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First Line: "oh! I have been north, and I have been south"
Subject(s): Travel;truth; Journeys;trips


7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent
Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon.
Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips


A CAPPELLA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five days of driving with no voices
Last Line: Earth to the contour of its eloquence.
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


A CHILD'S HOME - LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The terse old maxim of the poet's
Last Line: To roll an answering anthem through the gates.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Home; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions
Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips


A DAY'S JOURNEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After your pleasant morning travel
Last Line: And noonday's silver into gold.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A DESCRIPTION OF LONDON, by JOHN BANCKS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses, churches, mixed together, / streets unpleasant in all weather
Last Line: This is london! How d'ye like it?
Subject(s): London; Thames (river); Travel; Journeys; Trips


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful silvery tay
Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A DREAM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it a dream? We sailed, I thought we sailed
Last Line: Bristled with cities, us the sea receiv'd.
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


A JOURNEY TO HELL: PART 3. THE PARISH POOR-OFFICERS, by EDWARD WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: These souls, my lord, assembled at the bar
Last Line: Shameful to own and scandalous to hear.
Subject(s): Christianity; Guests; Soul; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


A LAST GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anconcito. The fisheater. Men were standing on cork rafts
Last Line: In my head say please not now, I haven't quite lived yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire
Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips


A MENDOCINO MEMORY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in my lonely, eager youth I rode
Last Line: Bearing the pines hewn out of oregon.
Subject(s): Mendocino, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A MOUNTAIN ROAD, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Capriciously it wound about
Last Line: In wealth of scents and roses.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


A NEW-ENGLAND TOWN-AT NOON, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked thru an old new england town
Last Line: Without purpose or will to stop itself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie
Subject(s): City & Town Life; New England; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car
Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more.
Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These winds and suns of spring
Last Line: 03/26/80
Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


A PLAGUED JOURNEY, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no warning rattle at the door
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat
Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


A PROLOGUE TO THE HARTZ-JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All I saw and heard when travelling
Last Line: Under which he fancies fighting.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A PSALM OF TRAVEL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to leave my house and home
Last Line: We'll dream our little dream together.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A RAILROAD YARD AT NIGHT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faint forms of giant buildings in the night
Last Line: Gleaming of silver underneath the stars.
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Traffic; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


A SEASIDE INCIDENT, by MARC EUGENE COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why, bob, you dear old fellow'
Last Line: "is the one I married last year."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Vandyke
Subject(s): Egypt; India; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


A SMALL EXCURSION, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take a trip with me
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun
Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away.
Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One came to me in the night
Last Line: On her starry towers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


A SONG OF THE ROAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O I will walk wity you, my lad
Last Line: O I will walk with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Roads; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


A 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have traveled so far to remember
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the way to lullaby town
Last Line: Enters the gates of lullaby town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee
Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes!
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips


A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 1. LONDON TO FOLKSTONE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A constant keeping-past of shaken trees
Last Line: To where the pale sea brooded murmuring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): A Trip To Paris And Belgium
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are upon the scheldt. We know we move
Last Line: And clamor and the night. We are in ghent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am footsore and very weary
Last Line: And he only can give me rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the highlands I'm off for a fortnight,' says jack
Last Line: "why turn it, and then I can wear it for two."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A UN PASSANT, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveller, who at night, along the echoing street
Last Line: Where leadest thou so late, thy patient weary steed?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A VISIT FROM ABROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A speck went blowing up against the sky
Last Line: And flew away. ... I fired at him but missed.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


A VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lives of frail men are compar'd by the sages
Last Line: For indeed I have ever been true to the crown.
Subject(s): Booth, Sir George (1622-1684); Coriat, Thomas (1577-1617); Ireland; Travel; Coriate, Thomas; Irish; Journeys; Trips


A WAY OF BEING, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There we go in cars, did you guess we wore sandals?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt
Last Line: Home.
Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


A WEDDING-DAY GALLOP (EARLY CALIFORNIA), by IRENE HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gallop with me, love, away and away
Last Line: Together, together, and always to be.
Subject(s): California; Home; Horseback Riding; Love; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa
Last Line: "I am home!"
Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


ABROAD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From place to place thou'rt wandering still
Last Line: It was a dream.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ACHONRY (THE LEGEND OF ERIN'S HOPE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mood of the spring time subtly crept
Last Line: "^1^ ""malo mori quam foedari""—""death sooner than dishonour!"" see notes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Bells; Clergy; Legends, Irish; Monasteries; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Abbeys; Journeys; Trips


ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider
Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want."
Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ADDISON COUNTY, VERMONT, CLAY, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The north vermonter who would fain
Last Line: In travelling over first-class clay.
Subject(s): Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips


ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well may'st thou halt, and gaze with brightening eye
Last Line: On which it should be touched, would melt away.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ADVENTURES OF KING ROBERT THE BRUCE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King robert the bruce's deadly enemy, john of lorn
Last Line: And such was the life, alas! King robert the bruce led!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AFRICAN VIOLETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: How the wind shrieks!
Last Line: Of far-off africa.
Subject(s): Africa; Flowers; Jungles; Travel; Violets; Journeys; Trips


AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound
Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away.
Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks
Last Line: Give us with the saints a place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips


ALBANY BUS STATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The same fat man with the fluorescent vest
Last Line: Pulls in to take me home to brandon.
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips


ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain
Last Line: Earth beneath, and stars above.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


AMSTERDAM, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pointed houses lean so you would swear
Last Line: Under a gable: here lived francis jammes.
Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Jammes, Francis (1868-1938); Memory; Paintings & Painters; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AN ADDRESS TO THE NEW TAY BRIDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery tay
Last Line: Near by dundee and the bonnie magdalen green.
Variant Title(s): The Railway Bridge Of The Silver Tay
Subject(s): Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love every stock and stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Americans In England; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go there!' 'stay here!'
Last Line: "to go."
Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AN ENGLISHMAN VISITS PHILADELPHIA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I have seen your city
Last Line: "I shall remember its chaste dignity."
Subject(s): Cities; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PULTENEY, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pult'ney, methinks you blame my breach of word
Last Line: All frenchmen are of petit-maitre kind.
Subject(s): England; France; Paris, France; Pulteney, William. 1st Earl Of Bath; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our task is done! On gunga's breast
Last Line: His peace on earth, -- his hope of heaven!
Subject(s): Jungles; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AN OPEN ROSE, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we say that the rose is open? It opens as the
Last Line: Water, far inside the rose's petals. Where you go, I go....
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Roses; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sprang for the side-holts - my gripsack and I
Last Line: Was no more than its due. 'twas the lecture they meant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climbed the stair in antwerp church
Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bruges, Belgium; Eyck, Jan Van (1395-1441); Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Travel; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans; Journeys; Trips


ARE YOU THE COVE?, by JOSEPH FURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Are you the cove?' he spoke the words
Last Line: "where I can doss tonight."
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Tom
Subject(s): Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 1, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bend of the river brings into view two triumphal arches
Last Line: By misty waters and rainy sands, while the yellow dusk thickens.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 2, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are almost come to hsun-yang: how my thoughts are stirred
Last Line: They have taken the trouble, these civil people, to meet their new prefect!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the land their long lines pass
Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn.
Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


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


AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing
Last Line: Farewell and adieu.
Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


AT THE EMBASSY, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, vision from the distant west
Last Line: They haven't the ambassador.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the truth as I see it, my dear
Last Line: Out in the wind and the rain.
Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Life; Marriage; Pleasure; Travel; Truth; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: They drive me out of my country
Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew.
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have bridged you, o missouri
Last Line: The romance of yesteryear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Ferry Boats; Missouri; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin
Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips


BACK HOME, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To live is to go on a journey
Last Line: To die is to come back home.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


BACK TO ALBANY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bird turned loose among the flowers
Last Line: Sent back to boost for albany.
Subject(s): Albany, New York; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


BALDOVAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scenery of baldovan
Last Line: And quacking in their innocent play.
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Walking; Woods; Journeys; Trips


BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE JOURNEY TO HEL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aesir's chorus / fast! Ride fast!
Last Line: And silence held its breath for what should come.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLAD OF THE CANAL, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were crowded in the cabin
Last Line: When the morn looked through the smoke.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADE OF A TRAVELLER'S JINX, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the country, from coast to coast
Last Line: Mine is the trunk that goes astray.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADE OF EGREGIOUSNESS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travelled now from coast to coast
Last Line: "I never called a waiter ""george."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: HAMLET, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hamlet, whom the cracked brains of others importune, has made the
Last Line: "thrice I've made the tour of the world, and was sure I'd meet you there."
Subject(s): Shakespeare - Hamlet; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: KING CLAUDIUS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cypress, geraniums, bleak hedge of my parterre, from the chase I
Last Line: Madame, you need not fear. I shall have drunk the wine.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dramatists; Flowers; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Travel; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips


BALMORAL CASTLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful balmoral castle
Last Line: And thee dark river dee.
Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


BEAUTIFUL ABERFOYLE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains and glens of aberfoyle are beautiful to sight
Last Line: When the face of nature's green in the spring of the year.
Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Mountains; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL BALMERINO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful balmerino on the bonnie banks of tay
Last Line: They can walk along the braes o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Castles; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see
Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee.
Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL COMRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away, away!
Last Line: Also pines, ferns, and beautiful oaks, I do declare.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Villages; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen
Last Line: Therefore I pronounce you to be the pride of fair scotland.
Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL MONIKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful monikie! With your trees and shrubberies green
Last Line: Which supplies the people with water belonging dundee.
Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NAIRN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye tourists who wish to be away
Last Line: Therefore I would recommend nairn for balmy pure air.
Subject(s): Hotels; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Vacation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NEWPORT ON THE BRAES O' THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie mary, the maid o' the tay
Last Line: Along the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Newport, Rhode Island; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL NORTH BERWICK AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: North berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green
Last Line: Where the tourist can enjoy himself and be free from strite
Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL ROTHESAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful rothesay, your scenery is most grand
Last Line: After viewing the beautiful scenery of rothesay.
Subject(s): Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL TORQUAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye lovers of the picturesque, away
Last Line: And 'tis good for the health to reside there.
Subject(s): England; Guests; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; English; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges
Last Line: Its name on our knees.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests
Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies an old, worn highway winding far
Last Line: Defying sense to fathom.
Subject(s): New England; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


BEYOND THE HAZE (A WINTER RAMBLE REVERIE), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the road was straight, the afternoon was gray"
Last Line: And all of a sudden find a trite relief
Subject(s): Happiness;travel;winter; Joy;delight;journeys;trips


BIRDS OF PASSAGE: PRELUDE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: What a twitter! What a tumult! What a whirr of wheeling wings!
Last Line: Have men's generations vanished, waned and vanished into night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


BISHOP GLOBE-TROTTER, by LEWIS SASSE II    Poem Text                    
First Line: Being raised to the purple gave me an itching foot
Last Line: Buddhists, confucianists, christians, and an atheist.
Subject(s): Cairo; Prayer; Religion; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl
Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up
Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips


BOLERO 9, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nomadic hearts know there is no rose
Subject(s): Travel; Memory; Journeys; Trips


BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me
Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine.
Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE DUNDEE IN 1878, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, bonnie dundee! I will sing in thy praise
Last Line: And in conclusion, I will call thee bonnie dundee!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Praise; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife
Last Line: Chorus—
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay
Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got
Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips


BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neglected transcripts on the steps of
Last Line: And april dung storms.
Subject(s): Confessions; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BROTHERS: 7. STILL THERE IS MERCY, THERE IS GRACE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How otherwise / could I have come to this
Last Line: But, amen, yours.
Subject(s): Creation; Grace; Mercy; Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips


BROUGHTY FERRY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient castle of broughty ferry
Last Line: From the top the ships sailing on the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BRUSSELS IN WINTER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering the cold streets tangled like old strings,
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing a letter he said
Last Line: Slowly he drove up to the starting line
Subject(s): Isle Of Wight; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


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


BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom'
Last Line: Fore the sun went down!
Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath
Last Line: My song to the sea.
Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


CABOOSE THOUGHTS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's going to come out all right-do you know?
Last Line: They get along -- and we'll get along.
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


CALGARY STATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dazzled by sun and drugged by space
Last Line: While a new nation clamors at our gate!
Subject(s): Calgary, Canada; Homeless; Poverty; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CALIFORNIA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen the world, I've traveled far
Last Line: My heart doth yield to thee.
Subject(s): California; Cities; Home; Roads; Travel; Urban Life; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


CALIFORNIA'S HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before us lie the seas which bring the east unto the west
Last Line: As the future goes marching on.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; California; Patriotism; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Journeys; Trips


CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794)
Last Line: In her hem?
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


CARCASSONNE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm growing old, I've sixty years
Last Line: He never gazed on carcassonne.
Subject(s): Carcassonne, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up
Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De
Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


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


CHADOR, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a taxi in isfahan we have no language
Last Line: As the river bosoms the brooch of the sun.
Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHARADES: 1, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stood at greenwich, motionless amid
Last Line: "remarked, ""by jove, a bird!"
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN BLUES, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waiting for the streetcar in san francisco
Last Line: A second ballroom appears. / empty
Subject(s): Chinatown, San Francisco; Shopping; Streets; Tourists; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN UNVISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the sybil book of youth
Last Line: Chinatown, o chinatown.
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN VISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: From sullen skies a cheerless rain
Last Line: "china gel no li!"
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHRISTMAS AT SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand
Last Line: Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Christmas; Sea; Travel; Nativity, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


CHRISTMAS NEW, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A story is told of three wise men who travelled over the plains
Last Line: They can live, and give, and live.
Subject(s): Christmas; Generosity; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips


CINEMA OF A MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is bright though the boughs of the moon like a dead planet
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Self; Travel; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Journeys; Trips


CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw
Last Line: Bathed in light!
Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips


CODA, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strong song tows
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


COLORADO, by FLORA BELLE DENNIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Colorado, you are glorious
Last Line: Near the mountains of our god.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Rest; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


COLORED COUNTRIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From greenland's icy mountains to / far-off borneo
Last Line: Geography that's studied so.
Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Greenland; September; Travel; Journeys; Trips


COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make
Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley
Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally.
Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


COMMUTERS, by ADELE M. RYERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They faintly smile or weakly grin
Last Line: "of knowing they have to return on the ""5:15"" train."
Subject(s): Commuters; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


CORINNA TO TANAGRA, FROM ATHENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tanagra! Think not I forget
Last Line: Why linger? I must haste, or lose the delphic bays.
Subject(s): Tanagra, Greece; Travel; Journeys; Trips


COUSIN AGGIE: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seal of sixty summers now
Last Line: If gone before, we soon shall meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins; Marriage; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


DA POSTA-CARD FROM NAPOLI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, you gon' sail for italy?
Last Line: No peecture-card from napoli?
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DARK DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirring wheels that grind beneath me
Last Line: Black the night or bright the day.
Subject(s): Prayer; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


DARK HARBOR: 1, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night without end in the soaking dark
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land
Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms.
Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


DAY BY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With staff and shoon I journey
Last Line: Fares onward day by day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DAY COACH, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tickets please
Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills.
Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


DE GUSTIBUS', by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees
Last Line: So it always was, so shall ever be!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DE SENE VERONENSI, by CLAUDIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy the man that all his days hath spent
Last Line: This man hath liv'd, though that hath travell'd more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DEATH'S BLUE-EYED GIRL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When did the garden with its banked flowers
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone
Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow.
Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips


DEEP IN EUROPE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I a dark hull floating between two lock-gates
Last Line: The blackened cathedral, heavy as a moon, causes ebbs and flows
Subject(s): Cities; Europe; Streets; Travel; Urban Life; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


DEPARTED TRAVELLERS, by GRANT HYDE CODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been exiled among stony hilltops
Last Line: Have wistful eyes.
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips


DEPARTURE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun is just completing his long day
Last Line: Without an earthly fear, nor dread, nor doubt.
Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


DESCRIPTIVE JOTTINGS OF LONDON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon london bridge and viewed the mighty throng
Last Line: Mr spurgeon was the only man I heard speaking proper english I do declare.
Subject(s): London; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DESTINATIONS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home is mysterious: a place to die, a place to breed
Last Line: Short wind says “snow”
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DESTINATIONS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark highway is lighted
Last Line: Where there is only you.
Subject(s): Cities; Hearts; Love; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


DILEMMA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows fall as the sun sinks down
Last Line: Or be lost on a midnight-road?
Subject(s): Night; Shadows; Sun; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


DISCOVERY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I traveled the road of the restless
Last Line: And the god of love were one.
Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips


DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit!
Last Line: At the foot of the mountain.
Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


DISTANT VOICES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I left my home for travelling
Last Line: I'll find—perhaps in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DIVINE ADVENTURE, by DOROTHY SPROULE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unmoored and free my ships go out
Last Line: A crown linked to a cross.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, when studying road atlases
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


DOUBLE PORTRAIT WITH TRAINS, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning a promise
Subject(s): Railways; Travel; Egypt; Journeys; Trips


DOVER TO MUNICH, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, farewell! Before our prow
Last Line: Layer on layer, the night came on.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


DOWN THE RIVER, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, the sound of it drawing nearer
Last Line: Down the river that bears him, dead.
Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Travel; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'!
Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


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


DRUMMER HODGE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They throw in drummer hodge, to rest
Last Line: His stars eternally.
Variant Title(s): The Dead Drummer
Subject(s): Boer War; Travel; War; South African War; Journeys; Trips


EAST TEXAS, by IRENE DENMAN KISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're traveling today in east texas
Last Line: Where the red hilly highway ends and starts.
Subject(s): Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips


EBENEZER-GRAMS: 2. UNKEL EB IS SPEEDIN', by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unkel eb is now a speedin'
Last Line: Wher weery peeple pass.
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


EDINBURGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of edinburgh!
Last Line: But that you are the grandest city in scotland at the present day!
Subject(s): Cities; Edinburgh, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


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


ELLIS ISLAND, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three thousand miles of atlantic seas and a throb
Last Line: "the grain of sand, the earth, the soul, our country—the word ""god!"
Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


EMIGRATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No packing list, and no money
Last Line: And good evening from a lighted coast
Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips


EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 2. TREASURE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My trunk brought home the silken shawl
Last Line: And on and on --
Subject(s): Danube (river); Rome, Italy; Travel; Treasures; Venice, Italy; Journeys; Trips


EPIGRAM ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sir drake, whom well the world's end knew"
Last Line: His fellow traveller
Subject(s): "consolation;drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);travel;" Journeys;trips


EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand
Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea.
Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


EPISTLE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Travelling, saith horace, somewhere, in a letter
Last Line: Safe in th' inspiring shade of sweet tranquillity.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


EPISTLE FROM ALGIERS (TO HORACE SMITH), by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear horace! Be melted to tears
Last Line: I will palm no more puns upon you.
Subject(s): Algiers; Puns; Smith, Horace (1779-1849); Travel; Journeys; Trips


EPITAPH ON A WAITER, by DAVID MCCORD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: By and by
Variant Title(s): Waiter;on A Waiter
Subject(s): Travel; Waiters & Waitresses; Journeys; Trips


ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot
Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;by The Sea;sunset And Sea;holy Calm;on The Sea-shore Near Calais;composed Upon The Beach, Near Calais;the Holiness Of Childhood;composed Upon The Beach Near Calais, August, 1802
Subject(s): God; Nature; Pantheism; Travel; Journeys; Trips


EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Last Line: Lone upon wide wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying
Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died.
Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When seated in my easy chair
Last Line: Lost in the southern sea.
Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


FAREWELL OUR FATHERS' LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell our fathers' land
Last Line: Then farewell our fathers' land, &c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


FAREWELL TO MALTA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, ye joys of la valette
Last Line: And bless the gods I've got a fever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Malta; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AND THE AEROPLANE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, 'mandy, I got home alive
Last Line: And a little bigger load.
Subject(s): Clergy; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle
Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains!
Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth
Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way.
Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War


FOLLOWERS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving east on buddha's birthday
Last Line: And climb a tree though few of us do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Introspection; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row
Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


FREIGHTIN', by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty miles from taggart's store
Last Line: Out the stretchin' road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


FROM A LONG WAY OUT OF PAH-GATZIN-KAY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With all those I love
Last Line: I hold myself in my own arms like a dead friend
Subject(s): China; Travel; Weariness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


FROM BOURBAH TO BULLAGREEN, by JACK MOSES    Poem Text                    
First Line: You take my tip, for stick and slip
Last Line: From bourbah to bullagreen.
Subject(s): Desolation; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FROM GRENOBLE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now have I seen, in graisivaudan's vale
Last Line: And the rose-garden of my gracious home.
Subject(s): Grenoble, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In italy how comes the spring?
Last Line: In italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips


FROM THE GULF, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Store cattle from nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past
Last Line: What's ours to fare, by god they'll share! For we've been droving too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou pleasant island, whose rich garden-shores
Last Line: Bright in the dubious track of after years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece; Iona, Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FROM THE ROAD, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What stops me is the big indifference
Subject(s): Automobiles; Travel; Cars; Journeys; Trips


GARDEN AT HEIDELBERG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill me the beaker
Last Line: For this fresh air and fragrant wine.
Subject(s): Heidelberg, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we
Last Line: But never stay abroad to play.
Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips


GEORGE WYNDHAM: JUNE 8TH, 1913, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldier, poet, courtier, / he was these and more than these
Last Line: The white road thou travellest by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Travel; Wyndham, George. 3d Earl Of Egremont; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


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


GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep
Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell
Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up
Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GHAZALS: 31, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't walk across that bridge in hannibal
Last Line: Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Travel; Violence; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At last we've reached the famous place
Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude.
Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GLASGOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful city of glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean
Last Line: Chorus.
Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


GLENWOOD SPRINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under doc holliday's / weary eyes
Last Line: As mountains
Subject(s): Hotels; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


GO!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ship was waiting in the bay
Last Line: As we two go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple
Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day
Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along.
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips


GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She always wanted to be dorothy gayle
Last Line: Sailboats like dropped handkerchiefs below me.
Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


GREENLAND ICY MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand
Last Line: Let them think of the cold and hardships greenland sailors have to fight.
Subject(s): Continents; Earth; Greenland; Tourists; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


GUNS AS KEYS: AND THE GREAT GATE SWINGS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Due east, far west. Distant as the nests of the
Last Line: Through a wide gateway. Occident -- orient -- after fifty years.
Subject(s): Asia; Travel; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Journeys; Trips


HAVE YOU (ON THE ROAD TO KINLOCHEVEN), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you tramped about in winter, when your / boots were minus soles?
Last Line: You do not know the happiness that fills a navvy's life.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All ashore that's going!'
Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock.
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more the sun is shining
Last Line: Defy the sea again!
Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


HAWAIIAN ISLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaiian isles, like emeralds
Last Line: In their fair land of flowers.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


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


HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath
Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains!
Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HERE HE IS!, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jim's got back. An' who is jim?
Last Line: Jim's got back!
Subject(s): Gypsies; Travel; Gipsies; Journeys; Trips


HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say
Last Line: "e poi muori!"
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HERON, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the copper marsh / I saw a stilted heron / wade the tidal wash
Last Line: Marsh flew through my flesh
Subject(s): Environment; Herons; Journeys; Trips


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant
Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


HILO'S HOSTELRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hilo, of thee I often dream!
Last Line: And plant it secretly.
Subject(s): Guests; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Visiting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy
Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HO FOR NOA NOA, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I think I'd like to go a
Last Line: But I'm not!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


HOME AT LAST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child, do not fear
Last Line: There we shall sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Home; Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


HOME TRAVEL, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What need I travel, since I may
Last Line: The little world in folio.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there
Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Variant Title(s): April In England
Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


HOMELAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My adirondack mountain home
Last Line: Where roots have struck down deep.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HOMEWARD BOUND, by E. B. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Between the hills, between the hills
Last Line: My own home-light shall shine for me.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips


I WOULD GO ADVENTURING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I would go -- would go adventuring
Last Line: But fate, the jester, gave me the hearth fire!
Subject(s): Home; Reality; Travel; Journeys; Trips


I'M GOING TO BOMBAY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hair is brown, my eyes are blue
Last Line: I'm going to bombay!
Subject(s): Bombay, India; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go
Last Line: Enny way, what would you do?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips


IMAGES: 3, by VALERY LARBAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between cordova and seville
Last Line: Through their cigar-stench, in the dining-car.
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Poverty; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


IMMOBILITY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a few years I roamed the country, pennsylvania, alabama, oregon
Last Line: To the white throats, the thrushes, the cardinals singing in the miniature forest on the hill?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


IMPLORA PACE, by CHARLES LOTIN HILDRETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood within the cypress gloom
Last Line: "peace I implore!"" and this alone."
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN A CAB, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain-and the lights of the city
Last Line: The desolate rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Taxis; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN A MUSEUM, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a curious place
Last Line: Of golden dreams!
Subject(s): Museums; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed
Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America


IN AN AEROPLANE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Merged in a moving picture earth goes by
Last Line: Close to the confines of eternity.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Tourists; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips


IN BOHEMIA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! My dear! I'm back again
Last Line: Ere it drowns me, kate, my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Poetry & Poets; Spring; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train
Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by.
Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips


IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets
Last Line: Aloud and here and now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips


IN PRAISE OF JOHNNY APPLESEED (BORN 1775, DIED 1847), by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the days of president washington
Last Line: There by the doors of old fort wayne.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Chapman, John (1774-1845); Patriotism; Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN SUSPENSE, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The composition of many particulars
Last Line: Into a difficult place, though we weren't particular.
Subject(s): Travel; Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York City; Journeys; Trips


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


IN TOWN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere there's a willow budding
Last Line: When's the next train out of town?
Subject(s): Country Life; Railroads; Towns; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


IN TRAVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now our white sail flutters down
Last Line: Ghostlike sinks last night's last star?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


IN TUSCANY: IN FLORENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: O tuscan days, my true, gold-hearted days
Last Line: I see thee now, o little tuscan town!
Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


INASMUCH, by DOROTHY SPROULE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You asked not whence we came, nor where we went
Last Line: Name us your god that we may worship him.
Subject(s): Religion; Travel; Theology; Journeys; Trips


INCIDENT AT BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bruges town is many a street
Last Line: Of english liberty?
Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips


INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver
Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us.
Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


INFINITY, by DORA E. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When on pretentious seas I would embark
Last Line: Except the vastness of the starlit sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field
Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day
Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven.
Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here
Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak
Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man.
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea
Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued.
Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies
Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTIONS: 8, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye powers unseen, to whom the bards of greece
Last Line: His reason, fancy, and his heart unite.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


INSULARUM OCELLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sark, fairer than aught in the world than the lit skies cover
Last Line: Sark.
Subject(s): Roundels; Travel; Journeys; Trips


INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away
Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah
Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips


ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To come back from the sweet south, to the north
Last Line: And the sweet name to my mouth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


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


JANUARY MORNING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have discovered that most of / the beauties of travel are due to
Last Line: That's the way it is with me somehow.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


JAUNT, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Verona, ohio / right 3 miles
Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Journeys; Trips


JEANNE PHYLLIS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fill us full of canned goods
Last Line: And made us holler so?
Subject(s): Boats; Children; Sea; Travel; Childhood; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road
Last Line: "and blur the dream!"
Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now, beneath the horizon westering slow
Last Line: And they betook them to their homely rest.
Subject(s): France; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Travel; War; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips


JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold
Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


JOURNEY FROM COPENHAGEN TO SKODSBORG, by ALFRED HENSCHKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the hedge the elder-blossoms lean
Last Line: The sun and moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


JOURNEYS, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not the speediest of coaches
Last Line: And they not know!
Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Sewing; Travel; Nightmares; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rode one evening with count maddalo
Last Line: All happened -- but the cold world shall not know.
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


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


KATHMANDU GUEST HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dogs bark themselves
Last Line: On whose faces the times keep changing.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Travel; Journeys; Trips


L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each in the self-same field we glean
Last Line: And lighter-hearted than voltaire.
Subject(s): Islands; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LAKE LOUISE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only divinity, enrapt, could mould
Last Line: The lonely lovliness of lake louise.
Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips


LALLA ROOKH: THE VEILED PROPHET OF KHORASSAN, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In that delightful province of the sun
Last Line: He and his zelica sleep side by side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): India; Prophecy & Prophets; Travel; Turkmen; Journeys; Trips; Turkomans


LAND O' DREAMS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's over the mountains, a million miles, it's
Last Line: Dreams come true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 4. BALLYTULLAGH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hamlet ballytullagh, small and old
Last Line: Loy, a half-spade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Despair; Mountains; Poverty; Solitude; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away
Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


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


LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea
Last Line: That we shall meet again?
Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


LES CAMARADES EN VOYAGE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The vessel is restlessly rushing over the waters
Last Line: And as they step upon the pier, lo the whiteness there!
Subject(s): Boats; Moon; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LET'S GO SOME PLACE, by MYRL RHINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, let's go to london
Last Line: We might go for a walk?
Subject(s): Travel; Walking; Journeys; Trips


LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air darkened toward morning
Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The


LETTERS TO YESENIN: 17, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind my back I have returned to life with much more surprise
Last Line: Pier. You might want her even in your ghostly form.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Poverty; Travel; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Journeys; Trips


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


LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friendly it stands, that inn upon the plain
Last Line: What inn it was, or by whom tenanted.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Soul; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DERELICT, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Driving back thro' the night on the lonely last ride
Last Line: Hushed and wistfully.
Subject(s): Roads; Solitude; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1), by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west
Last Line: The far lamp glows.
Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side
Last Line: In ghostly sheath.
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


LIFE'S VENTURE, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've followed the trail / for many a year
Last Line: Our feet getting caught.
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


LIGHT STREET WHARF, BALTIMORE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps you have tasted the salty tang
Last Line: And the sea-wind's salty tang.
Subject(s): Streets; Travel; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


LIMITED, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation
Last Line: "I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: ""omaha."
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


LINDY-GRAMS: 1. LINDY'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight as a bird upon its course
Last Line: Shall seldom see again.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Islands; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips


LINDY-GRAMS: 2. LINDY FLEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When lindy flew across the sea
Last Line: "and brought back home our colonel ""slim."
Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Travel; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips


LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF LA PEROUSE'S VOYAGES, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loved voyager! His pages had a zest
Last Line: His watery course -- a world-encircling line.
Subject(s): Galaup, Jean Francois (1741-1788); Travel; La Perouse, Comte De; Journeys; Trips


LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little eskimo, are you
Last Line: Like to live in our land, too?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


LIVING AT THE AIRPORT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because they lived near a major airport
Last Line: Wings?
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Travel; Wheels; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Journeys; Trips


LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the end you are tired of those places
Last Line: Beyond, a green continent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


LOCH KATRINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful loch katrine in all thy majesty so grand
Last Line: It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand.
Subject(s): Katrine, Loch (scotland); Travel; Journeys; Trips


LOCH LEVEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful loch leven, near by kinross
Last Line: And the old wall around it is mouldering away
Subject(s): Leven (lake), Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


LOCH NESS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful loch ness, / the truth to express
Last Line: Oh, beautiful loch ness! I must bid you good-bye.
Subject(s): Landscape; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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


LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There should be nothing here I don't remember
Last Line: And pretend for a moment, nothing lost is lost
Subject(s): Travel; Hotels; Marco Island, Florida; Journeys; Trips; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. K said in times of great crudity
Last Line: Still asking on down the road
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


LOST ORIGINAL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. K. Said in times of great crudity
Last Line: Still asking on down the road
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


LOVE'S VICISSITUDES, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As love and hope together
Last Line: The sweetest pipe of all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Travel; Optimism; Journeys; Trips


LOVE'S VOYAGE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As once I sat upon the shore
Last Line: Year after year renews the lover's lease of life.
Subject(s): Boats; Life; Love; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I travelled among unknown men
Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed.
Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men"";
Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips


LUDGATE HILL-DECEMBER NIGHT, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was the heart
Last Line: Over the craters, a banner from the dome.
Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


LUGGAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She carries her eyes from country to country
Last Line: How it is good we only have two hands
Subject(s): Absence; Strangers; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


LYDFORD JOURNEY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I oft have heard of lydford law
Last Line: Unless by some tin warrant.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Travel; Attorneys; Journeys; Trips


LYNTON VERSES: 4. LYNTON TO PORLOCK (EXMOOR), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From lynton when you drive to porlock
Last Line: Shoot honey-tongued quintessence of july!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The land is silent, and the moon
Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain.
Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, by NOEL COWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In tropical climes there are certain times of day
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


MAGIC, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love a still conservatory
Last Line: And the echoing heart deceives.
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wilderness; Woods; Journeys; Trips


MAGIC TOURS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the far-off whistle of a train
Last Line: Because a train has whistled on the track.
Subject(s): Railroads; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


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


MAYO, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a wide sea flowing and a deep river going
Last Line: Over your shining plains, mayo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Mayo (county), Ireland; Sea; Travel; Irish; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


MEDIAS RES, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The middle's where I wonder why as I wake
Last Line: Imagination, I wonder knowing why.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Indonesia; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips


MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 3. LIDO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to greet the full may-moon
Last Line: Than lido and its graves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Lido (island), Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


MEMORIES, by BERYL ELECTA MOSHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oriental courtesy, jades and cloisonne
Last Line: Keeper of a certain little art shop in nanking.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother?
Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


MESSAGE, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: City toilers in tumult and noise
Last Line: See, you have missed all the daisies!
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


MESSAGE TO MY FATHER, by MARION DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once, on a long-gone evening, you and I
Last Line: Punctually, despite your being -- lame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


METROPOLITAN, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world grows furry, grunts with sleep
Last Line: Strange threads to hold time fast.
Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead
Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


MIDWAY THE JOURNEY OF THIS LIFE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We reach a place without a border
Last Line: For the slow, unwinding spiral of our dance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The everlasting universe of things
Last Line: Silence and solitude were vacancy?
Subject(s): Alps; Chamonix, France; Mountains; Sleep; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this tile
Subject(s): Jews; Travel; Judaism; Journeys; Trips


MOSS WAS A LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: He put the halter round her neck - so moss caught his mare
Subject(s): Animals;fields;horseback Riding;travel; Pastures;meadows;leas;journeys;trips


MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips


MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This plane has landed thanks to god and his mercy
Last Line: Thanks to the small toad that lives in cool mud at the base of the zinnias.
Subject(s): Life; Luck; Mercy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


MY BOOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little gate my book can be
Last Line: Afar in foreign fields I roam.
Subject(s): Books; February; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips


MY MOTHER, 1930, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't worry, mom,' she wrote from tunis to fargo
Last Line: Her secret refuge of remembrance.
Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


MY TRIP; FOR ROBERT CREELEY, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am looking at a smallpox vaccination scar
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


MY WESTERN LAND, by EMMET PENDLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My western land with all the thrill
Last Line: My western land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


NAENIAE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, soft be thy sleep in the land of the west
Last Line: But more loved, ...O, how few, love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips


NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's christmas eve in texas
Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae."
Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rusted up industrial natures you spy
Subject(s): Railroads; New Jersey; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight
Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


NEW YORK AT NOON, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The city burrows toward the shade
Last Line: On the silver-bristled swine.
Subject(s): Geography; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


NEW YORK IN SUMMER: INSOMNIA, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath trees whose leaves
Last Line: I must try to sleep.
Subject(s): Cities; Insomnia; Nicaragua; Travel; Urban Life; Sleeplessness; Journeys; Trips


NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound
Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow.
Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips


NIAGARA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers
Last Line: The days that carry us could be these.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as the train bears west
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT JOURNEY, by RICHARD LEON SPAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As we rode the lean white highway through the dark
Last Line: Serving as dark a purpose of their own.
Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past
Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT VOYAGE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no climate for stars. But upon earth
Last Line: On a necessitous planet? Can the stars answer?
Subject(s): Night; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the high plains
Last Line: At the end
Subject(s): Prairies; Tibet; Travel; Plains; Journeys; Trips


NO ONE GOES TO PARIS IN AUGUST, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A montparnasse august / with view of the cimetiere. A yard of bones
Subject(s): Montparnasse, Paris; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


NO ROOM, by ELLIS ARTHUR REPASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No room that night for them
Last Line: And crown messiah king!
Alternate Author Name(s): Repass, E. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips


NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day
Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


NOTICE TO TOURISTS, by LEONARDO [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: But most avoid italia's coast
Last Line: For british virtues left behind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leonardo
Subject(s): Earth;tourists;travel; World;journeys;trips


O LOVE, O LOVE, HOW LONG?, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree that yearns with drooping crest
Last Line: O love, o love, how long?
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


O TRAVELER, by HERMAN FORD MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O traveler, what trenchant wonder
Last Line: And crowned you with a curse?
Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OAK AND OLIVE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I was born a londoner
Last Line: One of the englishmen!
Subject(s): Greece; Travel; Greeks; Journeys; Trips


OBAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Beautiful oban with your lovely bay
Last Line: And feast my eyes on your beautiful scenery, enchanting and gay.
Subject(s): Cities; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


OBSERVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch how other things travel
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ODE TO RAE WILSON, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wanderer, wilson, from my native land
Last Line: Without the milk of human kindness?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell to leyden's lonely bound
Last Line: There public zeal shall all reproof disclaim.
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OF ENGLAND, AND OF ITS MARVELS, by FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now to great britain we must make our way
Last Line: Which might be fair to tell but which I hide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bonifazio Degli Uberti
Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Salisbury, England; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


OFF AND RUNNING, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OIL OF DADA: FIRST LOOK, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Call over the men from zurich. Call a raft
Last Line: But da, da, da! The canvas dribbles light!
Subject(s): Bells; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OLD VERMONT ROADS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old-time roads, they used to run
Last Line: Them roads the fathers used to travel.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ON A CAVE, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath
Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips


ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple
Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky!
Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tagus farewell! That westward with thy streams
Last Line: Of mighty love the wings for this me give.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): In Spain;of His Returne From Spaine;epigram: 22
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON INHABITING AN ORANGE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All our roads go nowhere.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON LEAVING MRS. BROWN'S LODGINGS, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So goodbye, mrs. Brown
Last Line: But all's one for that, since I must and will away.
Subject(s): Farewell; Moving & Movers; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


ON LYNN TERRACE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day to watch the blue wave curl and break
Last Line: And hollow caves of night.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I am a rhymer
Last Line: In the body-and-soul-stinking town of cologne.
Variant Title(s): An Expectoration
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Hate; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON THE EMINENT DR. EDWARD BROWNE'S TRAVELS, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus from a foreign clime rich merchants come
Last Line: In subterranean cosmography.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The top of the world and an empty
Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise!
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


ON THE ROADS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The road winds onward long and white
Last Line: And the best of earth is here!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON THE SETTING FORTH OF ... PRICESS ELIZABETH & THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can we wish you that you have not won
Last Line: And safe returning crown your journey done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh (b. 1921); Travel; British Empire; England - Empire; Mountbatten, Philip; Journeys; Trips


ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display
Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day.
Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


ON THE TAOS ROAD, by MAY REES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two freighters, bronzed and lank, bend lightly down
Last Line: Night's curtain half reveals a single star.
Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Travel; Prairie Schooners; Journeys; Trips


ON THE WAY TO HANGCHOW: ANCHORED ON THE RIVER AT NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little sleeping and much grieving, - the traveller
Last Line: And still we have not reached hang-chow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON THE YANGSTE KIANG, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, so the ballad is sung
Last Line: On the beautiful banks of the yangste kiang.
Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ONE STEP AT A TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mine of comfort for you and me
Last Line: A single step at a time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faith; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prayer; Roads; Travel; Belief; Creed; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


OTRANTO, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sunset from the top of the stair watching
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OUR ITALIAN JOURNEY, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of our first stay in italy
Last Line: Of which, though past, our speech is ever rife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


OUR NATIVE LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The halo round the seraph's head
Last Line: With sides of snow, and throat of fires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Earth; Home; Memory; Nations; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


OUR TRAVELLER, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If thou would'st stand on etna's burning brow
Last Line: Then, why the dickens don't you go and do it?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley
Subject(s): Death; Soul; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


OURS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where of old was heard
Last Line: "our watterson!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Honor; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


OUT BACK, by P. QUINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We dumped our swags by the river-side when the sun was getting low
Last Line: Twas the first gay time he had crossed that creek, but I had been there before.
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Vanity; Journeys; Trips


OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains


OUTSIDE THE CROWD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To sit on history in an easy chair
Last Line: That chapter for the historic word on wrecks.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OUTWARD 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     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus should have been our travels
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


OVER THE RANGES, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Says allan machardy, 'beyond the high ranges there's land for the men
Last Line: "is, ""may god help him then!"
Subject(s): Deception; Mountain Climbing; Travel; Journeys; Trips


OVER THE WATER WI' CHAIRLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er!
Last Line: Or we lippen again to chairlie!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Boats; Travel; Water; Journeys; Trips


PACIFIC COAST, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half across the world to westward there's
Last Line: Half across the world from england many and many a year ago.
Subject(s): Past; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PADDING IT, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hasing it out like niggers on a two and a / tanner sub
Last Line: The journey to ballachulish, for this is the song of it.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Serfs; Journeys; Trips


PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams
Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all.
Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


PARAGUAY, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the early hours of the lovebirds
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


PARIS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I recall the meal I ate was liver
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Paris, France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PARIS SOUS LA PLUIE (AN EARLY BONNARD), by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each has his france; and mine's three feet by two
Last Line: From their talk, in that café, in its smoke-loud air.
Subject(s): Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Cities; Paris, France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


PAROO RIVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a week from christmas-time
Last Line: "this is the paroo river!"
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PASSENGER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This one on the platform
Last Line: She boards with an assault motion.
Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PASSENGERS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the gate, I sit in a row of blue seats
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


PASSING OF THE PIONEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Open out the window, let him face the west
Last Line: Far he is faring on a new frontier.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky
Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips


PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road
Last Line: Across the fields.
Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


PEEING ALL OVER THE PENINSULA, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


PEG OF LIMAVADDY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding from coleraine
Last Line: Peg of limavaddy!
Subject(s): Limavaddy, Ireland; Travel; Youth; Journeys; Trips


PHANTASY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a temple of the toes
Last Line: The song of sevilla's barber.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


PHILADELPHIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you're off to philadelphia in the morning
Last Line: They are all in pennsylvania this morning!
Subject(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it you ask me, darling?
Last Line: And the fire had died away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


PICTURES OF THE RHINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of romance dies not to those
Last Line: And bridal vines drink in his juices on each side.
Subject(s): Nature; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE HARTZ JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In black coats and silken stockings
Last Line: When loudly the trumpet's note swell'd.
Subject(s): Hartz Forest, Germany; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE RETURN HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On my life, a life of darkness
Last Line: Keeping up his wretched dinning
Subject(s): Hearts; Homecoming; Life; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field
Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


PLAYING JACKS IN BHAKTAPUR, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a cruciform cloth squared in black and white
Last Line: She names.
Subject(s): Games; Travel; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips


POCKET POEM, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


POND STREET, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees are high over pond street
Last Line: A leisurely minute ...
Subject(s): Peace; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PORT BOU, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child holds a pet
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Guns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


POSSESSION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth sat down on a wayside
Last Line: The world and its giving belonged to him.
Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Journeys; Trips


PRAIRIE NIGHT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to go on a straight, white road
Last Line: At my scarf, as I go by.
Subject(s): Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND, by ALDFRITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found in innisfail the fair
Last Line: From the irish. Tr. James clarence mangan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ealdfrith; Eahfrith
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


QUO ABEO?, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flood flows down, the sails are spreading
Last Line: Alone, alone!
Subject(s): Faith; God; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Travel; Belief; Creed; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


RAMATUELLE, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track
Last Line: This was ramatuelle.
Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


REMEMBERING, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft grey ghosts crawl up my sleeve
Last Line: And they lay my soul in strips
Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips


REQUIESCAT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought to build a deathless monument
Last Line: Lie calm among my ruined thoughts and deeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


REST AT THE MERCY HOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because nature doesn't specialize
Last Line: A momentary rest.
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


RETURN TO NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far and free o'er the lifting sea, the lapsing wastes and
Last Line: Love that sings, on the sea-wind's wings runs on to greet thee his very own.
Subject(s): Homecoming; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


REVERIE, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark road journeys to the darkening sky
Last Line: All, all at last must take their sorrow home.
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE?, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage
Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians


RIGHT!, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer sun was high and strong
Last Line: "leading to this!"
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


RIOUPEROUX, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: High and solemn mountains guard riouperoux
Last Line: And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy.
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


RIVERS INTO SEAS, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds
Last Line: Adrift in the sea’s restless shouldering
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Travel; Seas; Rivers; Journeys; Trips


ROADS WE TRAVEL BUT ONCE, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road runs down through wonder town
Last Line: Than roads we travel but once?
Subject(s): Life; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ROADWAYS, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just as the little country road divides
Last Line: By bringing peace to crown our happiness!
Subject(s): Old Age; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ROAMING, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I steady my staff at the crossroads, it falls with
Last Line: For the road runs the wide world over, and the life of the road is the best.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What wildly-beauteous form
Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WHITHER NOW?, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither now? My stupid foot
Last Line: Have myself been wandering greatly.
Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; War; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness
Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly
Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips


RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle
Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips


RUSH HOUR, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Odd, the baby's scabbed face peeking over
Last Line: Its motion that would begin like a blessing.
Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SAINT CLOUD, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft spread the southern summer night
Last Line: Our evenings at saint cloud.
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled
Last Line: Sit in the beautiful houses, mobbed by cars
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SALUTATION, by RUTH STERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you choose the journey, friend?
Last Line: At the inn in company.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes
Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach
Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SAN FRANCISCO BAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandest bay! Upon whose bosom navies of all the world
Last Line: Blesséd gate, where millions find the golden boon of liberty!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; San Francisco Bay, California; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SANTE FE TRAIL, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go separately
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SAPPHICS: AT THE MOHAWK CASTLE, CANADA, by THOMAS MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ease is the prayer of him, who in a whaleboat / crossing lake champlain
Last Line: Dabbling in sapphic.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SATAN'S HIGHWAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With satan joyously leading the way
Last Line: They follow the road to his old home town.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Roads; Towns; Travel; Travel Directions; Walking; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


SATIRE: 1.5. JOURNEY TO BRUNDISIUM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a long journey lay before us
Last Line: Stop short the muse and traveller.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SATIRES: 2. OF TRAVELLERS: FROM PARIS, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ben jonson, travel is a second birth
Last Line: So end this satire, and bid thee good night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SATURDAY NIGHT, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the ranch on a saturday night
Last Line: If every night I was ridin' your way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SCAMPS OF ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We're off across the hills today with merriment agog
Last Line: With old glories on our stories, and our march -- tramp! Tramp!
Subject(s): Mandeville, Sir John; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SEA-FEVER, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
Last Line: And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SEEING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If it was water, poseidon presided
Subject(s): Coryate, Thomas (1577-1617); Travel; Journeys; Trips


SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old
Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name.
Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips


SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Directed by the eyes of others
Last Line: Theirs, no voyage is, no tunnel, door, nor way
Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting


SHEILING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go where the sheep go
Last Line: There shall we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Sheep; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro
Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea.
Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


SIESTA IN XBALBA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One could pass valuable months
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eve's tinted shadows slowly fill the fane
Last Line: Ever should pass those holy walls beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Graves; Saint Peter's Church, Rome; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Journeys; Trips


SLEWED!, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was threatening to rain as the red sun sank down
Last Line: Like paddy, my mate, in the dark get astray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips


SO LONG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At least at night, a streetlight
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SOMETIMES, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I long for a lazy isle
Last Line: Back to the whirl again!
Subject(s): Rest; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


SOMEWHERE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you tell me the way to somewhere?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Imagination; Travel; Fancy; Journeys; Trips


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree
Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF THE WANDERING KNIGHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ornaments are sword and spear
Last Line: May bid these knightly lips kiss thee
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Journeys;trips


SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Water, parted from the sea
Last Line: Till it reach its native home.
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 10. BEFORE A JOURNEY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomorrow I shall set forth upon a journey
Last Line: Til I assay them 'round a home-lit fire.
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SONGS OF TRAVEL: 40. TROPIC RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled
Last Line: And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way
Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest!
Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


SONNET: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor judge me light, tho' light at times I seem
Last Line: Whom easy taste, the golden pilot, steered.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Light; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain
Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before.
Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


SONNETS: 1. TO THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy god permits thee, but with dreadful hand
Last Line: From us yet hidden and our blinded race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): God; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


SPARTA, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of sparta...Of the withered hill
Last Line: On athens of the everlasting light.
Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Sparta, Greece; Towns; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, it matters not to know
Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night.
Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips


STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car
Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips


STANZAS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often rebuked, yet always back returning
Last Line: Can centre both the worlds of heaven and hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Time; Travel; Books; Journeys; Trips; Reading


STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming
Last Line: I think of thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


STAR, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of gaspard that certainly was not / his real name
Last Line: Knows full well that one must not follow it
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I go again
Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America


STEREOSCOPE, by PAUL GERALDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't want to see them. Take the negatives
Last Line: Don't make it an historian.
Subject(s): Memory; Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips


STOPPING THE NIGHT AT JUNG-YANG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grew up at jung-yang
Last Line: Passionless, -- flow in their old course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


SUNDERED PATHS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two travellers, worn with sun and rain
Last Line: And drown their voices each from each.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


SUNSET CABOOSE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Freight train, freight train / going so fast'
Last Line: To what is brought out of light
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


SUNSET OVER HANDMADE CHURCH, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like, / people get emotionally tied to
Last Line: Ghosts.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love Affairs; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SWEET STAY-AT-HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet stay-at-home, sweet, well content
Last Line: Not for the knowledge in thy mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Contentment; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SWITZERLAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the steamy, stuffy midlands, 'neath an english summer sky
Last Line: And the true delight of living, as you taste it only there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick
Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out
Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips


TEA THE PALAZ OF HOON, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not less because in purple I descended
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TERMINALS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A railroad station at the city's heart
Last Line: Romance to every wharf at which they swing.
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ADAMS RIVER BUSH, by M. J. O'REILLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We left good old coolgardie
Last Line: With the adams river rush.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mick, Mulga
Subject(s): Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ADIRONDACS; A JOURNAL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We crossed champlain to keeseville with our friends
Last Line: As if one riddle of the sphinx were guessed.
Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE AERIAL CITY, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But proffers no pinions to fly.
Subject(s): Cities; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE ALL RIGHT UN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He came from further out
Last Line: Was 'a all right un'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little red road climbs the hill
Last Line: "who were a hundred years away."
Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips


THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To lake aghmoogenegamook
Last Line: Moosehicmagunticook.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America


THE ANCIENT TOWN OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient town of leith, most wonderful to be seen
Last Line: Because they have always been very kind to me.
Subject(s): Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England, mother born of seamen, daughter fostered of the sea
Last Line: Sea.
Subject(s): England; God; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; English; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE AVIATOR, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leaving lesser men to feet of clay
Last Line: Back to its home—the sun.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Desire; Hearts; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A street there is in paris famous
Last Line: -- here comes the smoking bouillabaisse!
Subject(s): Friendship; Paris, France; Restaurants; Travel; Cafes; Diners; Journeys; Trips


THE BALLADE OF ALL OUT-DOORS, by RALPH P. PERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the sky is getting mellow, and the
Last Line: For its all out-doors a-callin' to its own.
Subject(s): Pleasure; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon
Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me.
Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE BARBER ABROAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said crimp the hair-dresser, when he
Last Line: His hankering for greece!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Barbers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE BARMAID AND THE ALEXANDRITE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Route 66, a rut of scenery and cigarettes
Last Line: From telluride, to taos, to galisteo.
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Stones; Travel; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips


THE BASS ROCK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas summer's depth; a more enlivening sun
Last Line: Oft make the hush of midnight more profound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Guests; Scotland; Stones; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Visiting; Granite; Rocks; Journeys; Trips


THE BEAUTIES AROUND US, by JESSE SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beautiful scenes around us
Last Line: Old utah, is just good enough for me.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful and ancient city of perth
Last Line: You cannot be surpassed at the present day.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Guests; Maps; Scotland; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE OF PENICUIK, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The village of penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills
Last Line: And drink the pure water from their crystal rills.
Subject(s): Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are roads to take when you think of your country
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Travel; Roads; Journeys; Trips; Paths; Trails


THE BOWERS OF PARADISE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, traveller, who hast wandered far
Last Line: There are the bowers of paradise!
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE BRACELET, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days I bargained over this brass round
Last Line: "not at least the way we would mind, for sure."
Subject(s): Indonesia; Jewelry & Jewelers; Tourists; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips


THE CAMPUS IN VACATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road winds grey, deserted
Last Line: Waiting for many feet.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Vacation; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE CARAVAN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From underneath the carob shade
Last Line: One bourn for every caravan!
Subject(s): Caravans; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips


THE CASTLE OF MAINS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ancient castle of the mains
Last Line: To hear the birds singing and the humming of the bee.
Subject(s): Castles; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CHARACTER OF HOLLAND, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land
Last Line: Vainly in hell let pluto domineer.
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE CHOICE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was weary
Last Line: Hath such draught to sell?'
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade
Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat.
Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth
Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day.
Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


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


THE COCKNEY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in my foreign travel
Last Line: That was mentioned in the bill!
Subject(s): Speech; Travel; Oratory; Orators; Journeys; Trips


THE COHERENCES, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Se;f; Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Imagination; Journeys; Trips; Fancy


THE COMING OF LIGHT, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even this late it happens
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying
Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven
Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The


THE CONSPIRACY, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You send me your poems
Last Line: If you will send me one of you
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old man breaking stones
Last Line: And a stone is on her face.
Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


THE CUMMERBUND, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sate upon her dobie
Last Line: And swollow you outright.
Subject(s): Nonsense; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE CURSE OF THE WANDERING FOOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All hope of rest withdrawn me!
Last Line: The curse of the wandering foot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Curses; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm
Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood
Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DAMASCUS ROAD, by EMMA LEE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How far on the road to damascus
Last Line: You have traveled this glorious day.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to
Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE DARK WAGGON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The water-wraith shrieked over clyde
Last Line: Sir william wallace stept!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Travel; Wagons; Wheels; Journeys; Trips


THE DEAD EAGLE; WRITTEN AT ORAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fallen as he is, this king of birds still seems
Last Line: Of glassy runnels bubbling over rocks.
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Oran, Algeria; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE DEATH OF PETER CLARK, by HUBERT H. PARRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun was blazing fiercely on the cracked and dusty plain
Last Line: And horses groan and labour, as the teamster rides beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barwon
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE DELINQUENT TRAVELLERS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some are home-sick - some two or three
Last Line: Are your delinquent travellers!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE DEN O' FOWLIS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful den o' fowlis, most charming to be seen
Last Line: And such a blessing to the people shouldn't be forgot.
Subject(s): Guests; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE DEPARTURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this roadstead I have ridden
Last Line: Sighed plaintively.
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


THE DISTRESSED TRAVELLERS; OR, LABOUR IN VAIN, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of a journey to clifton
Last Line: For the sense and the sound, they say, should be the same.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee
Last Line: "see first of all thy native land."
Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


THE ELD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Blessed, blessed be the eld
Last Line: The daughter of the eld.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE EMBARKATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood
Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last."
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers
Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee!
Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortu, fortu, my beloved one
Last Line: In black from the skies!
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE EXCURSION: OR: O COLUMBUS!, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning is the morning when mrs. Murphy's treasure chest opens
Last Line: And the seas fill up with the sharks of auld lang syne
Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips


THE FAR FIELD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of journeys repeatedly
Subject(s): Travel; Rivers; Death; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The


THE FAR-FARERS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The broad sun / the bright day
Last Line: Return no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand
Last Line: I, fa-hien.'
Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips


THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jolly english yellowboy
Last Line: With the dollars of peru!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored
Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


THE FLEETING VISITANT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These parting words we have to say
Last Line: Seems on its farewell tour
Subject(s): Farewell;guests;travel; Parting;visiting;journeys;trips


THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er
Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE FOURTH WISE MAN, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Likes & Dislikes; Journeys; Trips


THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air
Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride
Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon!
Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE GOAL, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We do not travel on beyond the place
Last Line: With wings all spread to fly at one lone call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Fate; Travel; Destiny; Journeys; Trips


THE GOD OF NOON, by IVAN ALEKSEYEVITCH (ALEXEYVICH) BUNIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black goats I herded with my sister; they
Last Line: From him the cammomile's kind use I learned.
Subject(s): Kindness; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift
Last Line: Over the secret sea.
Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips


THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: TARAFA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tent lines these of khaula in stone-stricken thahmadi
Last Line: Neither for pay nor raiment, nor madest thou tryst with him.
Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Travel; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips


THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh that thy creed were sound
Last Line: When comes a foe, my wounds with oil and wine to tend.
Subject(s): Catholics; Good Samaritan; Travel; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Journeys; Trips


THE GORING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arena dust rusted by four bulls' blood to a dull redness
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE GREAT OPEN SPACES, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spin me a yarn of the bounding sea
Last Line: And so does his bank account.
Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE GREAT SAINT BERNARD, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night was again descending, when my mule
Last Line: Bread to the hungry, to the weary rest.
Subject(s): Saint Bernard (mountain), Switzerland; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE HAPPY TRAVELLER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is the monarch of the road?
Last Line: I travel to the far away!
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE HILLS OF OLD VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The 'native' hills of old vermont
Last Line: Amidst the hills of old vermont.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Mountain Life - Vermont; Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips


THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown
Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun!
Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE HOME-BOUND SHIP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far out on the stormy ocean
Last Line: Bringing my loved ones home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards
Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips


THE HOUSE WITH THE PICTURE HUNG OVER THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "wherever we travel, by road or by rail"
Last Line: The house with the picture hung over the door
Subject(s): Home;travel; Journeys;trips


THE HUNTER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunter crouches in his blind
Subject(s): Hunting; Travel; Hunters; Journeys; Trips


THE HUNTER, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the blue, the purple seas
Last Line: And thou'rt a dream o yucatan!
Subject(s): Home; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE IMPULSE OF SINGING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That journey he made
Last Line: How bitterly beautiful, before the madwomen ripped him?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE INDIAN MAID. DEMARARIE, OCT. 27, 1781, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The indian maid who lightly trips, / the dryad of the guava grove
Last Line: Prove her the goddess of the place!
Subject(s): Travel; West Indies; Journeys; Trips; Caribbean Islands


THE INDIAN SIGN, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I'm touring
Last Line: "detour!"
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT, SELECTION, by RICHARD POLWHELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each object by a few short years how changed!
Last Line: Wear, like the joys they speak of, the pale cold damp of years!
Subject(s): Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass
Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse
Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee.
Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE JOURNEY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went over fossil hill
Last Line: Flowers that I bless with living eyes.
Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Wisdom; Journeys; Trips


THE JOURNEY, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Travel; Spiders; Journeys; Trips


THE JOURNEY INTO FRANCE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came from england into france
Last Line: Who (men thought) did the same
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys;trips


THE JOURNEY ON, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lips shall kiss thy brows!
Last Line: As we together take the long, long journey on!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone
Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back.
Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips


THE KEY, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my key to happiness
Last Line: My sugar and my cream.
Subject(s): Algeria; Hotels; Keys; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips


THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise
Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call.
Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE LAND OF CONTENT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I set out for the land of content
Last Line: I came to the land of content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Anxiety; Fame; God; Soul; Travel; Reputation; Journeys; Trips


THE LAST MAN: A CROCODILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the lilied nile I saw
Last Line: Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat.
Subject(s): Crocodiles; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LAST SONG, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from a long journey and a sore
Last Line: (only within your arms is my content.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Comfort; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LAUNCH OF THE LIVADIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold, and fair marbles, and again more gold
Last Line: 09/30/80
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life
Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little dog-woggy
Last Line: The world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling
Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips


THE LITTLE TOBOGGAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Interpretation is an overworked word
Last Line: For them it is heaven to climb and to ride.
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Sports Utility Vehicles; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG JOURNEY, by SUSAN R. MARSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ghostly caravan of women bowed
Last Line: She weirdly plods her way fore'er detached.
Subject(s): Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood
Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home!
Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: THE GOLD RUSH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now it's gold and gold!
Last Line: And we strike it rich.
Subject(s): Canyons; Prairies; Roads; Travel; Plains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG TRAIL: THE MOUNTAIN WALL, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The long trail calls!
Last Line: The snows drift deep thro' the closing night.
Subject(s): Mountains; Roads; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE LONG WAY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two miles of ridin' from the school, without a bit of trouble
Last Line: That sunset fadin' yellow through the notches of the hills?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 2, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I thought I could get away
Last Line: And a mile is longer than a million miles
Subject(s): Relationships; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the earth burns! Each pebble under foot
Last Line: Oh, this is rest! Oh, this is paradise!
Subject(s): Nature; Oases; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MAHRATTA GHATS, by ALUN LEWIS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The valleys crack and burn, the exhausted plains
Subject(s): India; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; World War Ii; Journeys; Trips; Second World War


THE MASK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In open palm the old man cradles his
Last Line: I leave with her naked countenance.
Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


THE MEETING, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old coach-road through a common of furze
Last Line: And either went their way.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Journeys; Trips


THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road
Last Line: That's suffering to croak.
Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news
Last Line: And again, on his way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MOUNT, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I have tempered haste
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Time; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE MURDERED TRAVELLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When spring, to woods and wastes around
Last Line: Far down that narrow glen.
Subject(s): Travel; Murder; Journeys; Trips


THE MUSMEE, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The musmee has brown-velvet eyes
Last Line: O medeto gozarimas!
Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips


THE MYSTIC, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a quest that calls me
Last Line: Where just beyond lies god.
Subject(s): God; Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE NAME WRIT IN WATER (PLAZA DI SPAGNA, ROME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yonder's the window my poet would sit in
Last Line: Listen! My waters will whisper his name.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE NETHERLANDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water and windmills, greenness, islets green
Last Line: And water seen --
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE NEWPORT RAILWAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to the newport railway
Last Line: On the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE NIGHTINGALE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone warbler! Thy love-melting heart supplies
Last Line: So kind and watchful is celestial love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR, by DONALD REVELL    Poem 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old
Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE OLD MANSION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old friend! Why, you seem bent on parish duty
Last Line: The same old bounty and old welcome there.
Subject(s): Facades; Hospitality; Strangers; Travel; Appearances; Journeys; Trips


THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where they once dug for money
Last Line: By the old marlborough road.
Subject(s): Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice you have been around the world
Last Line: Woman, that is
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips


THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field
Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge!
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips


THE PACKET RAT, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I leave this western ocean, to the
Last Line: It's the bloomin' western ocean what 'll get me when I'm dead!
Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PASSAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF ST. GOTHARD. TO MY CHILDREN, by GEORGIANA (SPENCER) CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye plains, where threefold harvests press the ground
Last Line: And more -- o transport! -- reach its home and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Devonshire, Duchess Of
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE PASSING OF SPAIN FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord communed with his heart in heaven
Last Line: The passing away of spain.
Subject(s): Cities; Messages & Messengers; Spain; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE PATH TO PANAMA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring your dredges, uncle sam
Last Line: Along the path to panama.
Subject(s): Panama. American Invasion, 1989; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PATRIOT ENGINEER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs! May I shake your hands?
Last Line: The glory freedom radiates!
Subject(s): Alps; Austria; Mountains; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE PERMANENT BRAND, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a maverick runnin' free
Last Line: The first class lot from the mavericks!
Subject(s): Love; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies
Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE PILGRIM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle pilgrim, tell me why
Last Line: God speed thee, pilgrim, on thy way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Travel; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Journeys; Trips


THE PILGRIM MAIDEN, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, I have come a weary way
Last Line: Dedicated to love of god and liberty.
Subject(s): Footprints; Immigrants; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Journeys; Trips


THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, he never can tell
Last Line: The world about.
Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE PIPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well
Last Line: You can never pipe my fancy from my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 106, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The layered bloom of hills and streams
Last Line: What more could I want in that land of dreams
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born thirty years ago
Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 176, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall the places I've been
Last Line: I would hug my knees in a frigid wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 23, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seasonal round never stops
Last Line: Depart and don't return
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 29, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pole your three winged galleons
Last Line: I have nothing to convey
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 43, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A white crane carries a bitter flower
Last Line: His wife and children don't know him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cranes (birds); Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE POOR MAN'S AUTOMOBILE, by EDWIN L. SABIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the day's stint is finished, and master and man
Last Line: But I doubt if a nabob is gayer than we.
Subject(s): Automobiles; Cities; Driving & Drivers; Travel; Wheels; Cars; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE PORT, by JAMES MACFARLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, upon a path of fairy flow'rs
Last Line: And canopied with cloud!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PRAIRIE SPEAKING, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the prairie
Last Line: I am the prairie
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Tourists; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure
Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights.
Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips


THE PROGRESS OF ERROR, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, muse, (if such a theme, so dark, so long)
Last Line: Bled, groaned and agonized, and died, in vain.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief
Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want
Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE QUEST OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What were our forefathers trying
Last Line: Is what our forefathers were trying to find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Home; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay!
Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green.
Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE RAND MCNALLY ATLAS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Belly down on the rug
Last Line: Durango, chinook, ramona, monongahela.
Subject(s): Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE READERSHIP, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I suppose must have been orbiting all the time
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE REAL TRAVELERS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was supposed to snow, but it rained
Last Line: The real travelers etting out for mars
Subject(s): Space & Space Travel; Neighbors; Journeys; Trips


THE REPEATED JOURNEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again and again I make the intolerable journey
Last Line: We were for a season
Subject(s): Seasons; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years
Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven.
Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


THE RIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We rose in the clear, cool dawning, and greeted the eastern star
Last Line: And ride to the pearl of cities from the huts of kerf hawar.
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Middle East; Travel; Near East; Levant; Journeys; Trips


THE RIDER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He rode out over the moorland
Last Line: And his ears were stopped with clay.
Subject(s): Travel; Wales; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery
Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ROAD, by GEORGE ROBERT MCKEITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What if I cannot see the road
Last Line: And reach the final goal!
Subject(s): Experience; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE, by ELEANOR DOWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road I traveled yesterday
Last Line: At the end of the road to everywhere!
Subject(s): Future; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ROAMER: BOOK 1, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harken, o outcast race, to man outcast, / into the desert driven in his youth
Last Line: Crying, and on its forehead was a star.
Subject(s): Strength; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: If my feet were on the rocky road
Last Line: On the rocky road to dublin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Greetings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SAILING LIST, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was reading my paper, dully enough, when just as it chanced, I found
Last Line: Never, never, never get to go!
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief
Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD WITH HIS SON, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O what harper could worthily harp it
Last Line: Of seven or eight.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SEA-HOUNDS, by MARGUERITE CHAPMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Relentless, the sea - hounds follow on
Last Line: In spain or portugal or bright bombay.
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure
Last Line: . . . . . . .
Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire
Last Line: "ope not the gate."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips


THE SECRETARY; WRITTEN AT THE HAGUE, 1696, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix
Last Line: So blest as the englishen heer secretar' is.
Subject(s): Hague, Netherlands; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SEEKERS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode
Last Line: But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Roads; Solitude; Travel; Urban Life; World; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims
Last Line: Seems a lost star.
Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A town lies in the valley
Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise.
Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 75, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But destiny swoop'd darkling on their course
Last Line: Thus only might they for such sin atone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): France; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime
Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips


THE SNAIL'S PACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the snake to the snail: 'how absurdly you crawl!'
Last Line: "can any one beat me in traversing space?"
Subject(s): Snails; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight from the cool green arms
Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam.
Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips


THE SONGS OF MAXIMUS: SONG 2, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All / wrong
Subject(s): Travel; City & Town Life; Journeys; Trips


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands
Last Line: (exeunt.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips


THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9. VISION OF THE WORLD, by T. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dream'd I walked, in raptures high
Last Line: As I in vision view'd!
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A perfect rainbow! A wide
Last Line: Violently southward
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE STORY OF SIGURD THE VOLSUNG: SIGURD'S RIDE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So up and up they journeyed, and ever as they went
Last Line: And wends his ways through the twilight the foe of the gods to meet.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE STRANGE HOURS TRAVELERS KEEP, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The markets never rest
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules
Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips


THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know
Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


THE SWEATER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will lose you. It is written
Last Line: His death into the sweater.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Loss; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TELEPHONE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My happiness depends on an electric appliance
Last Line: For the human voice and the good news of friends
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Telephones; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE THREE MUSICIANS, by AUBREY BEARDSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the path that skirts the wood
Last Line: Red as his guide-book grows, moves on, and offers up a prayer for france.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TICKET AGENT, by EDMUND LEAMY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like any merchant in a store
Last Line: He deals in dreams, and calls it -- work!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TINAJERA NOTEBOOK, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through my torso, the smooth
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TOURISTS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arriving was their passion
Last Line: The state of simple being
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown
Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held.
Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAIN-MISSER; AT UNION STATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ll where in the world my eyes has bin
Last Line: Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELED MAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I wish the railroads all were torn out
Last Line: Who has not strayed beyond his meadows fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELER, by ANDRE GERMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn
Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELER, by ANNE MCCLURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A loosened leaf blown by the casual wind
Last Line: Took up the savage journey home again.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELING MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can
Last Line: Will welcome the traveling man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Hearts; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years I slept beneath a thorn
Last Line: I am the world's ashes, and the kindling fire.
Subject(s): Desire; Life; Memory; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER, by MARJORIE WEIRICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I had thought a journey I would take
Last Line: To book-fed dreams?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown
Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER HEART, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would be one with the dark, dark earth
Last Line: When the sheaves were ripe, and the apples red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er hampshire's snow-heaped hills the sun
Last Line: Remorse is punishment enough!
Subject(s): Earth; Homecoming; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


THE TRAVELLER'S RETURN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet to the morning traveller
Last Line: That welcomes his return.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Reunions; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE TRIP FROM CALIFORNIA, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shoe-fixery and on the train
Subject(s): Travel; Pleasure; Journeys; Trips


THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea
Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE TRYST AT BETHLEHEM, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The daily tasks are set aside
Last Line: "my tryst at bethlehem."
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Travel; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips


THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where this narrow lane slips by
Last Line: At the turn of the road.'
Subject(s): Footprints; Roads; Solitude; Time; Travel; Paths; Trails; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the jersey city shed
Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE TWO TRAVELLERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas evening, and before my eyes
Last Line: Had passed, and he was lost to sight.
Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting


THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves
Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more.
Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THE VERMONT THRASHERS ARE COMING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yep; there they come there down the road
Last Line: "say; jabe, you've got to 'feed 'er in.'"
Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Wheels; Journeys; Trips


THE VERMONTER DEPARTING, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He drove alone beside his sugar bush
Last Line: All that last hour before the evening train.
Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips


THE VILLAGE OF TAYPORT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All ye pleasure-seekers, where'er ye be
Last Line: Along the bonnie banks o' the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Tourists; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips


THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky
Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore.
Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


THE VISITOR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly the other side of this world wide
Last Line: Pilgrimage singing in the stranger's mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Japan; Travel; Japanese; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have buried the city
Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity.
Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who climbs the equatorial main
Last Line: It sees all heaven before its view.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some morning I shall rise from sleep
Last Line: By the dim quayside and embark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Variant Title(s): The Last Voyage
Subject(s): Love; Reunions; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE OF THE 'OPHIR', by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of our race, we send you one
Last Line: And strength to service vowed.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGE; TO MAXIME DU CAMP, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the child, in love with maps and pictures
Last Line: What matter? Into the unknown in search of the new!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE VOYAGER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columbus-like, I sailed into the night
Last Line: Life's indies lay behind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Night; Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rare delight of seeing
Last Line: And where its voices call, thither my steps must be!
Subject(s): Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain
Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet were life, - this life, if we
Last Line: O'er the happy grass to find me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, - my chosen, - but not mine!
Last Line: Thine own, and only thine, my love, forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour of hesperus! The hour when feeling
Last Line: And to the distance sighingly entreat her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is unkind, unkind!
Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CONDEMNED ONES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above thy child I saw thee bend
Last Line: That hope to help us was not given!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: COUNT RINALDO RINALDI, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a dark-purple, moonlighted midnight
Last Line: The eyes of mnemosyne there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: DESIRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden planet of the occident
Last Line: Go forth, across the world, and find my love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What wonder that I loved her thus, that night?
Last Line: Her mystic name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: FATALITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen her, with her golden hair
Last Line: And its wild white stars that love us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: INDIAN LOVE SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body sleeps: my heart awakes
Last Line: Through mist and darkness moves toward thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One yellow star, the largest and the last
Last Line: That, through a rapture, I had toucht her hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends!
Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold
Last Line: Of elephanta, the red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A falling star that shot across
Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The love that deep within me lies
Last Line: Its rooted growth beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn
Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SINCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words like to these were said, or dreamed
Last Line: Must beat or break for. That is all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With shape to shape, all day
Last Line: Of still desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE LAST MESSAGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fling the lattice open
Last Line: Before the night is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE MAGIC LAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By woodland belt, by ocean bar
Last Line: "to one sweet note, sighed ""italy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death
Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair
Last Line: From perdition made so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: VENICE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sylphs and ondines
Last Line: To bury my heart -- one grave more to the many!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Venice, Italy; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: WARNINGS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware, beware of witchery!
Last Line: Cordelia!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: 'PRENSUS IN AEGAEO', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis toil must help us to forget
Last Line: And leads me...Whither? Whither?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A L'ENTRESOL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One circle of all its golden hours
Last Line: And the ghost of a dream I dreamed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: A REMEMBRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas eve and may when last, through tears
Last Line: An age ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, mignonne, ma belle -- when you are gone
Last Line: The poor thing's slumber. Let it still sleep on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ASTARTE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the latest strife is lost, and all is done with
Last Line: Mid the spirits that are passed beyond the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME AFTER THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clocks are calling three
Last Line: Some women have gone mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AT HOME DURING THE BALL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis hard upon the dawn, and yet
Last Line: Have beds below the willow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AU CAFE ***, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A party of friends, all light-hearted and gay
Last Line: In thy heart lurks a weird necromancer -- 't is thought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Paris, France; Parties; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there
Last Line: Non ti scordar di me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): At The Opera
Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the days are silent all
Last Line: "shall a voice still moan...""remember!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: MADAME LA MARQUISE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The folds of her wine-dark violet dress
Last Line: ...Is it worth while to guess at all this?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: PROGRESS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When liberty lives loud on every lip
Last Line: Even to thyself?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Travel; Liberty; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything
Last Line: For truth, these tears are true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SORCERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're a milk-white panther
Last Line: Night is coming forth. Arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TERRA INCOGNITA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet it is to sit beside her
Last Line: Cold, unspotted, let her go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little love, do you remember
Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE LAST REMONSTRANCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! I am worse than thou didst once believe me
Last Line: Still loving thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Love; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE NOVEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, I have a book at last
Last Line: And you have not learned to read it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Books; France; Love - Unrequited; Travel; Reading; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught
Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TO MIGNONNE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At morning, from the sunlight
Last Line: Things must rest so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'CARPE DIEM', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-morrow is a day too far
Last Line: Foresee the men we may be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..', by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked about at hampton court
Last Line: That pinched me all the while there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: BABYLONIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enough of simpering and grimace!
Last Line: The inmate of eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are going to marry my pretty relation
Last Line: And your worth not the best of your friends will disparage!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Marriage; Travel; English; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature!
Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: SEE-SAW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a harlot, and I was a thief
Last Line: With their hands, bless them all, in the popular purse!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE ALOE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stranger sent from burning lands
Last Line: It never came to blossom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE DEATH OF KING HACON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was odin that whispered in vingolf
Last Line: Shall stand in the battle again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the place by legends told
Last Line: Or -- was it never found?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; Truth; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE LAST TIME THAT I MET LADY RUTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some things hard to understand
Last Line: You see I can laugh. That is all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: A QUIET MOMEMENT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay with me, lady, while you may!
Last Line: Before again we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 4. IN SWITZERLAND: THE HEART AND NATURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake is calm; and calm, the skies
Last Line: On michael's brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Switzerland; Travel; Swiss; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a quiet dream last night
Last Line: That I could not speak a word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay awake past midnight
Last Line: "pray do not be afraid!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Ghosts; Netherlands; Supernatural; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A LETTER TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perchance, on earth, I shall not see thee ever
Last Line: Soothe flowers in spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way
Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: AUTUMN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So now, then, summer's over - by degrees
Last Line: But wrinkles and red hair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Autumn; Netherlands; Seasons; Travel; Fall; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: BLUEBEARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was to wed young fatima
Last Line: "that night, in her own fatal hair."
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CHRIST'S SYMPATHY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If jesus came to earth again
Last Line: The moving of thy hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thou never hast sought to divine
Last Line: That must yearn after thine till it dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest is the babe that dies within the womb
Last Line: And curst that death which steals this life's disguise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Death; Netherlands; Travel; Dead, The; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FAILURE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen those that wore heaven's armor worsted
Last Line: Last sentence!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Failure; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: FATIMA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A year ago thy cheek was bright
Last Line: When I talk in my dreams?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy
Last Line: A knife across her throat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): Check To Song
Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: JACQUELINE, COUNTESS OF HOLLAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it the twilight, or my fading sight
Last Line: Thy hand, my husband, -- so -- upon thy breast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Jacqueline Of Hainaut (1401-1436); Netherlands; Travel; Jacoba; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING LIMOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There once was a wicked, old, gray king
Last Line: And the love in her two large eyes?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: KING SOLOMON, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King solomon stood, in his crown of gold
Last Line: And they picked from the dust a golden crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: LEAFLESS HOURS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pale sun, through the spectral wood
Last Line: Is stolen the very snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MACROMICROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the star of solitude
Last Line: The sea-nymphs wander and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: METEMPSYCHOSIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She fanned my life out with her soft little sighs
Last Line: Yonder's my way now. Give place, if you please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MISANTHROPOS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day's last light is dying out
Last Line: God succeeds at last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: MYSTERY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour was one of mystery
Last Line: A song too sad for rhyme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night's in november: the winds are at strife
Last Line: To my twenty-fourth year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Birthdays; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: SMALL PEOPLE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The warm moon was up in the sky
Last Line: A man, -- to insult and to shoot!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CANTICLE OF LOVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I once heard an angel, by night, in the sky
Last Line: But there's one will not listen, and that one I love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE CASTLE OF KING MACBETH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the castle of king macbeth
Last Line: Whom no one knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE FUGITIVE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no quiet left in life
Last Line: And drove her wild across the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the gray sand-hills, o'er the cold sea-shore; where, dumbly peering
Last Line: Teach me unspoken, steadfast endurance; -- the silence of will!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; North Sea; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE PEDLER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man, whom you might see
Last Line: O, yet we might........Good by!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Peddlers & Peddling; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there?
Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO CORDELIA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not blame thee, that my life
Last Line: Have nothing left to dread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Hope; Netherlands; Travel; Optimism; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: TO THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I trust that never more in this world's shade
Last Line: Kind offices to death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Netherlands; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PRAYER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My saviour, dare I come to thee
Last Line: Lord! There is nothing hid from thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): Palingensis
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: A PSALM OF CONFESSION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full soon doth sorrow make her covenant
Last Line: Breaks, breaking from afar through a night shower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Confessions; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EPILOGUE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Change without term, and strife without result
Last Line: Thy tale is true, however weakly worded.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: EUTHANASIA (WRITTEN AFTER LONG ILLNESS), by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring to the world, and strength to me, returns
Last Line: A finer fervor trembles on its face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Euthanasia; Sickness; Travel; Illness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 6. PALINGENSIS: THE SOUL'S SCIENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can history prove the truth which hath
Last Line: Or vex me not with learned dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips
Last Line: And white death watching over red-lipped love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul lives on. What lives on with the soul?
Last Line: A little while of what was once so sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 3, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nurse of an ailing world, beloved night!
Last Line: Of suns that set not on eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night
Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know!
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE WATERSHED; LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN MUNICH AND VERONA, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black mountains pricked with pointed pine
Last Line: I flowed to italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WAY TO TRAVEL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people travel in their autos
Last Line: Of course it is the pocketbook!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must lie long in the weeds
Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light.
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight
Last Line: For the dusty day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


THE WEDDING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you, wherefore are the village bells
Last Line: To give sad meaning to the village bells!
Subject(s): Bells; Idleness; Marriage; Poverty; Strangers; Travel; Villages; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THE WEST, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We followed them into the west
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WESTERN JOURNALIST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a wonderful town,' said the newspaper
Last Line: "nor climate a career."
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Newspapers; Television - Interviewing; Travel; Work; Workers; Journalism; Journalists; Journeys; Trips


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I met him on the lachlan side
Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina
Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


THE WINTER TRAVELER, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God help thee, traveler, on thy journey far
Last Line: His lonely bark through the tempestuous tide.
Subject(s): Travel; Winter; Journeys; Trips


THE WONDER-SPRAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, there's joy in the spume and the wonder-spray
Last Line: To the land that the gods endow.
Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE WORLD, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It burns in the void
Last Line: Upheld by stillness.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces
Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Variant Title(s): The Dresser
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips


THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off
Last Line: "please write, ""I know."
Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THIS LITTLE WORLD, by HOMER HIGH CALHOUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We rode a tram, in london
Last Line: As you've of course -- inferred!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own
Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont."
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


THOUGHT DREAMS, by LILLIAN VIGGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Constant waves of beauty come
Last Line: And exalt the heart of man.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack
Last Line: Ship to the editor, marked c. O. D.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the travel logs that tell you
Subject(s): Travel; Life Choices; Journeys; Trips


THREE A.M., IN WINTER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went to zuni
Last Line: I touch sparks, I fly.
Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day long upon her throne
Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone!
Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TILL DAWN, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked through a waste with a deep pervading drear
Last Line: And sweep of light with thrilling hope and day.
Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east
Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium
Last Line: My heart at that location is present.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs
Last Line: Exist the vitals of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TIPPERARY: 5. BY OUR OWN EUGENE FIELD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been on many a lengthy trip since that I was
Last Line: There.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Field, Eugene (1850-1895); Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wouldst thou seek the low abode
Last Line: Of hermit happiness.
Subject(s): Comfort; Friendship; Life; Peace; Self-reliance; Solitude; Travel; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A FRIEND EXPRESSING A WISH TO TRAVEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou, then, listening to the traveller's tale
Last Line: Remember with a sigh the joys of home?
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Comfort; Happiness; Home; Pain; Solitude; Travel; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips


TO A FRIEND, ON HER RETURN FROM EUROPE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How smiled the land of france
Last Line: Gladness in heaven!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO A TRAVELLER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: After many a dusty mile
Last Line: It is pan that counsels you
Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile;
Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips


TO A WELSH MYSTIC, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes inspire: they draw their clear conviction
Last Line: As I have seen him at your clear windows.
Subject(s): Mysticism; Soul; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since long ago, a child at home
Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips


TO ARCADY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, singer, of the way
Last Line: "love's at home in arcady!"
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Range / a rest / face off
Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating


TO BUS NO. 12, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bus no. 12 / take my nostalgia
Last Line: My lover!
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Bus Terminals; Markets; Travel; Supermarkets; Journeys; Trips


TO CHARLES DICKENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go then to italy; but mind
Last Line: With little nelly nestling there.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


TO DR. MOORE, IN ANSWER TO POETICAL EPISTLE BY HIM IN WALES, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While in long exile far from you I roam
Last Line: And strives to utter what it feels, in vain.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Moore, Dr. John (1729-1802); Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO GO TO LVOV, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To go to lvov. Which station
Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Travel; Lviv, Ukraine; Lemberg, Austria; Journeys; Trips


TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE), by MAURICE BARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I too have travelled in the unknown land
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO HARRIET SHELLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As some blithe schooner sailing on the breast
Last Line: The silent dark thereafter to inherit!
Subject(s): Fate; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


TO HENRIETTA, ON HER DEPARTURE FOR CALAIS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When little people go abroad, wherever they may roam
Last Line: "is cat instead of rabbit, you must answer, ""tant mi-eux!"
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO HIS DEAR FRIEND MR. JOHN EMELY, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have other nations got that tempting art?
Last Line: And to thee my dejected life confine.
Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO HIS MISTRESS UPON GOING TO TRAVEL, by HENRY LAWES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, do not now delay me
Last Line: Which restrained, a heart is broken.
Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips


TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gaze upon a city
Last Line: I drink at rotterdam!
Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife
Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


TO JERICHO AND BACK, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time I a visit had paid
Last Line: May loving wishes soon summon you back!'
Subject(s): Guests; Jericho; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore
Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty!
Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


TO KALAKAUA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver ship, my king - that was her name
Last Line: Honolulu, feb. 3, 1889.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form
Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips


TO MY LITTLE SON, by RALPH CHAPLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot lose the thought of you
Last Line: With you so far away.
Subject(s): Longing; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO MYRTILLA OF NEW YORK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rockies, I own, are a beautiful sight
Last Line: There's nothing like you in the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


TO ONE LONG ABSENT, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the bridegroom comes with a surging / sound
Last Line: I run and catch hands with you?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO PRINCESS KAIULANI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from her land to mine she goes
Last Line: There alone. --
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN & ELIZABETH TREVELYAN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When one in java and cathay
Last Line: Had I not journeyed at your side.
Subject(s): Friendship; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, ON THE MASSACRE AT MILAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint, beyond all in glory who surround
Last Line: God will with wrath, look down.
Subject(s): Borromeo, Saint Carlo (1538-1584); Milan, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO TESTOSTERONE, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You took me to the spanish steps
Subject(s): Testosterone; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TO WESTWARD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I had expected reminders: somewhere in the dakota's carpet
Last Line: Men going nowhere, hands pocketed, heels kicking the wall
Subject(s): Middle West; Travel; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Journeys; Trips


TO WOUNDED FRANCE, by ANDRE GERMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of my birth, basket laden with all the fruits of life
Last Line: Fragrance dissolved, your shattered diadem!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Cities; France; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


TOLD BY 'THE NOTED TRAVELLER', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming, clean from the maryland-end
Last Line: The old black hide with its heart of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Ohio; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOMORROW, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomorrow we'll see the lightbulb in schenectady
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOMORROW, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your best friend is gone
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, where, or how, it matters not a damn
Last Line: Poor tin jack!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O SEA, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sea, with white lines of foam caught by the winter sun
Last Line: That listen let your strange vocabulary continue.
Subject(s): Old Age; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. OFF GASPE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few small huts, a narrow strip of cultivated land
Last Line: Have!
Subject(s): Greetings; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-ocean, night
Last Line: Light sways slowly.
Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FROM TURIN TO PARIS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tireless, hour after hour, over mountain plains and rivers
Last Line: And the glitter and the roar already, and the rush of the life of paris.
Subject(s): Paris, France; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemidorus, farewell
Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell."
Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TWIN STATUES OF AMENOPHIS III AT THEBES, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years
Last Line: "and placed them here—to last as long as heaven."
Subject(s): Statues; Thebes, Greece; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things come to an end; / small calves in arkansas
Last Line: No, they go on forever.
Subject(s): Arkansas; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


TRAINS IN THE GRASS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's fun to watch the trains go by
Last Line: And see the smoke curls die away.
Subject(s): Children; September; Travel; Childhood; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL, by BOYCE HOUSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chariots of brass
Last Line: Boyce house
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL, by MARGARET MARY LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never sailed the southern seas
Last Line: That spanned eternity.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to rise and go
Last Line: Of the old egyptian boys.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 10
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL ALARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because everything still bears
Last Line: Of green.
Subject(s): Clocks; Family Life; Time; Travel; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL PAPERS, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By boat to seurasaari where
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVEL SONG, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mad the torrent foams below us
Last Line: And the gentle breezes blow.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELED, by LUCY LOUISE HATCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've seen the blue of italian skies
Last Line: Though I've remained at home.
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELER'S CURSE AFTER MISDIRECTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "may they stumble, stage by stage"
Last Line: "now rib, now thigh, now arm, now shin, / but always, without fail, the neck"
Subject(s): Curses;hate;travel; Journeys;trips


TRAVELING ALONE, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the hotel coffee shop that morning
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am packing to go to the airport
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING LIGHT, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm only leaving you
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLER'S DUTY, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come day, go day
Last Line: But will not teach us how to do it!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLER'S JOY, by ROSALIND TRAVERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In greybeard blossoms over the brake
Last Line: Yea, such things are traveller's joy.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLERS, by PERCY ADDLESHAW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall lodge at the sign of the grave
Last Line: For perhaps it's a comfortless inn, my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemingway, Percy
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If e'er our minds be ill at ease
Last Line: To find us out in every place.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELLING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the spot - how mildly does the sun
Last Line: That my heart melts in me to think of it.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELOGUE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never have I journeyed
Last Line: Realm, the sky.
Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELOGUE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But no screen would show
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you could hear a town grow, to wonder about other, distant objects
Last Line: By thinking the thinking heart so smokeable
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELS WE TOOK IN OUR TIME, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Place become enough and too much
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TREEHOUSE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose kite was this?
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree
Last Line: But only god can make a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War


TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The english girl is being sick in the bushes
Last Line: That there always be other hills.
Subject(s): Thailand; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TRIP HOP, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll pack my toothbrush
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TWO PATHS, by MRS. EDGAR A. PERKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flaming sun sank down the western sky
Last Line: But I was not afraid.
Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


TWO TRAVELERS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two travelers, meeting by the way
Last Line: And made a comfortable end.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


TWO TREES IN KATHMANDU, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember, in that garden eastward
Last Line: East of wherever the gate closed on eden.
Subject(s): Cows; Eden; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ululani went to feed
Last Line: Will shine for ululani.
Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


UP AT A VILLA - DOWN IN THE CITY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I but plenty of money, enough and to spare
Last Line: Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
Subject(s): Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Uphill
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips


UPON FIRST SEEING NEW MEXICO MESAS AFTER A TRIP ABROAD, by GEORGE ST. CLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Much beauty have I seen these summer days
Last Line: My heart reserves its loyalty for you.
Subject(s): New Mexico; Travel; Journeys; Trips


UPON THIS PASSAGE IN THE SCALIGERIANA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you with high-dutch heeren dine
Last Line: They always talk, who never think.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips


VALE; FOR PAULINE JOHNSON, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone voyager! Thy ship of dreams
Last Line: The end of distance brings you rest!
Subject(s): Boats; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips


VALID, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having a pasaporte, how much more valid
Last Line: Tackle the razor wire!
Subject(s): Passports; Travel; Journeys; Trips


VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week
Last Line: The goldenrod and asters.
Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips


VERSES WRITTEN IN THE CHIOSK OF THE BRITISH PALACE, AT PERA, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me, great god! Said I, a little farm
Last Line: Who dare have virtue in a vicious age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary
Subject(s): Constantinople; Travel; Turkey; Istambul; Byzantium; Journeys; Trips


VIA LONGA, by PATRICK MCDONOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's far I must be going
Last Line: But that I find the way.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


VISIT OF HOPE TO SYDNEY COVE, NEAR BOTANY BAY, by ERASMUS DARWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where sydney cove her lucid bosom swells
Last Line: And peace, and art, and labour joined her train.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


VISITING, by ANNA PATTEN LOCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis fine to go a - visiting
Last Line: And take the long road home.
Subject(s): Guests; Homesickness; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


VOLAPUK, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I can speak
Last Line: Volapuk.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore
Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was.
Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


VOYAGER, by FRANK O'HARA (20TH CENTURY-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: He had returned from a far land; once more
Last Line: "of fire and snow"" . . . The uncle told a tale."
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


VOYAGERS, by WILLIAM E. SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was part of the lore of a sea-coast town
Last Line: Ay, wearied with questing for the vanished isle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faust, Henri
Subject(s): Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried
Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound.
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time, after being robbed of everything, I was a wanderer
Last Line: Theirs were fixed positions, no upward mobility
Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Tourists; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WANDERLIED, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, west of all the westward roads that woo ye to their winding
Last Line: It's there I'd lay me down at last and take my rest.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WARING, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's become of waring
Last Line: In vishnu-land what avatar?
Subject(s): Domett, Alfred (1811-1887); Travel; Trieste; Journeys; Trips


WASHINGTON, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think if I should die
Last Line: Once more to washington.
Subject(s): Mountains; Travel; Washington (state); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


WELCOME TO WINTERDYNE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Francie and willie, welcome to you
Last Line: Now it is welcome to winterdyne!
Subject(s): England; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


WEST BY NORTH AGAIN, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've drunk our wine, we've kissed our girls, and funds are sinking low
Last Line: Or, if she jilts you, may you get a better in her place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Travel; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


WEST SHORE ELERVASHUN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We held elecshun in our town
Last Line: Who haz the rite uv way?
Subject(s): Engineering & Engineers; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


WESTPORT, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the hilltop we could overlook
Last Line: Of wind through the roots of its clinging flowers.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man
Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan!
Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


WEYLA'S SONG, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art orplede, my land
Last Line: Kings, thy worshipers and watchers mild.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Home; Praise; Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We read the same books as children - kipling
Last Line: Line, gathering my way before the salty wind.
Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips


WHAT TWO KIDDIES SAW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two kiddies once went out for a walk
Last Line: Tis lacking in grace to even laugh.
Subject(s): Children; Travel; Walking; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


WHAT'S HERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Idaho potatoes have made it to honolulu
Last Line: I'll go soon. And, don't remember me.
Subject(s): Honolulu; Language; Travel; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air
Last Line: But not our english hills!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us
Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam.
Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


WHERE NEXT?, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm going on a journey -- oh, just a little journey
Last Line: Which, bye and bye, will take me pretty far!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHEREVER WE TRAVEL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHITE EYES, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends & relatives
Last Line: & everybody was watching.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips


WHOM DO YOU VISUALIZE AS YOUR READER?, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The humanities 5 section man
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WHY DID YOU DEPART AT DUSK?, by CLARISSA M. BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: On your last journey, why did you set out at dusk?
Last Line: Of earth? -- for, unafraid, at dusk you went away.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; Travel; Sunrise; Journeys; Trips


WHY?, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why? Friends ask. Why there? Why not
Last Line: Around the why? The shrug of friends.
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young men drift away from home; they
Last Line: The-hole!
Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese
Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait.
Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips


WILLIAM'S VISIT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He came like a slipknot his car
Last Line: Pretend it's paris june light until eleven o'clock
Subject(s): Automobiles; Guests; Travel; Cars; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


WITH WITHERAWAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whitheraways! - that's what I'll have to call
Last Line: The crying -- 'twill be easier for them to!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


WONDERFUL PLACES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I am haunted by wonderful places
Last Line: And not by human faces.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Colorado (river); Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


WRITING FOR MONEY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend and I have decided to write for money
Last Line: "that’s why I’m writing this poem,
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Travel; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips


WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, in the month of dark december
Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please
Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever.
Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips


WRITTEN IN IRELAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blest would be ierne's isle
Last Line: Wert thou as good as great.
Subject(s): Ireland; Travel; Irish; Journeys; Trips


YELLOWSTONE PARK-THE SECOND PARADISE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In ages past when art was young
Last Line: Within the walls of yellowstone.
Subject(s): Travel; Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips


YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the mane
Last Line: Across the worlds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips


YOUR PICNICS, by FLORENCE WENNER    Poem Text                    
Last Line: You took fried chicken every time!
Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips


YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With cheerful step the traveller
Last Line: The fears of wary age!
Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips