The Poetry Of Travel
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Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands. In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known. This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind. They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected. Of course when the authors include Wordsworth, Stevenson, Keats and others perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability. Many of these titles are on our audiobook version which can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) was an influential English poet and novelist of the Romantic era. Born in London, she experienced numerous personal and financial challenges throughout her life, which deeply influenced her writing. Smith gained recognition with the publication of her acclaimed collection of poems 'Elegiac Sonnets' in 1784.
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The Poetry Of Travel - Charlotte Smith
The Poetry Of Travel
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we explore travel through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide.
Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different cultures and new lands.
In the modern day a few hours on a plane will take us to an entirely different environment whereas a hundred years ago or more any form of transport would have been far slower paced but getting there was also part of the adventure, the gradual transition from what is known to what is about to be known.
This collection of poems takes us across a wide variety of travels and environments both real and in the mind. They summon up descriptions and feelings that are sometimes totally unexpected. Of course when the authors include William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Amy Levy, Walt Whitman, Daniel Sheehan and others perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised but allow ourselves to be indulged by their ability.
Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among our readers are Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe
Index Of Poems
A Statesman's Holiday by William Butler Yeats
Beachy Head by Charlotte Smith
Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Ballade Of An Omnibus by Amy Levy
In The Train By James Thomson
In This Journey By Daniel Sheehan
Foreign Lands (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land of Nod (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
Looking-Glass River (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
From A Railway Carriage (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
My Ship and I (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel (From Child's Garden Of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
Where Go the Boats? (From Child's Garden of Verses) By Robert Louis Stevenson
Ozymandias By Shelley
Beautiful City By Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Isles Of Greece By Lord Byron
Sonnet To Lake Leman By Lord Byron
On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The First Time By John Keats
On The Sea By John Keats
To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent By John Keats
To The Nile By John Keats
And Your Feet Are The Author, Your Eyes Every Page By Daniel Sheehan
This Black Ribbon Freeway By Daniel Sheehan
In The Belly Of This Metal Beast By Daniel Sheehan
Sailing to Byzantium By WB Yeats
Cities And Thrones And Powers
By Rudyard Kipling
The Ancient Arteries Of America By Daniel Sheehan
By My Two Feet And Endless Times By Daniel Sheehan
Rhyme Of The Rail By John Godfrey Saxe
To A Locomotive In Winter By Walt Whitman
A Song Of The Road By Robert Louis Stevenson
Cruisers By Rudyard Kipling
Stanzas From The Grande Chartreuse By Matthew Arnold
To The City Of Bombay By Rudyard Kipling
To Princess Kaiulani By Robert Louis Stevenson
I Travell'd Among Unknown Men By William Wordsworth
Mandalay By Rudyard Kipling
In Amsterdam By Eugene Field
Admonition To A Traveller By William Wordsworth
Going Down Hill On A Bicycle, A Boy's Song By Henry Charles Beeching
The Canoe Speaks By Robert Louis Stevenson
Fair Isle At Sea By Robert louis Stevenson
Song Of The Open Road By Walt Whitman
Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth
France An Ode By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
England & Switzerland By William Wordsworth
A Statesman's Holiday by William Butler Yeats
I lived among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
No Oscar ruled the table,
But I'd a troop of friends
That knowing better talk had gone
Talked of odds and ends.
Some knew what ailed the world
But never said a thing,
So I have picked a better trade
And night and morning sing:
Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.
Am I a great Lord Chancellor
That slept upon the Sack?
Commanding officer that tore
The khaki from his back?
Or am I de Valera,
Or the King of Greece,
Or the man that made the motors?
Ach, call me what you