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| Searching... Subject: TRAVEL Matches Found: 2428 "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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: The terse old maxim of the poet's Last Line: To roll an answering anthem through the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips A DAY'S JOURNEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After your pleasant morning travel Last Line: And noonday's silver into gold. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it? Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful silvery tay Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay. Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips A DREAM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream? We sailed, I thought we sailed Last Line: Bristled with cities, us the sea receiv'd. Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A GOOD DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: Anconcito. The fisheater. Men were standing on cork rafts Last Line: In my head say please not now, I haven't quite lived yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips A MENDOCINO MEMORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in my lonely, eager youth I rode Last Line: Bearing the pines hewn out of oregon. Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Capriciously it wound about Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses. Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: I walked thru an old new england town Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A PLAIN DIRECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A PROLOGUE TO THE HARTZ-JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All I saw and heard when travelling Last Line: Under which he fancies fighting. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A PSALM OF TRAVEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like to leave my house and home Last Line: We'll dream our little dream together. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A RAILROAD YARD AT NIGHT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Faint forms of giant buildings in the night Last Line: Gleaming of silver underneath the stars. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Traffic; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK Poem Text First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow' Last Line: "is the one I married last year." Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips A SMALL EXCURSION, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a trip with me Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away. Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came to me in the night Last Line: On her starry towers. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad Last Line: O I will walk with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A STORY FOR ROSE ON THE MIDNIGHT FLIGHT TO BOSTON, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have traveled so far to remember Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way to lullaby town Last Line: Enters the gates of lullaby town. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes! Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 1. LONDON TO FOLKSTONE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A constant keeping-past of shaken trees Last Line: To where the pale sea brooded murmuring. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): A Trip To Paris And Belgium Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are upon the scheldt. We know we move Last Line: And clamor and the night. We are in ghent. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the highlands I'm off for a fortnight,' says jack Last Line: "why turn it, and then I can wear it for two." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips A UN PASSANT, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller, who at night, along the echoing street Last Line: Where leadest thou so late, thy patient weary steed? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown. Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips A WAY OF BEING, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There we go in cars, did you guess we wore sandals? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away Last Line: Together, together, and always to be. Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa Last Line: "I am home!" Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The same fat man with the fluorescent vest Last Line: Pulls in to take me home to brandon. Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love every stock and stone Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go there!' 'stay here!' Last Line: "to go." Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have seen your city Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity." Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind. Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our task is done! On gunga's breast Last Line: His peace on earth, -- his hope of heaven! Subject(s): Jungles; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN OPEN LETTER TO VOYAGER II, by JOHN UPDIKE 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go.... Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips ANABASIS: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source 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 Text 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'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 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'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'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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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'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'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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Last Line: Farewell and adieu. Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips AT THE EMBASSY, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Well, vision from the distant west Last Line: They haven't the ambassador. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips AT THE 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Over the country, from coast to coast Last Line: Mine is the trunk that goes astray. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADE OF EGREGIOUSNESS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I travelled now from coast to coast Last Line: "I never called a waiter ""george." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: HAMLET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the Last Line: "thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there." Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Travel; Journeys; Trips BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source 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'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 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 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nomadic hearts know there is no rose Subject(s): Travel; Memory; Journeys; Trips BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine. Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this Last Line: But, amen, yours. Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips BROUGHTY FERRY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of broughty ferry Last Line: From the top the ships sailing on the silvery tay. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips BRUISES, by COLEMAN BRYAN BARKS Poem Source First Line: Paint samples Subject(s): Travel BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the cold streets tangled like old strings, Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source 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'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 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'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'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's Biography Last Line: Than populous Subject(s): Space & Space Travel BUT OUTER SPACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source 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'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'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 Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794) Last Line: In her hem? Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips CAR 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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source 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'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 Source 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's Biography First Line: Since a harebrained devil has changed the world Subject(s): Travel CATULLUS XI, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source 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 Text 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright though the boughs of the moon like a dead planet Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Self; Travel; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Journeys; Trips 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 Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strong song tows Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS Poem Text First Line: Colorado, you are glorious Last Line: Near the mountains of our god. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips COLORED COUNTRIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: From greenland's icy mountains to / far-off borneo Last Line: Geography that's studied so. Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Greenland; September; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Source 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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night without end in the soaking dark Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips 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 Text 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees Last Line: So it always was, so shall ever be! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DE SENE VERONENSI, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man that all his days hath spent Last Line: This man hath liv'd, though that hath travell'd more. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DEATH'S BLUE-EYED GIRL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did the garden with its banked flowers Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DEATH'S BLUE-EYED GIRL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source 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 Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source 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 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 Text 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 Text 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's Biography First Line: Far up among the forest-belted mountains Subject(s): Travel DESTINATIONS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home is mysterious: a place to die, a place to breed Last Line: Short wind says “snow” Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark highway is lighted Last Line: Where there is only you. Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips 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 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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, when studying road atlases Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning a promise Subject(s): Railways; Travel; Egypt; Journeys; Trips DOVER TO MUNICH, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell! Before our prow Last Line: Layer on layer, the night came on. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips DOWN 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'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 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 Text 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 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 Text 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'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'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 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's Biography First Line: Pomp of egypt's elder day Subject(s): Travel EIGHTEEN-SEVENTY, SELS., by ARTHUR RIMBAUD 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'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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: No packing list, and no money Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source 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's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPISTLE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Travelling, saith horace, somewhere, in a letter Last Line: Safe in th' inspiring shade of sweet tranquillity. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips EPISTLE FROM ALGIERS (TO HORACE SMITH), by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear horace! Be melted to tears Last Line: I will palm no more puns upon you. Subject(s): Algiers; Puns; Smith, Horace (1779-1849); Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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 Source 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 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 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'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'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 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 Text 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 Text 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 Text 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING AT NIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down milk-bright colonnades Subject(s): Air Travel FLYING HOME FROM UTAH, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source 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'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 Text 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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips FROM THE ROAD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stops me is the big indifference Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips 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 Text 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'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 Text 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 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 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'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'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's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't walk across that bridge in hannibal Last Line: Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Travel; Violence; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips GHOSTS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source 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 Source 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 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Pastoral Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 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'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'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's Biography First Line: Mild melancholy, and sedate, he stands Subject(s): Travel HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The journey ends here Subject(s): Travel HOUSE BY THE SEA, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source 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'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'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 Text 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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a few years I roamed the country, pennsylvania, alabama, oregon Last Line: To the white throats, the thrushes, the cardinals singing in the miniature forest on the hill? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IMMOBILITY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source 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 Text 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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by. Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets Last Line: Aloud and here and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips IN 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'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 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 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 Text 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's Biography First Line: Now our white sail flutters down Last Line: Ghostlike sinks last night's last star? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips IN TUSCANY: IN FLORENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: O tuscan days, my true, gold-hearted days Last Line: I see thee now, o little tuscan town! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips INASMUCH, by DOROTHY SPROULE Poem Text First Line: You asked not whence we came, nor where we went Last Line: Name us your god that we may worship him. Subject(s): Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips INCIDENT AT BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges town is many a street Last Line: Of english liberty? Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us. Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTIONS: 8, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye powers unseen, to whom the bards of greece Last Line: His reason, fancy, and his heart unite. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands Last Line: Dewdrops of loning, jewels boxed in these blocks Subject(s): Air Travel; Cities; United States ISLAND CITIES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source 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's Biography Last Line: To him — sums misery Subject(s): Travel; Nature IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source 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'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'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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to Last Line: That's the way it is with me somehow. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips JAUNT, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verona, ohio / right 3 miles Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Journeys; Trips JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Fill us full of canned goods Last Line: And made us holler so? Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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 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 Text 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'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'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'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 Source 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'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 Text 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The LETTERS 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because they lived near a major airport Last Line: Wings? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Travel; Wheels; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are tired of those places Last Line: Beyond, a green continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips LOCH KATRINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch katrine in all thy majesty so grand Last Line: It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. Subject(s): Katrine, Loch (scotland); Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH LEVEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch leven, near by kinross Last Line: And the old wall around it is mouldering away Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LOCH NESS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch ness, / the truth to express Last Line: Oh, beautiful loch ness! I must bid you good-bye. Subject(s): Landscape; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LONDON, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text 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'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 Text 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'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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity Last Line: Still asking on down the road Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source 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 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'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's Biography First Line: I travelled among unknown men Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed. Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men""; Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the heart Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome. Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LUGGAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She carries her eyes from country to country Last Line: How it is good we only have two hands Subject(s): Absence; Strangers; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips 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's Biography First Line: I oft have heard of lydford law Last Line: Unless by some tin warrant. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Travel; Attorneys; Journeys; Trips LYNTON VERSES: 4. LYNTON TO PORLOCK (EXMOOR), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lynton when you drive to porlock Last Line: Shoot honey-tongued quintessence of july! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Text 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'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'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 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'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 First Line: I do not know what they are catching Subject(s): Travel MENDOCINO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MIDWAY THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We reach a place without a border Last Line: For the slow, unwinding spiral of our dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Text 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 Text 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source 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 Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Travel MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias. Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 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'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's Biography First Line: Soft, soft be thy sleep in the land of the west Last Line: But more loved, ...O, how few, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's christmas eve in texas Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae." Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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 Text 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 Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers Last Line: The days that carry us could be these. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIGHT, 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 Text 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'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 Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the train bears west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source 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'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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the high plains Last Line: At the end Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A montparnasse august / with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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'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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, by BECKMAN. JOSHUA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Melbourne, perth, darwin, townsville, Subject(s): Air Travel ODE TO THE ASTRONAUTS, by RON PADGETT Poem Text 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'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 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky! Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tagus farewell! That westward with thy streams Last Line: Of mighty love the wings for this me give. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): In Spain;of His Returne From Spaine;epigram: 22 Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON INHABITING AN ORANGE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All our roads go nowhere. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON LEAVING MRS. BROWN'S LODGINGS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So goodbye, mrs. Brown Last Line: But all's one for that, since I must and will away. Subject(s): Farewell; Moving & Movers; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips ON LYNN TERRACE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day to watch the blue wave curl and break Last Line: And hollow caves of night. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON 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'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 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'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 Text 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's Biography First Line: The road winds onward long and white Last Line: And the best of earth is here! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ON THE TAOS ROAD, by MAY REES Poem Text First Line: Two freighters, bronzed and lank, bend lightly down Last Line: Night's curtain half reveals a single star. Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Travel; Prairie Schooners; Journeys; Trips ON THE 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'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'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'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 Text 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains 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'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'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 Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thus should have been our travels Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER THE RANGES, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Says allan machardy, 'beyond the high ranges there's land for the men Last Line: "is, ""may god help him then!" Subject(s): Deception; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips OVER THE 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'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'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 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the early hours of the lovebirds Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips PARIS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source 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'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'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 Text 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's Biography First Line: This one on the platform Last Line: She boards with an assault motion. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips PASSENGERS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the gate, I sit in a row of blue seats Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips 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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child holds a pet Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Guns; Travel; Journeys; Trips PORT BOU, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source 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'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 Text 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poem Explanation 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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): New Zealand - Maoris; Travel RAVENNA, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source 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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Not less delighted do I call to mind Subject(s): Travel REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source 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'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 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's Biography First Line: When fierce pizarro's legions flew Subject(s): Travel REVERIE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark road journeys to the darkening sky Last Line: All, all at last must take their sorrow home. Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians RIGHT!, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun was high and strong Last Line: "leading to this!" Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips RIOUPEROUX, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High and solemn mountains guard riouperoux Last Line: And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy. Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips RIVERS INTO SEAS, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds Last Line: Adrift in the sea’s restless shouldering Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Seas; Rivers; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odd, the baby's scabbed face peeking over Last Line: Its motion that would begin like a blessing. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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's Biography First Line: Soft spread the southern summer night Last Line: Our evenings at saint cloud. Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled Last Line: Sit in the beautiful houses, mobbed by cars Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel; Journeys; Trips SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel SALT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source 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 Text 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'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 Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I go separately Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SAPPHICS: AT THE MOHAWK CASTLE, CANADA, by THOMAS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Ease is the prayer of him, who in a whaleboat / crossing lake champlain Last Line: Dabbling in sapphic. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it was water, poseidon presided Subject(s): Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Travel; Journeys; Trips SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name. Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Directed by the eyes of others Last Line: Theirs, no voyage is, no tunnel, door, nor way Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting 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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: One could pass valuable months Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SIESTA IN XBALBA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: At least at night, a streetlight Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SO LONG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source 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'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 Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source 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 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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'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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNETS, 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'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 SOUL, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trucker stops. Vanishing points. Mirages Last Line: Behind each salvation is stranded Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips SOUTHWESTERN SOULD, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source 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 Text 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's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source 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's Biography First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming Last Line: I think of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips STAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of gaspard that certainly was not / his real name Last Line: Knows full well that one must not follow it Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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 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 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'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'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 Text 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source 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 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 Text 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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mount the ox Last Line: I claim the man Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Travel; Journeys; Trips TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: COMING HOME ON THE OX'S BACK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source 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 Text 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'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 Text 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'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 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's Biography First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea Last Line: Sea. Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay Last Line: Back to its home—the sun. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A street there is in paris famous Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse! Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips THE BALLADE OF ALL OUT-DOORS, by RALPH P. PERRY Poem Text First Line: When the sky is getting mellow, and the Last Line: For its all out-doors a-callin' to its own. Subject(s): Pleasure; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE BARBER ABROAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said crimp the hair-dresser, when he Last Line: His hankering for greece! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barbers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIES AROUND US, by JESSE SILL Poem Text First Line: The beautiful scenes around us Last Line: Old utah, is just good enough for me. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills. Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE BLUE COAST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails THE BOWERS OF PARADISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, traveller, who hast wandered far Last Line: There are the bowers of paradise! Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure." Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: The road winds grey, deserted Last Line: Waiting for many feet. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CARAVAN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From underneath the carob shade Last Line: One bourn for every caravan! Subject(s): Caravans; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips THE CASTLE OF MAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient castle of the mains Last Line: To hear the birds singing and the humming of the bee. Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land Last Line: Vainly in hell let pluto domineer. Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE CHOICE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was weary Last Line: Hath such draught to sell?' Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day. Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE CLOUD, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One late spring evening in bohemia Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE COCKNEY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in my foreign travel Last Line: That was mentioned in the bill! Subject(s): Speech; Travel; Oratory; Orators; Journeys; Trips THE COHERENCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For whom the Last Line: Speech Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Dancing & Dancers; Music, Rock; Travel; Rock & Roll; Journeys; Trips THE COMEDIAN AS THE LETTER C, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy THE COMING OF LIGHT, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even this late it happens Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You send me your poems Last Line: If you will send me one of you Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE CUMMERBUND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sate upon her dobie Last Line: And swollow you outright. Subject(s): Nonsense; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CURSE OF THE WANDERING FOOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope of rest withdrawn me! Last Line: The curse of the wandering foot. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Curses; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by EMMA LEE GLENN Poem Text First Line: How far on the road to damascus Last Line: You have traveled this glorious day. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DARK WAGGON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water-wraith shrieked over clyde Last Line: Sir william wallace stept! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Travel; Wagons; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE DEAD EAGLE; WRITTEN AT ORAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen as he is, this king of birds still seems Last Line: Of glassy runnels bubbling over rocks. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Oran, Algeria; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DEATH OF PETER CLARK, by HUBERT H. PARRY Poem Text First Line: The sun was blazing fiercely on the cracked and dusty plain Last Line: And horses groan and labour, as the teamster rides beside. Alternate Author Name(s): Barwon Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some are home-sick - some two or three Last Line: Are your delinquent travellers! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DEN O' FOWLIS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful den o' fowlis, most charming to be seen Last Line: And such a blessing to the people shouldn't be forgot. Subject(s): Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE DEPARTURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this roadstead I have ridden Last Line: Sighed plaintively. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a journey to clifton Last Line: For the sense and the sound, they say, should be the same. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee Last Line: "see first of all thy native land." Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States THE ELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Blessed, blessed be the eld Last Line: The daughter of the eld. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE EMBARKATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee! Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fortu, fortu, my beloved one Last Line: In black from the skies! Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE EXCURSION: OR: O COLUMBUS!, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning when mrs. Murphy's treasure chest opens Last Line: And the seas fill up with the sharks of auld lang syne Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips THE EYES ARE ALWAYS BROWN, by GERALD STERN Poem Text 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of journeys repeatedly Subject(s): Travel; Rivers; Death; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE FAR-FARERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broad sun / the bright day Last Line: Return no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand Last Line: I, fa-hien.' Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jolly english yellowboy Last Line: With the dollars of peru! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE FLEETING VISITANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These parting words we have to say Last Line: Seems on its farewell tour Subject(s): Farewell;guests;travel; Parting;visiting;journeys;trips THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE FOURTH WISE MAN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE GOAL, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: We do not travel on beyond the place Last Line: With wings all spread to fly at one lone call. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Travel; Destiny; Journeys; Trips THE GOD OF NOON, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black goats I herded with my sister; they Last Line: From him the cammomile's kind use I learned. Subject(s): Kindness; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend. Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips THE GORING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arena dust rusted by four bulls' blood to a dull redness Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT OPEN SPACES, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spin me a yarn of the bounding sea Last Line: And so does his bank account. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT SAINT BERNARD, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night was again descending, when my mule Last Line: Bread to the hungry, to the weary rest. Subject(s): Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE HOUSE WITH THE PICTURE HUNG OVER THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "wherever we travel, by road or by rail" Last Line: The house with the picture hung over the door Subject(s): Home;travel; Journeys;trips THE HUNTER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunter crouches in his blind Subject(s): Hunting; Travel; Hunters; Journeys; Trips THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan! Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE IMPULSE OF SINGING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: That journey he made Last Line: How bitterly beautiful, before the madwomen ripped him? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INDIAN MAID. DEMARARIE, OCT. 27, 1781, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786) Poem Text First Line: The indian maid who lightly trips, / the dryad of the guava grove Last Line: Prove her the goddess of the place! Subject(s): Travel; West Indies; Journeys; Trips; Caribbean Islands THE INDIAN SIGN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I'm touring Last Line: "detour!" Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, by RICHARD POLWHELE Poem Text First Line: Each object by a few short years how changed! Last Line: Wear, like the joys they speak of, the pale cold damp of years! Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee. Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went over fossil hill Last Line: Flowers that I bless with living eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Wisdom; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Travel; Spiders; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY INTO FRANCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I came from england into france Last Line: Who (men thought) did the same Subject(s): Travel; Journeys;trips THE JOURNEY ON, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lips shall kiss thy brows! Last Line: As we together take the long, long journey on! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back. Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my key to happiness Last Line: My sugar and my cream. Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE Poem Text First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call. Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I set out for the land of content Last Line: I came to the land of content. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips THE LAST MAN: A CROCODILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the lilied nile I saw Last Line: Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat. Subject(s): Crocodiles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LAST SONG, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a long journey and a sore Last Line: (only within your arms is my content.) Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold Last Line: 09/30/80 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog-woggy Last Line: The world. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE TOBOGGAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Interpretation is an overworked word Last Line: For them it is heaven to climb and to ride. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sports Utility Vehicles; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LONG JOURNEY, by SUSAN R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: A ghostly caravan of women bowed Last Line: She weirdly plods her way fore'er detached. Subject(s): Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home! Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Now it's gold and gold! Last Line: And we strike it rich. Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The long trail calls! Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night. Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I thought I could get away Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the earth burns! Each pebble under foot Last Line: Oh, this is rest! Oh, this is paradise! Subject(s): Nature; Oases; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVER'S INTERDICT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War THE MASK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In open palm the old man cradles his Last Line: I leave with her naked countenance. Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE MEETING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old coach-road through a common of furze Last Line: And either went their way. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Journeys; Trips THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road Last Line: That's suffering to croak. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news Last Line: And again, on his way? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MOUNT, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have tempered haste Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MULTIVERSE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: When spring, to woods and wastes around Last Line: Far down that narrow glen. Subject(s): Travel; Murder; Journeys; Trips THE MUSMEE, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The musmee has brown-velvet eyes Last Line: O medeto gozarimas! Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE MYSTIC, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quest that calls me Last Line: Where just beyond lies god. Subject(s): God; Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NAME WRIT IN WATER (PLAZA DI SPAGNA, ROME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder's the window my poet would sit in Last Line: Listen! My waters will whisper his name. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NETHERLANDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green Last Line: And water seen -- Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE NEWPORT RAILWAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the newport railway Last Line: On the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHTINGALE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone warbler! Thy love-melting heart supplies Last Line: So kind and watchful is celestial love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bar in the commuter station steams Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail. Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE OLD MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend! Why, you seem bent on parish duty Last Line: The same old bounty and old welcome there. Subject(s): Facades; Hospitality; Strangers; Travel; Appearances; Journeys; Trips THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where they once dug for money Last Line: By the old marlborough road. Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE PACKET RAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave this western ocean, to the Last Line: It's the bloomin' western ocean what 'll get me when I'm dead! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven Last Line: The passing away of spain. Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PATH TO PANAMA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Bring your dredges, uncle sam Last Line: Along the path to panama. Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands? Last Line: The glory freedom radiates! Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE PERMANENT BRAND, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a maverick runnin' free Last Line: The first class lot from the mavericks! Subject(s): Love; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PILGRIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle pilgrim, tell me why Last Line: God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Journeys; Trips THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty. Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, he never can tell Last Line: The world about. Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PIPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well Last Line: You can never pipe my fancy from my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 106, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The layered bloom of hills and streams Last Line: What more could I want in that land of dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born thirty years ago Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 176, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall the places I've been Last Line: I would hug my knees in a frigid wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 23, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seasonal round never stops Last Line: Depart and don't return Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 29, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pole your three winged galleons Last Line: I have nothing to convey Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 43, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white crane carries a bitter flower Last Line: His wife and children don't know him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cranes (birds); Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we. Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips THE PORT, by JAMES MACFARLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, upon a path of fairy flow'rs Last Line: And canopied with cloud! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PRAIRIE SPEAKING, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prairie Last Line: I am the prairie Subject(s): Love; Sea; Tourists; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE PROGRESS OF ERROR, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, muse, (if such a theme, so dark, so long) Last Line: Bled, groaned and agonized, and died, in vain. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What were our forefathers trying Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay! Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green. Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belly down on the rug Last Line: Durango, chinook, ramona, monongahela. Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE READERSHIP, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I suppose must have been orbiting all the time Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE REAL TRAVELERS, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was supposed to snow, but it rained Last Line: The real travelers etting out for mars Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Neighbors; Journeys; Trips THE REPEATED JOURNEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again and again I make the intolerable journey Last Line: We were for a season Subject(s): Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE RIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We rose in the clear, cool dawning, and greeted the eastern star Last Line: And ride to the pearl of cities from the huts of kerf hawar. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips THE RIDER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rode out over the moorland Last Line: And his ears were stopped with clay. Subject(s): Travel; Wales; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAD, by GEORGE ROBERT MCKEITH Poem Text First Line: What if I cannot see the road Last Line: And reach the final goal! Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE, by ELEANOR DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The road I traveled yesterday Last Line: At the end of the road to everywhere! Subject(s): Future; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROAMER: BOOK 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harken, o outcast race, to man outcast, / into the desert driven in his youth Last Line: Crying, and on its forehead was a star. Subject(s): Strength; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SAILING LIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading my paper, dully enough, when just as it chanced, I found Last Line: Never, never, never get to go! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD WITH HIS SON, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O what harper could worthily harp it Last Line: Of seven or eight. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SEA-HOUNDS, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Relentless, the sea - hounds follow on Last Line: In spain or portugal or bright bombay. Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SECRETARY; WRITTEN AT THE HAGUE, 1696, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix Last Line: So blest as the englishen heer secretar' is. Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims Last Line: Seems a lost star. Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A town lies in the valley Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise. Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THE SNAIL'S PACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the snake to the snail: 'how absurdly you crawl!' Last Line: "can any one beat me in traversing space?" Subject(s): Snails; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Straight from the cool green arms Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam. Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All / wrong Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9. VISION OF THE WORLD, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I walked, in raptures high Last Line: As I in vision view'd! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide Last Line: Violently southward Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG: SIGURD'S RIDE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So up and up they journeyed, and ever as they went Last Line: And wends his ways through the twilight the foe of the gods to meet. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STRANGE HOURS TRAVELERS KEEP, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The markets never rest Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THE SWEATER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will lose you. It is written Last Line: His death into the sweater. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Loss; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Telephones; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE THREE MUSICIANS, by AUBREY BEARDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Along the path that skirts the wood Last Line: Red as his guide-book grows, moves on, and offers up a prayer for france. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TICKET AGENT, by EDMUND LEAMY Poem Text First Line: Like any merchant in a store Last Line: He deals in dreams, and calls it -- work! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TINAJERA NOTEBOOK, by FORREST GANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through my torso, the smooth Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TOURISTS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving was their passion Last Line: The state of simple being Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held. Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAIN-MISSER; AT UNION STATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ll where in the world my eyes has bin Last Line: Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELED MAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out Last Line: Who has not strayed beyond his meadows fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELER, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELER, by ANNE MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: A loosened leaf blown by the casual wind Last Line: Took up the savage journey home again. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELING MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can Last Line: Will welcome the traveling man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire. Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER, by MARJORIE WEIRICH Poem Text First Line: When I had thought a journey I would take Last Line: To book-fed dreams? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER HEART, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would be one with the dark, dark earth Last Line: When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough! Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller Last Line: That welcomes his return. Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRIP FROM CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shoe-fixery and on the train Subject(s): Travel; Pleasure; Journeys; Trips THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE TRYST AT BETHLEHEM, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The daily tasks are set aside Last Line: "my tryst at bethlehem." Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Travel; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by Last Line: At the turn of the road.' Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TWO TRAVELLERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas evening, and before my eyes Last Line: Had passed, and he was lost to sight. Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE VERMONT THRASHERS ARE COMING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yep; there they come there down the road Last Line: "say; jabe, you've got to 'feed 'er in.'" Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Wheels; Journeys; Trips THE VERMONTER DEPARTING, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He drove alone beside his sugar bush Last Line: All that last hour before the evening train. Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips THE VILLAGE OF TAYPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be Last Line: Along the bonnie banks o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VISITOR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly the other side of this world wide Last Line: Pilgrimage singing in the stranger's mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who climbs the equatorial main Last Line: It sees all heaven before its view. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE OF THE 'OPHIR', by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of our race, we send you one Last Line: And strength to service vowed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE; TO MAXIME DU CAMP, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the child, in love with maps and pictures Last Line: What matter? Into the unknown in search of the new! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus-like, I sailed into the night Last Line: Life's indies lay behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare delight of seeing Last Line: And where its voices call, thither my steps must be! Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet were life, - this life, if we Last Line: O'er the happy grass to find me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love, - my chosen, - but not mine! Last Line: Thine own, and only thine, my love, forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour of hesperus! The hour when feeling Last Line: And to the distance sighingly entreat her? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is unkind, unkind! Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CONDEMNED ONES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above thy child I saw thee bend Last Line: That hope to help us was not given! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: COUNT RINALDO RINALDI, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a dark-purple, moonlighted midnight Last Line: The eyes of mnemosyne there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: DESIRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden planet of the occident Last Line: Go forth, across the world, and find my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder that I loved her thus, that night? Last Line: Her mystic name. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: FATALITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen her, with her golden hair Last Line: And its wild white stars that love us. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: INDIAN LOVE SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body sleeps: my heart awakes Last Line: Through mist and darkness moves toward thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One yellow star, the largest and the last Last Line: That, through a rapture, I had toucht her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends! Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold Last Line: Of elephanta, the red. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A falling star that shot across Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love that deep within me lies Last Line: Its rooted growth beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SINCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words like to these were said, or dreamed Last Line: Must beat or break for. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shape to shape, all day Last Line: Of still desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE LAST MESSAGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fling the lattice open Last Line: Before the night is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE MAGIC LAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By woodland belt, by ocean bar Last Line: "to one sweet note, sighed ""italy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair Last Line: From perdition made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: VENICE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sylphs and ondines Last Line: To bury my heart -- one grave more to the many! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Venice, Italy; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: WARNINGS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, beware of witchery! Last Line: Cordelia! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: 'PRENSUS IN AEGAEO', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis toil must help us to forget Last Line: And leads me...Whither? Whither? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A L'ENTRESOL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One circle of all its golden hours Last Line: And the ghost of a dream I dreamed! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A REMEMBRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas eve and may when last, through tears Last Line: An age ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, mignonne, ma belle -- when you are gone Last Line: The poor thing's slumber. Let it still sleep on! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ASTARTE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the latest strife is lost, and all is done with Last Line: Mid the spirits that are passed beyond the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME AFTER THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clocks are calling three Last Line: Some women have gone mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME DURING THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard upon the dawn, and yet Last Line: Have beds below the willow! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AU CAFE ***, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A party of friends, all light-hearted and gay Last Line: In thy heart lurks a weird necromancer -- 't is thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Paris, France; Parties; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there Last Line: Non ti scordar di me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): At The Opera Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the days are silent all Last Line: "shall a voice still moan...""remember!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: MADAME LA MARQUISE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The folds of her wine-dark violet dress Last Line: ...Is it worth while to guess at all this? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: PROGRESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When liberty lives loud on every lip Last Line: Even to thyself? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Freedom; Travel; Liberty; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything Last Line: For truth, these tears are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SORCERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're a milk-white panther Last Line: Night is coming forth. Arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TERRA INCOGNITA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit beside her Last Line: Cold, unspotted, let her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little love, do you remember Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE LAST REMONSTRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! I am worse than thou didst once believe me Last Line: Still loving thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, I have a book at last Last Line: And you have not learned to read it. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TO MIGNONNE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At morning, from the sunlight Last Line: Things must rest so. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow is a day too far Last Line: Foresee the men we may be. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked about at hampton court Last Line: That pinched me all the while there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: BABYLONIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of simpering and grimace! Last Line: The inmate of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature! Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: SEE-SAW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a harlot, and I was a thief Last Line: With their hands, bless them all, in the popular purse! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger sent from burning lands Last Line: It never came to blossom. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE DEATH OF KING HACON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was odin that whispered in vingolf Last Line: Shall stand in the battle again. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the place by legends told Last Line: Or -- was it never found? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE LAST TIME THAT I MET LADY RUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are some things hard to understand Last Line: You see I can laugh. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: A QUIET MOMEMENT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay with me, lady, while you may! Last Line: Before again we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: THE HEART AND NATURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is calm; and calm, the skies Last Line: On michael's brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a quiet dream last night Last Line: That I could not speak a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake past midnight Last Line: "pray do not be afraid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Netherlands; Supernatural; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance, on earth, I shall not see thee ever Last Line: Soothe flowers in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: AUTUMN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: BLUEBEARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was to wed young fatima Last Line: "that night, in her own fatal hair." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If jesus came to earth again Last Line: The moving of thy hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou never hast sought to divine Last Line: That must yearn after thine till it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the babe that dies within the womb Last Line: And curst that death which steals this life's disguise. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Netherlands; Travel; Dead, The; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FAILURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen those that wore heaven's armor worsted Last Line: Last sentence! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Failure; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FATIMA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago thy cheek was bright Last Line: When I talk in my dreams? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy Last Line: A knife across her throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Check To Song Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: JACQUELINE, COUNTESS OF HOLLAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the twilight, or my fading sight Last Line: Thy hand, my husband, -- so -- upon thy breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Jacqueline Of Hainaut (1401-1436); Netherlands; Travel; Jacoba; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING LIMOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a wicked, old, gray king Last Line: And the love in her two large eyes? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: LEAFLESS HOURS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sun, through the spectral wood Last Line: Is stolen the very snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MACROMICROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the star of solitude Last Line: The sea-nymphs wander and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: METEMPSYCHOSIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She fanned my life out with her soft little sighs Last Line: Yonder's my way now. Give place, if you please. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MISANTHROPOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day's last light is dying out Last Line: God succeeds at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MYSTERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour was one of mystery Last Line: A song too sad for rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night's in november: the winds are at strife Last Line: To my twenty-fourth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birthdays; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: SMALL PEOPLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm moon was up in the sky Last Line: A man, -- to insult and to shoot! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CANTICLE OF LOVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once heard an angel, by night, in the sky Last Line: But there's one will not listen, and that one I love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CASTLE OF KING MACBETH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the castle of king macbeth Last Line: Whom no one knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE FUGITIVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no quiet left in life Last Line: And drove her wild across the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gray sand-hills, o'er the cold sea-shore; where, dumbly peering Last Line: Teach me unspoken, steadfast endurance; -- the silence of will! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; North Sea; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, whom you might see Last Line: O, yet we might........Good by! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Peddlers & Peddling; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there? Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not blame thee, that my life Last Line: Have nothing left to dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Hope; Netherlands; Travel; Optimism; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that never more in this world's shade Last Line: Kind offices to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PRAYER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My saviour, dare I come to thee Last Line: Lord! There is nothing hid from thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Palingensis Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PSALM OF CONFESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full soon doth sorrow make her covenant Last Line: Breaks, breaking from afar through a night shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Confessions; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EPILOGUE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Change without term, and strife without result Last Line: Thy tale is true, however weakly worded. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: THE SOUL'S SCIENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can history prove the truth which hath Last Line: Or vex me not with learned dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips Last Line: And white death watching over red-lipped love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul lives on. What lives on with the soul? Last Line: A little while of what was once so sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 3, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nurse of an ailing world, beloved night! Last Line: Of suns that set not on eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WATERSHED; LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN MUNICH AND VERONA, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black mountains pricked with pointed pine Last Line: I flowed to italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WAY TO TRAVEL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people travel in their autos Last Line: Of course it is the pocketbook! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells! Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE WEST, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We followed them into the west Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WESTERN JOURNALIST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a wonderful town,' said the newspaper Last Line: "nor climate a career." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Newspapers; Television - Interviewing; Travel; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists; Journeys; Trips THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake Last Line: As the waters fill the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: I met him on the lachlan side Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo! Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE WINTER TRAVELER, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God help thee, traveler, on thy journey far Last Line: His lonely bark through the tempestuous tide. Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Journeys; Trips THE WONDER-SPRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, there's joy in the spume and the wonder-spray Last Line: To the land that the gods endow. Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WORLD, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It burns in the void Last Line: Upheld by stillness. Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Variant Title(s): The Dresser Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off Last Line: "please write, ""I know." Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips 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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Memory / was not to be trusted Subject(s): Memory; Travel THIN AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By holding one's head stock-still and measuring Last Line: Squashed snails, were the world one shade more solid Subject(s): Air Travel THIN AIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source 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 Text 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's Biography First Line: The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack Last Line: Ship to the editor, marked c. O. D. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips 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'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 Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium Last Line: My heart at that location is present. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs Last Line: Exist the vitals of me. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was Last Line: There. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode Last Line: Of hermit happiness. Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How smiled the land of france Last Line: Gladness in heaven! Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO A 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's Biography First Line: Since long ago, a child at home Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips TO ARCADY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, singer, of the way Last Line: "love's at home in arcady!" Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source 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's Biography First Line: Go then to italy; but mind Last Line: With little nelly nestling there. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips TO DR. MOORE, IN ANSWER TO POETICAL EPISTLE BY HIM IN WALES, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While in long exile far from you I roam Last Line: And strives to utter what it feels, in vain. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Moore, Dr. John (1729-1802); Travel; Journeys; Trips TO 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: To go to lvov. Which station Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Travel; Lviv, Ukraine; Lemberg, Austria; Journeys; Trips TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE), by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I too have travelled in the unknown land Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit! Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO HENRIETTA, ON HER DEPARTURE FOR CALAIS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When little people go abroad, wherever they may roam Last Line: "is cat instead of rabbit, you must answer, ""tant mi-eux!" Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HIS DEAR FRIEND MR. JOHN EMELY, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have other nations got that tempting art? Last Line: And to thee my dejected life confine. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips TO HIS MISTRESS UPON GOING TO TRAVEL, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, do not now delay me Last Line: Which restrained, a heart is broken. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO 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 |