the bridge
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


POEM TO SHOW THE TROUBLE THAT BEFELL HIM, by THOMAS PRYS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I followed, o splendid season
Last Line: Before I will pillage or part %buy a ship, I'll be a shepherd
Variant Title(s): Trouble At Se
Subject(s): Sea; Travel


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


POPPIES, by ROY MARTIN SCHEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light in them stands as clear as water
Subject(s): Travel


PORT BOU, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


PORT BOU, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child holds a pet
Last Line: Draw on long needles white threads through my navel
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Guns; Travel


PORT OF CALL: BRAZIL, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We watch the heavy-odoured beast
Last Line: Will breed a new direction through the deep
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Travel


PORTS OF CALL, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sink into the arms of a travel brochure
Last Line: For a slack still eden
Subject(s): Travel


POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE, VILLA STABIA, POMPEII, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: That infatuated moment
Last Line: Of a detail lacking majesty
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Pompeii, Italy; Travel


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


POSTCARD FROM IRELAND, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm here with the last good weather
Last Line: From the underside, but the rafts of geese are already lost, %calling somewhere out in the bay
Subject(s): Birds; Ireland; Travel


POSTCARD FROM THE CENTER OF THE CONTINENT, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The big story from out here
Last Line: You could go almost anywhere
Subject(s): Hotels; North Dakota; Tourists; Travel


POSTCARD FROM TORTOLA, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've never been to tortola
Last Line: That there's singing in the streets
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Travel


POSTCARD TO STEVEN FROM SKYE, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally got here!!! It's as dick says, surpassing
Last Line: Molten sun, but cold, and steams. Love, maggie
Subject(s): Hotels; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists; Travel; Writing And Writers


POSTCARDS FROM EUROPA, by KIMBERLY LYONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dial a red telephone and meow
Last Line: Ponder %accelerating universe
Subject(s): Europe; Memory; Travel


POSTCARDS FROM KODAI, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am once more. Do you remember
Last Line: I suppose %it is the nearest I will get to home
Subject(s): India; Travel


POSTSCRIPT SENT TO A TRAVELER, by BAO LINGHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ever since you went away
Last Line: I'll await your return at the start of spring
Subject(s): Travel


POWER OF DREAMS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You probably don't know this
Last Line: Destinations
Subject(s): Air Travel; Dreams


PRAGUE SPRING, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silent scream? The madigral's top note
Last Line: The last snow of this year's late snow thaw %dribbles as spring saliva down his jaw
Subject(s): Cold War; Prague, Czech Republic; Travel


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


PRAYER OF THE ROAD, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't even know whom this bitterness is for!
Last Line: That rots in my heart!
Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Travel


PREFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't mind a journey through arctic wind
Last Line: But I'd rather leave that man behind
Subject(s): Arctic; Travel; Wind


PRELUDE (BOOKS 1-14), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze
Last Line: In beauty exalted, as it is itself %of quality and fabric more divine
Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Sleep; Travel


PREPARING FOR EXPORT, by PRISCILLA BECKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not live in niger, but once
Last Line: The twentieth century. %watch me
Subject(s): Moving And Movers; Travel


PREPOSITIONS OF JET TRAVEL, by PETER DALE SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dawn so clear
Last Line: From my left eye %it is fifty below
Subject(s): Air Travel


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


PROGRESS, by CONNIE MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sawmill is here already
Subject(s): Travel


PROOF, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Papi brought home a puppy
Last Line: Right under our very noses
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


PROSE OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN AND OF LITTLE JEANNE OF FRAN, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back then I was still young
Last Line: City of the incomparable tower the great gibbet and the wheel
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Moscow; Paris, France; Travel


PROVINCIA, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six o'clock. The cathedral blesses
Last Line: Save you from total softening of the brain
Subject(s): Country Life; Peru; Tradition; Travel


PROVING LAKE OKEECHOBEE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We drive below the sod earth rim
Last Line: And the unseen geography of our lives
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 And Poets; Tourists; Travel


PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see
Last Line: These boundaries were always
Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel


PYRAMIDS AT TSUNTSINTSAN, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tried to rise, like an old man
Last Line: Til the pyramids struck us dumb
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


QUARTIER, by MARK HALLIDAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You go straight ahead for about ten blocks
Last Line: Wandering nearly into %the fascinating friendly shops
Subject(s): Cities; Travel


QUATRAIN WRITTEN ON THE ROAD, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: White strands of hair in my mirror
Last Line: As I head on toward chang-an
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everyone seemed more american
Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country
Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women


QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
Last Line: And here, or there -- no. Should we have stayed at home, %wherever that may be?
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel


QUI'AMIYAT DIKAKAH, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen you far below
Last Line: Until I am the first to die
Subject(s): Birds; Boundaries; Falcons; Tourists; Travel


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


RAJPOOT REBELS, by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the mighty cliffs are frowning
Subject(s): Travel


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


RAMAYANA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You cabled tomorrow I am coming
Last Line: Froze between the moon and me
Subject(s): Bombay, India; Family Life; Travel


RANCHO ARRIBA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rancho arriba is far from the crowds
Last Line: Rancho arriba is a thorn that reminds me, %that reminds them of who I am, %of who we are
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RANOLF AND AMOHIA, SELS., by ALFRED DOMETT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maoris; Travel


RAVENNA, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do I remember of my visit to ravenna
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Travel


READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At this height, kansas / is just a concept
Last Line: Where are we going now?
Subject(s): Air Travel


READING MOBY-DICK AT 30,000 FEET, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At this height, kansas %is just a concept
Last Line: Oh captain, captain! %where are we going now?
Subject(s): Air Travel


REAPING, by JOSEPH WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're a gang or crew of four manning
Last Line: A place on a moving belt above earth with a part scraping it
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


RECOLLECTIONS OF A DAY'S JOURNEY IN SPAIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not less delighted do I call to mind
Subject(s): Travel


REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


RENEWING MY PASSPORT, by JEFFREY HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's only natural, isn't it
Last Line: Addressed to the government
Subject(s): Travel


REPUBLIC OF LONGING, by SIGMAN BYRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of it as a separate country
Last Line: Go home while you still can
Subject(s): Explorers; Travel


REQUIESCAT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


RESIDENTIAL RHYMES, SELS., by OSMAN EDWARDS                       
Subject(s): Japan; Travel


RESPECTFULLY ANSWERING 'DRIFTING ON THE RIVER', by YU HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spring river comes down past white emperor castle
Last Line: As the sun goes down, winds calm on the river, %the dragon sings our and turns back upstream
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Rivers; Travel


REST AT THE MERCY HOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because nature doesn't specialize
Last Line: A momentary rest.
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


RESUME, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nicholas kolumban was born and raised in hungary
Last Line: And let his toes be mistaken %for toy mice
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Hungary; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RESURRECTION, INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun falls through the water
Last Line: And drifts on the tide %south to hamlin's landing
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


RETURN TO CHIANG VILLAGE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaggy red clouds in the west-
Last Line: Facing each other as in dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Reunions; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


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


RETURNING, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother believes %it must be genetic
Last Line: But return like pigeons %whose routes %are unerring, unearned
Subject(s): Travel


REVENGE OF AMERICA, by JOSEPH WARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When fierce pizarro's legions flew
Subject(s): Travel


REVERIE, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


REVIVAL COMES TO KNOXVILLE, 1970, by PARKS LANIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a warm evening, the city is the new jerusalem
Last Line: Unto caesar what is caesar's, and unto god very little at all
Subject(s): Cities; Knoxville, Tennessee; Life; Travel


RHYMES, by FRANK PETTUS STEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were talking about poems he had written
Subject(s): Travel


RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE?, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Full 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


ROAD STOP, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't help wondering how many
Last Line: On the long grade out of town
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


ROAD TO SHU IS HARD, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Behold! How steep! How high!
Last Line: Sideways I look westward and heave a long sigh
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Travel


ROAD TO SHU IS HARD, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A-eee! Shee-yew! Sheeeeee! So dangerous! So high!
Last Line: Edging back, I gaze to the westm long and deep my sighs
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Travel


ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this moorish city %behind the old walls
Last Line: Oh, I can no longer walk with her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Travel


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


ROADTRIP, by MATT ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Funerals of parents
Last Line: With a distant look in %your eyes
Subject(s): Roads; Travel


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


ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tough day on the mesa
Last Line: Since a beginning, and we survive %doubts of an ending
Subject(s): Earth; Stones; Tourists; Travel


ROCK: CHORUSES, SELS., by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I journeyed to the suburbs, and there I was told
Last Line: If the weather is foul we stay at home and reas the papers
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Suburbs; Travel


ROCKINGCHAIR, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We always love the cradle
Subject(s): Chairs; Travel


ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness
Last Line: And inside them all vault opened behind the vault endlessly
Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel


ROOFS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of banged-on tin that never shone
Last Line: The sick water. His eyes are flame
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


ROUTES TO KANSAS CITY STAR, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roanoke park to rosedale park, a few winding blocks
Last Line: Classifieds. 'marketplace.' a make-do hat for the rain
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


RUNE, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the song of your tires on the pavement %the car sliding over
Last Line: It is three frames from a movie %it is the 'less than' sign repeated three times
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Museums; Travel


RUSH HOUR, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


RUSTY REUBEN BOYS, by KATE FARRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rusty reuben boys' band toured
Last Line: You might really love her now
Subject(s): Bands; Love; Music And Musicians; Travel


S .. TALK ON THE VENICE BLVD. BUS HEADING EAST ONE SUMMER, by AKILAH NAYO OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bus stop one I am on the bus
Last Line: And tapped the briefcase %he did own
Subject(s): Buses; Commuters; Travel


SACRED LANE/LA SACRA CORSIA, by PASQUALE VERDICCHIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We felt it %the sisma
Last Line: And back into the place from where %it did not come
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


SAIDA, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your body, turning lightly in bed
Last Line: A unicorn cutting his flesh on the coral
Subject(s): Commuters; Sea; Ships And Shipping; Tourists; Travel


SAINT CLOUD, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel


SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This one woman has been sobbing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Family Life; Love - Loss Of; Relatives


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


SALVATION IN A CATHOLIC COUNTRY, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As we enter gabriel palms
Last Line: How easily we leave %breath behind
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes
Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach
Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky
Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales


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


SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west
Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; Urban Life


SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A red band of light stretches across the west
Last Line: As if these were ruins, as if we were ghosts
Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities


SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations
Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over
Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel


SANTE FE TRAIL, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         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


SARAJEVO, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a taste for burnt, crusty things: food brittle and carboned to black
Last Line: Of what I cannot leave, a body awakening in the contours of waste and disease
Subject(s): Sarajevo, Bosnia; Travel


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


SATELLITE OF LOVE, by JOHN FORBES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like unwound toys or the mind of a stone
Last Line: Tingling aurora, thanks to our huge, electric shoes
Subject(s): Love; Space And Space Travel


SATELLITE PHOTO, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gleaming in its sheath of bluegreen air
Last Line: Islands, a few drops blown to westward
Subject(s): Florida; Islands; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


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, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every saturday
Last Line: By its virtue
Subject(s): Spain - History; Travel; Villages


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 Analysis             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


SCATTERED PSALMS: 13. (SPACE PSALM), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let stars reverse their courses - hallelujah
Last Line: Anecdotes - songs - suspicions - prayers
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


SCENES DE LA VIE DE BOHEME, SELS., by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The coloured lanterns lit the trees, the grass
Subject(s): Travel


SCENES FROM MONTALE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tendered silk which is not the case by anchoring
Last Line: Spilling birds onto
Subject(s): Travel


SCENES OF TRANSLATION, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Local travelling -- excursions -- sight-seeing
Last Line: Moca moco moscas usw etc
Subject(s): Language; Tourists; Translating And Interpreting; Travel


SCENT OF GASOLINE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a child I'd inhale deeply the scent of gasoline
Last Line: Before the needle stops traveling backward-falls %unencumbered, empty, lost
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Gasoline; Roads; Travel


SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM IN AMSTERDAM, by FRANK ORMSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The talk of knifed bodies in the canals
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Hockey; Travel


SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O isles (as byron said) of greece!
Subject(s): Travel


SCIENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million globes awhirl in unlit space
Last Line: At last, the meaning of the master-mind.
Subject(s): Faith; God; Science; Space & Space Travel; Truth; Vision; Belief; Creed; Scientists; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


SCIENCE LESSONS, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our galaxy is a spiral %of rotating arms
Last Line: Into the heart's %inevitable divorce
Subject(s): Physics; Science; Travel; Universe


SEA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What you imagine is my voice, that rustling and complaint
Last Line: And sit down and write
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel


SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         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


SEASHELL SALESMAN, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abalone ashtrays littered with butts
Last Line: Leaves rattled in the offshore breeze
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


SEASON OF THE DEAD: 1. VERGILIAN FORTUNES FROM THE AENEID, by ANDRES ROJAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeping I left my native coast
Last Line: The only crop we had that year was death
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel


SEAT MATE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hate the way the inside of his nostrils twitch
Last Line: So pathetic to think I'm free
Subject(s): Flight; Love; Tourists; Travel


SEED HARVEST, GILROY, CALIFORNIA, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each cold morning we drove
Last Line: Across the map. Petaluma. %mendocino. Albion
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


SEEING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


SENDING OFF MR. YUAN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain settles a light dust in wei city.
Last Line: For west of yang pass you will meet no friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Solitude; Travel


SENTENCES: BRAZIL, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the lone man in his wattle lean-to
Last Line: Edible necklaces %and caged red birds
Subject(s): Brazil; Travel


SENTIMENTALIST, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How hard I tried to be hard
Last Line: Crushed the longings of my sentimental heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Variant Title(s): Son
Subject(s): Travel


SEPTEMBER, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today on chazy lake, a steely gray effluvium spreads
Last Line: I slap the two flies between my note pages to show a %fisherman I know
Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Rivers; Travel


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling
Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers


SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


SETTING PINS, 1966, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Billy and I got a job
Last Line: Bombs drifted like feathers %to the checkered earth below
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


SETTING THE WORLD IN ORDER, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your cambridge winter, %though I couldn't name poetry
Last Line: And leave us looking back at where we had been
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


SEVEN AFTERNOONS: PARKING LOT, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All of a snow
Last Line: Humility: evening comes
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel


SEVENTH DAY OUT, by PHYLLIS STOWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea mist before, beside, behind
Last Line: Hear the hollow the wind whistles through
Subject(s): Sea; Travel


SHADY SIDE OF SUNNYSIDE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe worth the day when folly gave the signal
Last Line: Oh! Woe to graingers ( ) and brignalls!
Subject(s): Durham, England; Travel


SHAGGY DOG STORY, by FRANK PETTUS STEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're rolling on the living room floor
Subject(s): Travel


SHE, THE IMMORTAL FAIRY, APPEARED TO ME SUDDENLY AND WITH HER HARPOON, by MIQUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd board the train
Last Line: Would console me
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


SHEEP PASSING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mayflies hover through the long evening
Last Line: The way they went is all that is still there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sheep; Travel


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


SHELLEY'S HOUSE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou last, o lerici, receive my song
Subject(s): Travel


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


SHUTTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting airborne on the %new york-to-boston shuttle
Last Line: And the shuttle is always crowded
Subject(s): Air Travel; Capp, Al (1909-1979); Cartoons And Cartoonists


SHY SCHOOLGIRL IN PIGTAILS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Just waiting for luz to say the magic word
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SHYNESS, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so the men smile, and I smile back at them. And if I opened my
Last Line: If I keep my head down, low to my body, I think I can almost disappear
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Travel


SIESTA IN XBALBA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One could pass valuable months
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SIESTA IN XBALBA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One could pass valuable months
Last Line: In watery dusk submersion
Subject(s): Travel


SIGHT-SEEING IN THE MOORS OUTSIDE OF LIANG-ZHOU, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old men of the prairie, two or three homes
Last Line: The shamanka dances in frenzy, %dust shows on her stockings of gauze
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Clergy; Travel; Women


SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


SIRMIO: LAGO DI GARDA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet sirmio! Thou, the very eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Travel


SKIES ITALIAN, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O woman-country!' lisa's sweet still smile
Subject(s): Italy; Travel


SLEEP, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep was going south. It passed baja
Last Line: It was sweet enough for sleep
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Travel


SLEEP AFTER THE CHALLENGER EXPLODED, by JOSEF HANZLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night full of wings
Last Line: The fourth dimension %where you'll find us %wiser %or simply%there?
Subject(s): Challenger (space Craft); Space And Space Travel


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


SMALL DARK SONG, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cherry-tree is down, and dead, that was so high
Last Line: And wind, that did this thing, roams careless while you cry,%for wind's been everywhere today, and h
Subject(s): Travel


SMALL PARK IN EAST GERMANY: 1969, by GERDA MAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crumbling and weathered, their features half-erased
Subject(s): Cold War; Germany; Travel


SMALL PLANES NEAR NOME, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For fifty years
Last Line: Who boards that plane %will never return
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Eskimos; Loss; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska


SMALL TOWNS OF IRELAND, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The small towns of ireland by bards are neglected
Subject(s): Travel


SNOW, by NAN FRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drifting we wake
Subject(s): Travel


SNOW FENCE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red fence
Subject(s): Travel


SO GONE HE COULDN'T COME BACK IF HE WANTED TO, by RUBA NADDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He says baby, come here
Last Line: He's so far gone he couldn't come back if he wanted to
Subject(s): Loss; Travel


SO LONG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At least at night, a streetlight
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SO LONG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At least at night, a streetlight
Last Line: To love may be what's near %in the cold, even then
Subject(s): Travel


SOBRE TRANSPORTES DEL NORTE, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He leans across the aisle, and points
Last Line: There is so much I do not understand
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


SOLITARY TRAVEL, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Breakfasting alone in karachi, delhi, calcutta
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Travel


SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR SOLITUDE, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The envy one feels for nuns
Last Line: When I return, I will wake %you to marvelous freedom
Subject(s): Solitude; Travel


SOMETHING TOUCHED ME ONE NIGHT AND I TRY TO GET IT OUT, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I studied at night, by dawn and was not done
Last Line: I think on past travels upon the green rivers
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere?
Last Line: The somewhere meant for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Imagination; Travel


SOMEWHERE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Travelling alone through europe
Last Line: To make, of this scuttle and heartbeat, art
Subject(s): Travel


SOMNAMBULISTS' HOTEL, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only sleepwalkers stay there
Last Line: And all vow to stay here should fate ever lead them this way again
Subject(s): Hotels; Sleepwalking; Tourists; Travel


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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see %a billboard lovely as a tree
Last Line: I'll never see a tree at all
Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees


SONG OF THE RIDER, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Cordoba
Last Line: Distant and alone
Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Horseback Riding; Travel


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 OF TRAVEL ON THE CHIKUMA RIVER, by SHIMAZAKI TOSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday again it was so
Last Line: And to this bank I tie my cares
Subject(s): Travel


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


SONGLINE OF DAWN, by JOY HARJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are ascending through the dawn
Subject(s): Air Travel; Religion; Ancestors & Ancestry; Theology


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 FROM HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the white mountains
Last Line: The thicket's small, leafless %poplars, march lyres
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing And Singers; Spain; Travel


SONGS OF A WANDERER, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom is the garden fated?
Last Line: In sickness and in health %siamese sister %my bride
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Travel


SONGS OF THE UPPER DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miller is my lover
Last Line: Dance. Sound the flute %and drum
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 40. TROPIC RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


SONGS TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't know %when you held a yellow lemon
Last Line: To you, guiomar, my longing
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets; Travel


SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting in the living room
Last Line: I shant look up to see it drop
Subject(s): Air Travel


SONIC BOOM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting in the living room
Last Line: And if it does, with one more pop, %I shan't look up to see it drop
Subject(s): Air Travel


SONNET, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the wall that holds jerusalem
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Travel


SONNET, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old city and its heaps of earth-brown streets
Last Line: From caverns of my dream, you also soar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Spring; Travel


SONNET, by KAREN VOLKMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping sister of a farther sky
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel;conduct Of Life; Body, Human; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


SONNET ON PASSING THE BRIDGE OF ALCANTRA, NEAR LISBON, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft as at pensive eve I pass the brook
Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William
Subject(s): Travel


SONNET UPON A SWEDISH COTTAGE, by JOHN CARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, far from all the pomp ambition seeks
Subject(s): Sweden; Travel


SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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: 239, by LUIS DE CAMOENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the streams of babylon, in tears
Last Line: May my right hand forget its cunning too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Travel


SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart was where a hundred roads converge
Last Line: To gaze so pityingly at my gray hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Roads; Spain; Travel


SONNETS: 1. TO THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


SORRENTO: A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair fountains of man's art were there
Subject(s): Travel


SOUND BITES: EL ROUND UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those hard days now called a background!
Last Line: From one language to another
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: FIRST DAYS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nueva york, el hotel beverly
Last Line: What else didn't you tell us?
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, mami, what a shame
Last Line: Wears a little pillbox hat
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: I SIZE UP LA SITUATION, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Translate yourself, nina
Last Line: From the united states of america
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: MAMI'S ADVICE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep your voices down, girls
Last Line: I dont want to hear another word
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUND BITES: TALKING BACK TO MAMI (YEARS LATER), by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had to cut myself out
Last Line: Not who you really are
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


SOUTHBOUND, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can go back in a clap of blue metal
Last Line: You may listen for thunder
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): Southern States; Travel


SOUTHWESTERN SOULD, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trucker stops. Vanishing points. Mirages
Last Line: Here a multitude of baked shit-colored bungalow doors %behind each salvation is stranded
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Travel


SOUVENIR, by RAY HEDGPETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As we turned to leave yosemite falls
Last Line: In her white coat and scarf
Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Souvenirs; Travel


SPACE TRAVEL, by JANE W. KROWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's all aboard for outer space
Last Line: Then make my reservation %on a rocket to the moon
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


SPACE TRAVEL, by OALFUR JOHANN SIGURDSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pulsing notes of the northern lights ...
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 12, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I come on a visit
Last Line: Seems to go up
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel


SPARKLING BEACHES, by RAUL ZURITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beaches of chile were only a nickname
Last Line: Shouting to all these winds the blessed baptism %they dreamt
Subject(s): Chile; Seashore; Travel


SPARROW IN AN AIRPORT, by RICHARD SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searched, we waited to fly
Subject(s): Travel


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


SPELL, by VANDANA KHANNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought it was the city, the muddled city
Last Line: And it was, with garlands stringing the runway like tiny beeds of blood
Subject(s): India; Travel


SPENDING THE NIGHT IN A LITTLE VILLAGE, by KUAN HSIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hard traveling, and then
Last Line: Seining up fish from the pool
Subject(s): Travel; Villages; Zen Buddhism


SPHINX IN THE MUSEUM AT DELPHI, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: My eyes are blank [or, vacant]
Last Line: The taut, broken, obdurate, %skull of a doll
Subject(s): Egypt; Museums; Sphinx; Travel


SPIDERWEBS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man sitting next to me on the airplane pulled our
Subject(s): Air Travel; Computers; Eccentrics & Eccentricites


SPRING AGAIN, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aspens glisten
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Travel


SPRING AND ALL, by GRACE BAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: March has come in roaring
Subject(s): Travel


SPRING BREAK, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a universal business that's brought them here
Last Line: Stitched robes, to anything we wouldn't know how to undo
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation


SPRING IN TEVEBAUGH HOLLOW, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was across the creek %and the tar road, shadow cut
Last Line: Seams fat as tracks on a railroad crossing sign
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


ST. ANDREW'S HEAD, by KEVIN PILKINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the tenth century a.D.
Last Line: His eyes closed to the world
Subject(s): History; Italy; Tourists; Travel


ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis         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


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car
Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole
Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women


STANDING NEAR THE GHATS ALONG THE GANGES, by WILLIAM KISTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since this is the circumstance of life
Last Line: Into ash, gone without hesitation %into the sky of continuous beginning
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Life; Travel


STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I go again
Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States


STATE, by JOHN PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are thoughts, mechanical as wings
Last Line: Spread through all the ill-used valves
Subject(s): Travel


STATE OF THE UNION: 2. PROGRESS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sandboats on the lagoon
Last Line: Since they set out at dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel


STATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two boards with a token roof, backed
Last Line: At first light would get up and go on
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Hiking; Statues; Stones; Travel


STAYING, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wherever night overtakes her
Last Line: Migrating through the balckened keys
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel


STAYING UP ALONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a week apart we sit face to face
Last Line: In this locality-a grown woman
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


STELLENBOSCH, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The general 'eard the firin' on the flank
Last Line: That 'amper an 'inder an' scold men %for fear o' stellenbosch!
Subject(s): Travel


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


STILL THIS, STILL THAT I WOULD! ALL I SURMISE, by WILLIAM LITHGOW    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Thus leaving him, I with the consul bode, %full forty days, or I went thence abroad
Subject(s): Syria; Travel


STILL WRITING, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When friends ask you are still writing
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


STONE DOVES OF WILLIAM EDMONSON, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nashville, 1937 %they suit for bath or grave. Anywhere under the sun
Last Line: He hung a tombstone out for me to make
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


STOP, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes we stop on the journey
Last Line: Minds fixed on clay and the works of clay
Subject(s): Travel


STOPPING THE LIGHTS, RANELAGH 1986, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two hands to the bottle of wincarnis
Last Line: Safe from the law alive and well %in the wind on the great south wall
Variant Title(s): Stopping The Lights, Ranelag
Subject(s): Travel


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


STORIES, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: January thaw in the berkshires, 4 a.M., and what I want
Last Line: As if this cleaving, this consciousness, this barn, %had somewhere to go
Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Desire; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sea Voyages; Travel


STORM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide
Last Line: Cannot waken anything %but drives the smoke from %a few lean chimneys streaming %violently southward
Subject(s): Travel


STRAW, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man's sombrero with its one tiny tassel
Last Line: Like wheat, whispering %in a field
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


STREET LEVEL, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He brandishes a fan of fly swatters
Last Line: Battlements, he will be completely happy
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


STREETS IN SHANGHAI, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white butterlfy in the park is read by many
Last Line: We look almost happy out in the sun, while we are bleeding fatally from %wounds we don't know about
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Shanghai, China; Travel


STRUNG SEEDS, by MAJDA KNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When someone walks on rotten snow
Last Line: One waits night and morning for joyous times
Subject(s): Travel


SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day-glo signs of survival
Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song
Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel


SUCH SOFT IDEAS ALL PAINS BEGUILE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Travel


SUMMER JOURNEY, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it's july, hot and sleepy and still
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Travel


SUMO WRESTLERS, by JAMES KIRKUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: If looks could kill
Last Line: Ten tons of rice-balls tumbling %into a pleased ringside geisha's lap
Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Wrestling And Wrestlers


SUN, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is my most famous charade
Last Line: Like a ruined beast with a lens
Subject(s): Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel


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


SUNFLOWER, by ANDRE BRETON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The traveller who crossed les halles at summer's end
Last Line: Andre breton he said may pass here
Subject(s): Paris, France; Sunflowers; Travel


SUNSET, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before I left my spot
Subject(s): Travel


SUNSET CABOOSE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full 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


SUTTEE, by THOMAS SKINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The evening sun-beams threw their golden light
Last Line: Courts the proud triumph of a hindoo bride, %betrothed in life, in death to be allied
Subject(s): India; Travel


SUZIE'S ENZYME POEM, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a drag it must be for you!
Subject(s): Travel


SWALLOWS TRAVEL TO AND FRO, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tremble, half the world apart
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Travel


SWEET STAY-AT-HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


SWITZERLAND, by ANTHONY THWAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a valley in switzerland a brass band marches
Subject(s): Travel


TAJ, by H. G. KEENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: White, like a spectre seen when night is old
Last Line: An aspiration fixed, a sigh made stone
Subject(s): India; Taj Mahal; Travel


TAKE ME TO THE WATER, by HALVARD JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to go over to the lake, but instead he drove me inland
Last Line: Of a straight, hard, sharp, direct, flat, utterly convincing horizon
Subject(s): Travel; Water


TAKE OFF, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: From one dot %on the map %to the other %the airplane clocks
Last Line: And fly incrementally %towards fire
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Flight; Sky; Tourists; Travel


TAKE THIS TOUR, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take this tour any day except monday or tuesday
Last Line: The water and the coin and the nickels of commission. %it remains salvaged. It pours a column
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men
Last Line: That later you remember was your own
Subject(s): Air Travel


TAKE-OFF OVER KANSAS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first the fences are racing under. Horses and men
Last Line: That later you remember was your own
Subject(s): Air Travel


TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again
Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses
Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick
Last Line: Throbs within them, under cashmere and cambric: %'vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out
Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel


TANGIER: HOTEL RIF, by DONALD MICHAEL THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Pale pink and green lights flush on white
Last Line: Hull-down the bilge-sprung tankers limp %to pale atlantic afternoons
Subject(s): Tangier, Morocco; Travel


TANGIERS, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ferry couldn't have had a better name
Last Line: But traveled finally, as we went home with these words
Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel


TANKA, by MIBU UTAMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am on a jourey
Last Line: In the dark, my love %will be pining for me
Subject(s): Travel


TANTRUM, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know this country
Last Line: It has been so many many years since we were there
Subject(s): Travel


TAOSENO, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even the sun is different here: %more generous along its helioptrope horizon
Last Line: Travels the length of this ruin %this place of silence and sheen
Subject(s): Language; Maps; Travel


TEA THE PALAZ OF HOON, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not less because in purple I descended
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


TELL ME,' I ASK MIGUEL ANGEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As I take the reins into my trembling hands
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: COMING HOME ON THE OX'S BACK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mount the ox
Last Line: The man claims ox. %I claim the man
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Travel


TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace
Last Line: Distance is dead and light can only die
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


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


TERNINAL, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didn't you get my card?
Last Line: In the garden, it can be anything
Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Travel


TERRA INCOGNITA, by BARBARA SZERLIP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've walked since morning, the landscape, as before, perfect sem
Last Line: Any he's seen before, swears there's not a constellation he can recognize
Subject(s): Camping; Sea Voyages; Tourists; Travel


THAT NIGHT I DIDN'T MAKE LOVE AT THE FLAMINGO MOTEL IN LONG PRAIRIE, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only yesterday someone swiped it
Last Line: Under the last of these %last snows
Subject(s): Hotels; Love; Passion; Travel


THAT OTHER WORLD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the plane was ready to
Last Line: I went on alone %back ot my own
Subject(s): Air Travel


THAT SUMMER, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 AIR MAIL, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No stunting's allowed in the service
Last Line: We're carrying uncle sam's mail!
Subject(s): Air Travel; Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 BLUE COAST, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peter sat in the garden
Last Line: Had given him for his journey: / sentimental education
Subject(s): Travel; Friendship; Relationships


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full 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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spent an hour watchjing the yellow parrots
Last Line: Did I stop to listen to that music, poor love?
Subject(s): Travel; Conduct Of Life; Irish; Judaism


THE FAR FIELD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips


THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america
Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America


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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Full 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 LOVER'S INTERDICT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop, traveler, just a moment at my gate
Last Line: Crush you among the echoes of the song.
Subject(s): Love; Travel


THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS            Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have tempered haste
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MULTIVERSE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a ship, in sinking, sucks whatever flotsam
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


THE MURDERED TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full 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 Full 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 STEPHENSON OF THE AIR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where lives he? - that inventive one
Last Line: Has learned to struggle and to win!
Subject(s): Air Travel; Inventions And Inventors; Stephenson, George (1781-1848)


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through my torso, the smooth
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TOURISTS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you danced from midnight
Last Line: With their lucifer kicking
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Air Travel


THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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


THERAPIES, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no need to work it through
Last Line: But is great rumi's passport valid for america?
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Travel


THERE IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sad, tired, pensive, old
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A TONGA, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And never ride more in a tonga
Subject(s): Travel


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNLUCE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is time to return to dunluce'
Subject(s): Homecoming; Travel


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHINA, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all of them settled in china
Subject(s): China; Old Age; Travel


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SHIELDS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Followed after that person of shields
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Old Age; Travel


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF TWICKENHAM, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We may go back directly to twickenham
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Tongs; Travel


THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge
Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel


THEY ARE HEADED NORTH, by PEDRO R. VELASQUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are headed north %with a bottle in their heart
Last Line: Still heading north %amidst the crosses of silence
Subject(s): Travel


THEY CROSSED COUNTRY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Memory / was not to be trusted
Subject(s): Memory; Travel


THIN AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By holding one's head stock-still and measuring
Last Line: Murderously fast. Oh, we would die, %squashed snails, were the world one shade more solid
Subject(s): Air Travel


THINGS MEN HAVE TOLD ME, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my father was a boy he fell down in a stony
Last Line: My future in those first strange words
Subject(s): Language; Madagascar; Travel


THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose
Last Line: All harmonics sound
Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


THIS I DREAMT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wanderer of the road becomes the road
Last Line: Of heraclitean fire, and yet no ash
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


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


THOMAS DIVIDE, by DEBORA KINSLAND FOERST    Poem Source                    
First Line: We used to sit at thomas divide
Last Line: And through our windshield
Subject(s): Automobiles; Traffic; Travel


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 AT THIRTY-THOUSAND FEET, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The penny holds out its little promise
Last Line: So keep the whole mess from exploding
Subject(s): Air Travel


THOUGHTS OF THE SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boat makes her way between the
Last Line: The exile that follows it
Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Life Change Events; Sea; Travel


THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you
Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips


THOUSAND MILES FROM DELLA ROSE, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When little I remember survives
Last Line: You are my new river
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


THREE A.M., IN WINTER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


THREE ANECDOTES, by DEBORAH TALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We made love in a field outside gort
Last Line: As we choose to stay? Your face turned towards the gate
Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Old Age; Patriotism; Travel


THREE CITIES: 1. MILAN, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among your stones and your fogs I play
Last Line: There's no respite from life %like life
Subject(s): Life; Milan, Italy; Travel


THREE CITIES: 1. THREE TRAVELLERS, by JOHN VOIKLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three travellers met in smyrna; each described
Last Line: The traveller forms one city, focused, whole
Subject(s): Travel


THREE CITIES: 2. TURIN, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll return to your mountains' sociable circuit
Last Line: I'll seek the garage where he works, growing old
Subject(s): Cities; Travel


THREE PERFECT DAYS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle seat of an airplane,
Subject(s): Air Travel; Wishes


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM ALCATRAZ, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: San francisco at noon
Last Line: Surrounding her white flesh
Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Paintings And Painters; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM OAKLAND, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is san francisco at noon
Last Line: On crates of doves.'
Subject(s): Hotels; San Francisco; Tourists; Travel


THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO: FROM SAUSALITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is san francisco at noon
Last Line: Of a sprawling, white hospital
Subject(s): Sausalito, California; Tourists; Travel


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 1, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: For ten years I was a drifter
Last Line: From every temple's balcony
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 2, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was outside cloud gate temple
Last Line: Of the pikes of the royal guard
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 3, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here li bo wrote a poem
Last Line: That bloomed in a mountain rain
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Li Po (701-762); Travel


THREE VIEWS FROM THE LATIN AMERICAN SUMMIT, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Important men hold forth to an ocean
Last Line: Hundreds of miles from the coast
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


THREE VIEWS OF THE YOKOHAMA LINE, by JOEL FRIEDERICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dwelling in corners, in the ashes
Last Line: Of the world's unattainable contours
Subject(s): Cities; Commuters; Travel


THROUGH LANE IT LAY, THROUGH BRAMBLE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: These children fluttered home
Subject(s): Travel; Fear


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


THUMB, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The odd, friendless boy raised by four aunts
Subject(s): Travel


THUS WAS THE CITY FOUNDED, by MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such is the way of the world and I have nothing but good
Last Line: Profession of his father: dealer in scent-bottles
Variant Title(s): Anabasis: 4; Anabasis: I
Subject(s): Asia; Travel


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


TIME PIECE, by WILLIAM ROSSA COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take the back off the watch
Subject(s): Travel


TIME SPACE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the universe I crawl
Last Line: And time a dream. . . .
Subject(s): God; Metaphysics; Space & Space Travel; Time; Universe; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


TIME ZONES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Downstairs in montana the phone rings and it's my sister
Last Line: In the grass that never lies down, that wraps itself around the world
Variant Title(s): Time Zones: Sister To Siste
Subject(s): Relationships; Time; Travel


TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Do we need such shadows / here in life?
Subject(s): Travel


TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How smiled the land of france
Last Line: Gladness in heaven!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO A PASSER-BY, by JEAN-RAYMOND TSCHUMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This face
Last Line: Let us go and explore the final rhymes
Subject(s): Sight; Travel


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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range / a rest / face off
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range %a rest %face off
Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 ELLEN, by CHARLES B. STETLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear claudia, this is a love note written to you
Subject(s): Travel


TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left
Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.'
Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration


TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 JENNIFER, THINKING OF LI PO, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, with you in seattle
Last Line: Like loaves of bread, like whales
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


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 JOURNEY LIKE MARLOW, by EVA STROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do I care about the mirrored halls, the capital cities
Last Line: Enclosed by primeval forests, trapped in his hull
Subject(s): Travel


TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, by HENRY LUSHINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aye, let the jesuits lie
Subject(s): Travel


TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 PARKER, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My parker, paper, pen and ink were made to write
Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George
Subject(s): Travel


TO PRINCESS KAIULANI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 RICHMOND AND BACK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We hope after william marries
Last Line: A two-karat ruby in prongs
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Richmond, Virginia; Travel


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 Analysis             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 SHIRAZ, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: How much time, how much thirst, how many days
Last Line: Till I can reach you again
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Travel


TO TESTOSTERONE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You took me to the spanish steps
Subject(s): Testosterone; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO THE MOON AND BACK, by WILLIAM PLOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Countdown - takeoff
Last Line: Splashdown - claptrap
Subject(s): Moon; Space And Space Travel


TO THE TRAVELER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower slid down my shoulder %and fell in the water
Last Line: Its golden sugar cube %that melted in the sun
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel


TO THE WEST, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my heart %the flame subsides
Last Line: On my way out %to the west
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Remorse; Travel


TO VENICE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dishonour'd hast thou been, but no debased
Subject(s): Travel


TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


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


TOBACCO PLANT, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We wondered at the tobacco plants there in france
Subject(s): Travel


TOLD BY 'THE NOTED TRAVELLER', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your best friend is gone
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOMORROW, by MARK STRAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your best friend is gone
Last Line: Will invent an ending that comes out right
Subject(s): Travel


TONIGHT, WALT WHITMAN, THE PACIFIC, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, soul mate, I summon you out of the pacific
Last Line: Singing your angelic song
Subject(s): Anniversaries; California; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Singing And Singers; Travel


TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


TOUCHSTONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At la guardia's touch-tone, charge-a-call phone
Last Line: Imagined bodies %genuinely touching
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


TOUGHEST JOB, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My students believe in ready answers
Last Line: Who taught her instigate, obliterate, win
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel


TOUR, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An american's amazed, on his visit
Last Line: And emerged where their blinded fathers stood
Subject(s): Travel; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


TOURING, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Guys who first learned to drive
Last Line: A nothing in the air
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Tourists; Tractors; Travel


TOURING THE SOUTHWEST, by KATHERINE MERCURIO GOTTHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The drive from santa fe
Last Line: Lifting dust from mouth to tongue, sitting as time permits
Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.)


TOURIST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strolls down vaci street
Last Line: That sports a communist donald duck
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Tourists; Travel


TOURISTS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arriving was their passion
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Travel


TOWARD SPACE, by SARA BARD FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clutch the granite earth
Last Line: In spiral flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


TOWARD THE LOWLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Window grilles and seed roses
Last Line: Before the moon comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Travel


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to you o moon
Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses


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


TRAIL, by MARIA M. HUMMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the ox bones and the cherry
Last Line: That's what the stones %were saying
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Travel


TRAIN, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Train skims fields like a low-flying
Last Line: As weeds beside the rail bed
Subject(s): Commuters; Home; Railroads; Roads; Travel


TRAIN, by ANN HUDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman stitches the mouth of a button-hole
Last Line: Barely sees her face, a glass dinner plate
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On any trip I take
Last Line: We streak in a lightning bolt!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel


TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


TRAIN TRAVEL, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early morning rises off the fields
Last Line: Where in the end are the worlds we leave behind
Subject(s): Commuters; Explorers; Railroads; Travel


TRAIN WILL BE AT LEAST AN HOUR LATE, by SANDRO PENNA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Are sole masters of the hour
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel


TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing
Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way
Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel


TRAINS CARRYING SLEEPERS, by MAUREEN GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dolphins made me stay in that town. The first time I saw them I
Last Line: Did not split at the hip, that did not open and open
Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Sleep; Travel


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


TRANSACTIONS UNDER GLASS, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why not let the whole morning turn on the brick cylinders
Last Line: Having cleared her throat for nothing
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They sailed from cobh with a skeletal crew
Last Line: Another qe2
Subject(s): Cobh, Ireland; Immigrants; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping; Travel


TRANSUBSTANTIATION, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across santa barbara harbor, masts lean like white
Last Line: Shaft of straggly feathers, here and there, shed
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Harbors; Santa Barbara, California; Travel


TRANSYLVANIA, by DIANNE STANNISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My aunt lived there
Last Line: Into mine. Twenty-seven, %alone, husbanded by danger
Subject(s): Aunts; Travel


TRAVEL, by LYDIA AVLONITI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine
Last Line: To save me %from treason?
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVEL, by JULIO CORTAZAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When famas go on a trip, when they pass the night in a
Last Line: Never take the trouble
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel


TRAVEL, by LESLEY DAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sent a letter to a dying friend
Last Line: Tentatively, as if into a pool
Subject(s): Sickness; Travel


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 DANIEL KUNITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the wing he saw earth's cultivated confinements
Last Line: Unhuffed if not untouched, illusion intact
Subject(s): Travel


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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because everything still bears
Last Line: Of green.
Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL JUST STARTS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A listener awaiting %the long scratch
Last Line: To build itself as earth %includes the attempt
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


TRAVEL NOTES, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember cully: this is what happened there. As the captain turned
Last Line: We can be at our best, without apology, and bear our lives in its song
Subject(s): Poetry Readings; Travel


TRAVEL PAPERS, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By boat to seurasaari where
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL PLANS, by LESLIE MONSOUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pepper tree spilled round us from its source
Last Line: I'd like to go to mexico,' you said
Subject(s): Relationships; Travel


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


TRAVEL WITH THE MISSING, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your car drives up the tall building
Last Line: You accept and stand still. This is your work
Subject(s): Mothers; Travel


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, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the tormented reeds those two women
Last Line: I am a traveler, looking only for rest
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


TRAVELER, by PARK MOGWOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crossing water on a ferry
Last Line: The traveler goes like the moon in the clouds
Subject(s): Travel


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


TRAVELER, ORKNEY ISLES, SCOTLAND, by ANNE PITKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky, for example, flat and white
Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Travel


TRAVELERS, by LUCIANO ERBA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a day of bright white plumes
Last Line: Of the laundry on the lines
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELING, by MARIO BENEDETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I travel with the nomads
Last Line: I know the world is eternal %and dying
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELING, by JAMES R. LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thought I caught a comet's tail
Last Line: Lifted me to the rift valley
Subject(s): Africa; Poetry And Poets; Travel


TRAVELING ALONE, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the hotel coffee shop that morning
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING AT NIGHT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slender grasses
Last Line: Between the heavens and the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am packing to go to the airport
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am packing to go to the airport
Last Line: There is one cat the size of a sofa
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel


TRAVELING EXHIBITION, by JANE BLUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The photographs of mary ann marks
Last Line: Buttoning each other's dresses %combing out their thick hair
Subject(s): Circus; Travel


TRAVELING LIGHT, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm only leaving you
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING MAN, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where were you born? %I was born in puerto rico
Last Line: Charter and I have many wonderful holidays. Just the two of us
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Passports; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


TRAVELING SONG, by AUGUST HEINRICH HOFFMAN VON FALLERSLEBEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birds are singing, blossoms blooming
Alternate Author Name(s): Fallersleben, Hoffman Von
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The map shows me my attempted life
Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk
Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel


TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
Last Line: The end of their journey, I descended too
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel


TRAVELLER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This traveller broke at length, toward set of sun
Last Line: Inn at the cross roads, and the traveller's rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELLER HAS REGRETS, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And that the bed was made %and that we could not stay
Subject(s): Travel


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


TRAVELLER'S SONG, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water pours down in order to swallow us
Last Line: And the easy winds blow
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELLER; OR, A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow
Last Line: To men remote from power but rarely known, %leave reason, faith, and conscience all their own
Variant Title(s): Hollan
Subject(s): Courage; Travel


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 PIERRE REVERDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning %when the pendulum moves more quickly
Last Line: A few yours more of not being any more
Subject(s): Time; Travel


TRAVELLING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travelled, learning new ways
Last Line: Seas that men must endeavor %to navigate on their voyage home
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELS FROM LONDON TO PRAGUE, SELS., by JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from bohem, yet no news I bring
Subject(s): Travel


TRAVELS WE TOOK IN OUR TIME, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Place become enough and too much
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELS WITH JOHN HUNTER, by LES A. MURRAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who travel between worlds
Last Line: Rescued from death defines and will %atone for the human
Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan
Subject(s): Travel


TREAD THE DARK: 2. FROM THE OBSERVATORY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each step is to and from an object
Last Line: Among the stars that are dead, %dying or afire
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


TREE, by JOSE JOAQUIN OLMEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the calm, wide-spreading shadow
Last Line: Underneath the desert's tree
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel; Trees


TREEHOUSE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose kite was this?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TREEHOUSE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose kite was this?
Subject(s): Travel


TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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


TRIGEMINUS, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then we went swimming, on familiar terms with the dead
Last Line: Before the brief since-then
Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel


TRINIDAD, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: This I have often been
Last Line: In which the three of us will meet %in the form %of one
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Tourists; Travel; Trinidad And Tobago


TRIP HOP, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll pack my toothbrush
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRISTRAM'S JOURNEY, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He strode across the room and flung
Last Line: And he was in his place
Subject(s): Tristram & Isolde; Travel


TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, FLYING TO IOWA, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the blue morning I left you
Last Line: Flying to iowa, the heart of the land
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


TUAREG TEA CEREMONY, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the desert men drink shots
Last Line: To the younger boys and they eat
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Guests; Tea; Travel


TULIP, by ROBERT WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It digs the air with green blades
Subject(s): Travel


TUNNELS, by KATHERINE HARER    Poem Source                    
First Line: American tourists are looking for new ways to spend their dollars. They
Last Line: Enlarge them, renovate history. This will be done
Subject(s): History; Tourists; Travel; Vietnam


TURTLES OF SANTA ROSA, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haul their leathery, pock-marked backs
Last Line: Might then remember me
Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Reptiles; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Turtles; Zoos


TWO FOR THE FIRE: 2. EROS AND AGAPE, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What you would use
Last Line: And heart, what you left %burning behind you
Subject(s): Absence; Travel


TWO HOPPER, by RON IKAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dad said the white sox
Subject(s): Travel


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 Analysis             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


TWO TRIPS TO IRELAND, by DAVID POLLOCK YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well-eye, gazing at daytime stars
Last Line: By a man so trapped in time
Subject(s): Hotels; Ireland; Roads; Travel


TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incidents along the way
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel


UCHEPAS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tamales plain-steamed then whitened
Last Line: Has not touched us, yet
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


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


UNABLE BY LONG AND HARD TRAVEL TO BANISH LOVE RETURNS, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wounded with love and piercing deep desire
Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George
Subject(s): Travel


UNCE UPON A TIME IN SPAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have only a few postcards
Last Line: But thanks to our parting, %that last embrace, %I have good memories
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Farewell; Gypsies; Memory; Travel


UNDEFINED TENDERNESS, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


UNI-VERSE, by BORIS NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light and its night: shapes and their shades, waves and shores- their
Last Line: Universe, an unspeakable rhyme of rhymes, universe, one and only %cosmic verse
Subject(s): Planets; Poetry And Poets; Stars; Travel; Universe


UNIVERSE, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the bower %a hardened song
Last Line: Tomorrow will be the end of the universe
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Travel; Universe


UNKNOWN SHORES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Okay, my starsick beauty %blue jeans and tilting breasts
Last Line: I do not know of such! %but come, where will you go?
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Travel


UNNATURAL ACTS, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere along the line
Last Line: Style, style, style
Subject(s): Dreams; Hitchhikers; Hotels; Nature; Travel


UP AT A VILLA - DOWN IN THE CITY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


US, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This country %people in it in their cars
Subject(s): Travel


UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh
Subject(s): Air Travel


UTTAR PRADESH, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were dozing over uttar pradesh
Last Line: Ah, yes, and a most memorable hasenpfeffer
Subject(s): Air Travel


VACATION TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I catch my grandfather basking in the sun
Last Line: Flora und fauna in den alpen
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vacation


VADE MECUM, by MACDARA WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sailing half-over the indigo sea
Last Line: And I'll do like for like in kind
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Martinis; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


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


VALEDICTION, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady with the frilled blouse
Last Line: Until you resume command %self is in mutiny
Subject(s): Travel


VALID, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full 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


VAN DIEMAN'S LAND (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you gallant poachers, that ramble free from care
Last Line: For if you knew our hardships, you would never poach again
Subject(s): East Indies; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel


VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY AMMONS AND LI PO, by LEON STOKESBURY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night on the national geographic channel
Last Line: And then the moon
Subject(s): Geography; Mountain Climbing; Travel


VENETIAN GONDOLIER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here rest the weary oar! - soft airs
Subject(s): Travel


VENICE, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been there: 1989. Ate squid and scampi
Last Line: Wine and crazy in love in venice, in springtime, in 1989
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Travel; Venice, Italy


VENICE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Night on the adriatic, night!
Subject(s): Travel


VENICE BY DAY, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The splendour of the orient, here of old
Subject(s): Travel


VENICE IN THE EVENING, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Mid all this pomp of the ancient time
Subject(s): Travel


VENICE'S WINE SEA FEEDS WINE, by DANEEN WARDROP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And there are many
Subject(s): City And Town Life; Travel


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


VERONA, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this the minicius?
Subject(s): Travel


VERSAILLES, by GODFREY FOX BRADBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here, in the palace gardens, where the stately fountains
Subject(s): Travel


VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust
Last Line: At the williest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad
Subject(s): Boundaries; Earth; Travel; Versailles, Frances


VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust
Last Line: At the silliest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad
Subject(s): Geography; Travel; Versailles, Frances


VERSES WRITTEN AT MONTAUBAN IN FRANCE, 1750, by JOSEPH WARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tarn, how delightful wind thy willowed waves
Subject(s): Travel


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


VICTORIA, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From victoria I can go
Last Line: I'm the sorriest one in all the nation %when my train runs into victoria station
Subject(s): England; Railroads; Travel


VICTORY THEATER, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The marquee almost comes alive when sun
Last Line: The marquee almost comes alive
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


VIENNA, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This imperial city needs no empire
Subject(s): Travel


VIEW #37: OCEAN BEACH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer light lavish this late in the day
Last Line: They'll open again
Subject(s): Seashore; Travel


VIEW FROM A PLANE TO GUATEMALA, by IRENE BARNARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look out the window of the plane
Last Line: I begin to understand
Subject(s): Air Travel; Guatemala


VIEWS, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fly all the time, and still I'm afraid to fly
Subject(s): Air Travel; Fear


VILLA BORGHESE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A grace of winter breathing like the spring
Subject(s): Borghese, Villa; Travel


VILLA D'ESTE GARDENS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Writes one of my italianistic friends
Subject(s): Travel


VIOLIN SONGS: FAITH, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, if aught should check thy race
Last Line: "from the sun of liberty!"
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Space And Space Travel; World; Belief; Creed


VISIT, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before he came home from america
Last Line: Thanks for the burbot soup, vanja
Subject(s): Guests; Travel; Vacation


VISIT, by HOLLY PRADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marla gets off the plane and I see her walking fast, toward me, dressed
Last Line: Coffee to lean down and rub my leg until I can stand on it
Subject(s): Cities; Guests; Travel


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


VISITING CHOLULA, MEXICO, 1970, by ANGELA BALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: First we saw a hill so tall
Last Line: In and out of life, the wire
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


VISITOR, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fine rain falls, greening their garden
Subject(s): Denmark; Travel


VIZCAINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here at cape vizcaino in mendocino
Last Line: Take care. See you soon
Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Tourists; Travel; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616)


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


VOLCANOES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each volcano lifts its profile
Last Line: Like tumbled baskets, spilling flowers
Subject(s): Fire; Stones; Travel; Volcanoes


VOTIVE TABLETS: TO THE ASTRONOMERS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the nebulae and planets do not babble so to me
Last Line: Never the sublime abideth — where you vainly search — in space!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Space And Space Travel


VOYAGE OF SELF-DISCOVERY, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the voyage of self-discovery: it started out with enormous sails, a
Last Line: Houseboat
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Travel


VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is among us in the gloom
Last Line: The clock's ticktock. None of us talks
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel


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 Analysis             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


WAIT FOR US, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watchful boys, gleams in their pockets
Last Line: They quicken. Esperanos, they call
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


WAITING, by ROBERT PACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: As in a thunderstorm at night
Subject(s): Travel


WAITING FOR MY WIFE'S COMMUTER FLIGHT, 45 MINUTES LATE, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a convulsive boom shakes
Last Line: Like a top. A screw needed tightening, %chuck said. Such a little thing
Subject(s): Air Travel; Airplane Accidents; Marriage; Waiting


WAITING FOR THE BUS, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She casts the only shade at the crossroads
Last Line: Blue sky. He is seeking me by air
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


WAITING FOR THE BUS, by KATALIN MEZEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hanging over the railing of the park
Last Line: And I resent it if anyone says %ultimately
Subject(s): Buses; Travel


WAKING UP SPACE, by THOM VANDER VEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Find out today there is a third dimension
Last Line: Waking space, waking up space
Subject(s): Space And Space Travel


WALK IN THE WOODS, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun leaves the ground like fall
Last Line: Playing over pine needles on the sand
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


WALKING THE MALL, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In winter, before the shops open
Last Line: Just for good memories and the sport
Subject(s): Fargo, North Dakota; Memory; Travel


WALKING WITH FATHER IN COLORADO, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everywhere I followed him back in time
Last Line: I knelt and drank from the shining in my hands
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Snow; Travel; Winter


WALL, by RICK CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the topo map of the world
Last Line: Of home, where we stood 'in free,' waiting %for him to be it again
Subject(s): Pennsylvania; Travel


WALL, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We jews slip secrets inside cracked mortar
Last Line: Mosques and homes. Mosques and homes
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Continents; Travel


WALTZ, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live a life of ever-two
Last Line: Should hang its head for the city's shame
Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Travel


WANDER A LOT', by EUGENE WARREN DOTY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Among those %crisp stars
Subject(s): Change; Travel


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Lonely stranger, we loved having you among us, go home in peace
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering


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


WAR, by RICHARD SHELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day the terror wagon
Subject(s): Travel


WARING, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


WARLIKE OF THE ISLES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wave may not foam nor wild wind sweep %where rest not the british dead
Subject(s): New Zealand - Maori Wars; Travel


WASHING MY ROSE-COLOURED FLESH AND BRUSHING MY BEARD WITH A ...., by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yours with a l ( ) affection-the globular foolish topographer
Subject(s): Guests; Travel


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


WATCHING FOR DOLPHINS, by DAVID CONSTANTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the summer months on every crossing to piraeus
Subject(s): Travel


WAY BACK, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sound the form the way it is
Last Line: Sleep to take us way back home
Subject(s): Homecoming; Past; Roads; Travel; Youth


WAY IT MUST BE, by ENRIQUE MOLINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is my soul, with its strange %dissatisfaction, like the teeth of the wold
Last Line: Amid this upside down land that pricks up in the cold air
Subject(s): Farewell; Soul; Travel


WAY TO JERUSALEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By younde the brugge on thi right hand
Subject(s): Travel


WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin
Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel


WE ALSO DIED,' SAYS NANA, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bare as nana's palms lined only with her bad fortune
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WE DEFINITIONS, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Air Travel


WE WALK, EXHAUSTED AND DIMLY CHANGED, by EDVARD KOCBEK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dressed, ready for a night journey, we have so far yet to go
Subject(s): Travel; Walking


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


WENDY IN THE '90S, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time she would know better
Last Line: Pleasure-the telling %of the journey out alone
Subject(s): Flight; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Romance; Travel


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


WESTERN WIND (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Westron [western] wynde [wind], when wyll [will] thou [thow] blow
Last Line: And yn [in] my bed agayne [again]
Subject(s): Order; Travel


WESTPORT, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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 CHANGES, MY LOVE, by EDWIN HONIG    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Travel


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 I WILL TAKE FROM MY MOTHER, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A blue glass jar of mismatched buttons
Last Line: Travel up the numinous stepladder stairs
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel


WHAT MAKES TODAY'S COLD KITCHEN, by JIM MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman played harp in purple flannel
Last Line: Like road salt, all across an empty space
Subject(s): National Characteristics - American; U.s. - Description And Travel


WHAT TRIUMPH MOVES ON THE BILLOWS SO BLUE, by MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Monk
Subject(s): Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE BODIES, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I listen to my radio not for music, but the news
Last Line: Whatever dies returns to be retold
Subject(s): Cities; Travel


WHEAT EARS, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving into blue january cold, I take
Last Line: Will close on my home town tonight
Subject(s): Africa; Tourists; Travel


WHEEL OF BECOMING, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a long time you have been wandering
Last Line: Like a question mark
Subject(s): Memory; Peru; Travel


WHEELCHAIR REPAIRMAN'S BRIDE IMAGINES HER FIRST NIGHT, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wonders if she'll straddle him
Last Line: The upper and lower worlds; their skin igniting
Subject(s): Brides; Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Travel


WHEN I CAME FROM COLCHIS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That they should believe me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Colchis, Transcaucasia; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


WHEN I LOVE YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again
Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation


WHEN I TRY TO TRANSLATE, by DANEEN WARDROP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Might be wished to blow our skins together?
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel


WHERE, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are in love with a country
Subject(s): Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


WHERE THE TRACK VANISHES, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow revives in the apple trees
Last Line: We must have been walking through it all our lives
Subject(s): Travel


WHERE THE WHITE BIRD FLIES, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The white bird fallen? The white bird lost?
Last Line: Only heroes follow where the white bird flies.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Sky; Wings


WHEREVER WE TRAVEL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHILE ASLEEP, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were it not for the teddy bear forgotten on the lawn, the
Last Line: Shepherd, it is much too soon to die, first I must learn to throw a good hard stone
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Poetry And Poets; Railroad Stations; Sleep; Travel


WHILE JOURNEYING, by KANG GANGWOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: While journeying a thousand miles
Last Line: Each morning, I awake %my vision spilling
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Travel


WHITE EYES, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends & relatives
Last Line: & everybody was watching.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


WHITEOUT, BOONDOCKS, IOWA, by RICK CHRISTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cold saps the world of breath and the snow surrounds us, closes in
Last Line: Hard, complete, sundered, like logs between the axe
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Travel; Trucks And Trucking


WHO AM I?, by EDVARD KOCBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never am %what people think I am
Last Line: This arrogant century in the face %and the century will blush
Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Deserts; Explorers; Food And Eating; Travel


WHO YOU LOVE? WHO YOU LOVE?, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How even what I loved belongs to me
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WHO'S STANDING, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you the stone of a fruit, dear soul? Mandorla, fetus
Last Line: Loaded among wooden logs
Subject(s): Continents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Yugoslavia


WHOM DO YOU VISUALIZE AS YOUR READER?, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The humanities 5 section man
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHOM DO YOU VISUALIZE AS YOUR READER?, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The humanities 5 section man
Subject(s): Travel


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 SHOULD THE ENTHUSIAST, JOURNEYING THROUGH THIS ISLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If that be reverenced which ought to last
Subject(s): Travel


WHY WAIT? DO IT NOW: 2. ON BRIGHTNESS AND YOU, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come home with roses
Last Line: The road was narrow and not much traveled
Subject(s): Home; Roads; Travel


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


WIDOW DISCOVERS HER TIRES ARE BALD, by PERIE LONGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just days before he slipped off, he asked
Last Line: Maybe he travels while she sleeps, letting the good times roll
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Travel


WIFE, by JIM SIMMERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were leaving the city
Last Line: Was my lot, for which I was unnamed
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Travel


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 Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


WINDOW, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My window, window
Last Line: Yielding their signs to the wind
Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Ships And Shipping; Travel


WINNING OF CALES, by THOMAS DELONEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long had the proud spaniard advanced to conquer us
Subject(s): Travel


WINTER IN SITGES, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old man building a boat on the beach
Last Line: Built to make shapes in the waves
Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Spain; Travel


WINTER LOVE, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Let us have winter loving that the heart
Subject(s): Travel


WINTER'S FIVE MILES AWAY, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Division street's gravel
Last Line: Tomorrow, the eskimo snorts, %will kick like a moose
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Travel; Winter


WINTERED SUNFLOWERS, by RICHARD SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like rusted shower-heads at beach resorts
Subject(s): Travel


WISH YOU WERE HERE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear friend:
Last Line: That you were here with us. Hugs and kisses. Greetings from my %husband. %your dear friend
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Las Vegas, Nevada; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


WITH THE ARMY: 5, by WANG CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I kept faring down roads choked with weeds
Last Line: The poet once praised a 'happy land' - %though a stranger here, I still wish to stay
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Travel


WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


WOMAN WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She begs in the bus station
Last Line: To persuade her to move away
Subject(s): Commuters; Geography; Pain; Travel


WONDERFUL PLACES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
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


WORD MADE FLESH, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked up the words
Last Line: In his corazon and my body
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


WORSHIPPING THE SUN (TAOS, NEW MEXICO), by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crowded houses sat on top of one another
Last Line: Cease for an instant, then begin once again
Subject(s): Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961); Native Americans; New Mexico; Travel


WRITING FOR MONEY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             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


WRITING FOR MONEY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Travel


WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 AT CANDIDATE HSU'S VILLA ON THE TI RIVER, by PAO T'AN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The distant %ferry road blurs
Last Line: Missing only %a gibbon's howl
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Travel; Zen Buddhism


WRITTEN CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER TO QING-HE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boat set sail upon the great river
Last Line: I turn to gaze back toward my homeland - %only vast floods that stretch to the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


WRITTEN ON THE PLAIN OF THEBES, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our boats were moored where luxor throws
Last Line: Will still flow on in strain sublime, %when stones, and evenmen, are mute
Subject(s): Egypt; Travel


WYOMING, by JILL OSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You recognized the land, and I recognized you. And I
Last Line: Beside me. I saw grass, I saw sky. You saw wyoming
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Travel; Wyoming


WYOMING, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: With each new death I push
Last Line: The sky that leads us on
Subject(s): Death; Loss; Travel; United States; Wyoming


XXIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know what fear is
Last Line: The roads don't know where they're leading
Subject(s): Exiles; Roads; Travel


YE POPPULAR AUTHOR & TRAVELLER IN ALBANIA & CALABRIA, KEEPINGE HIS ..., by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1. Ya traveller
Last Line: When he fell asleepe
Subject(s): Travel


YE TOURISTS AND TRAVELLERS BOUND TO THE RHINE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel


YELLOW STARS AND ICE, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds
Subject(s): Relationships; Space & Space Travel; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension


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


YOU HATED SPAIN, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spain frightened you. Spain
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Travel


YOU REMEMBER THE DEFINITIONS, NOT THE WORDS, by JULIA ALVAREZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the first grand month of passion %and wild hope
Last Line: The poems of our trying %to talk ourselves in love
Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women


YOU WERE LOCKED IN AN AIRPLACE, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Or you put one letter in front of another %like an excuse. %so long
Subject(s): Air Travel


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 Analysis             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


YUCATAN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maruska, ana, francie, bob and me
Last Line: Laughing, with a river of tigers swinging %sliding south, living birth
Subject(s): Mexico; Travel


ZIMMER IN FALL, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds and leaves disconnect in fall
Subject(s): Travel


ZOE AND THE GHOSTS, by DIETER WESLOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: That evening %after scotty and his mother moved out
Subject(s): Travel


[UNTITLED], by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I passed throughout the land
Last Line: According to the longer date and the shorter one
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Travel