Around the World in 80 Poems: A global tour of classic poetry

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by Sean Barrett, Ghizela Rowe and Tim Graham

In the Victorian age that great adventurer Phileas Fogg attempted to traverse the globe in a mere 80 days using only the existing transport infrastructure and his own nous.

Today the globe can be spanned much quicker and in more comfortable fashion but alas without much of the intrigues, stories and landscape that accompanied Mr Fogg and made the trip so exciting.

In this volume we have an answer: Let’s travel the globe with the words and verse of 80 esteemed and voluble poets. Let’s explore places, peoples, philosophical musings on our world and all manner of things that Mr Fogg had no access to. With the words of classic poets such as John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Du Fu and Edna St Vincent Millay as your companions it’s one heck of a journey.

1 - Around the World in 80 Poems - An Introduction

2 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay

3 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

4 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne

5 - The World State by G K Chesterton

6 - The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud

7 - In the Train and at Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

8 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca

9 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado

10 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa

11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde

12 - To Italy by Radclyffe Hall

13 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke

14 - Sonnet to Lake Leman by Lord Byron

15 - Pathways by Rainer Maria Rilke

16 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy

17 - Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 - Sonnet to Ocean by Thomas Hood

19 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field

20 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

21 - Belgium by Edith Wharton

22 - Forced March by Miklos Radnoti

23 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge

24 - The Cretan Dance by Sappho

25 - The Isles of Greece by Byron

26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats

27 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

28 - Beirut Wedding Poem by Tim Graham

29 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran

30 - Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker

31 - Walk to Caesarea by Hannah Senesh

32 - The City of Baghdad by Sultan Bahu

33 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

34 - To the Nile by Keats

35 - Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar

36 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford

37 - Africa by Lewis Alexander

38 - Poem by Sarah of Yemen

39 - Sleepless I Kept the Night Vigil by Khansa

40 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker

41 - A World with No Boundaries by Jalaluddin Rumi

42 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar

43 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal

44 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu

45 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling

46 - An Old Tibetan Rug by Else Lasker Schuler

47 - Dawn by Du Fu

48 - Chiang Chin Chiu by Li Po

49 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano

50 - Having Slept The Cat Gets Up by Kobayashi Issa

51 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

52 - The Loji Expedition by Tom Hood

53 - The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne

54 - A Song for January the 26th 1824 by Charles Tompson

55 - Brother, You'll Take My Hand by Henry Lawson

56 - Tiare Tahiti by Rupert Brooke

57 - A Song of the Panama Canal by Damon Runyon

58 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger

59 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson

60 - North and South by Claude McKay

61 - Bermudas by Andrew Marvell

62 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

63 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell

64 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

65 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson

66 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman

67 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky

68 - A Dish of Peaches in Russia by Wallace Stevens

69 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville

70 - Iceland First Seen by William Morris

71 - My Artificial Flowers by Edith Sodergran

72 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse

73 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by W B Yeats

74 - Beauti

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835478011

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer. Born the son of a lighthouse engineer, Stevenson suffered from a lifelong lung ailment that forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates. Rather than follow his father’s footsteps, Stevenson pursued a love of literature and adventure that would inspire such works as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).