Poems for Travellers

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. As internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux writes in his introduction, 'Here is a collection of travel poetry composed by real travellers, weekending tourists, feverish fantasists, bluffers, dreamers, brave adventurers and resolute stay-at-homes. It succeeds in what poetry does best - inspires and consoles, reminds us of who we are, where we've been, and where we might want to go next.'

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: There Are No Foreign Lands Poem - 1: 'There are no foreign lands' Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 2: A Prayer for Travellers Anon Poem - 3: On the World Francis Quarles Poem - 4: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon, Lord Byron Poem - 5: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats Poem - 6: Heaven-Haven Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem - 7: Travel Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 8: from My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 9: Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 10: The Vagabond Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 11: On Journeys Through The States Walt Whitman Poem - 12: Songs of Travel, X Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 13: from A Song About Myself John Keats Poem - 14: The Tables Turned William Wordsworth Poem - 15: from Song of the Open Road Walt Whitman Poem - 16: The Journey Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 17: Sonnet - to an American Painter Departing for Europe William Cullen Bryant Poem - 18: Out Where the West Begins Arthur Chapman Poem - 19: A Lover's Journey Rudyard Kipling Poem - 20: Historical Associations Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 21: from Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Poem - 22: Freedom Olive Runner Unit - 2: in Xanadu Poem - 23: Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 24: from A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Poem - 25: from Shah-Jahan Rabindranath Tagore Poem - 26: Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe Poem - 27: Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem - 28: Ithaka Constantine Cavafy Poem - 29: Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 30: Dream Land Christina Rossetti Poem - 31: Winter Journey Over The Hartz Mountain Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem - 32: The Golden Journey to Samakland James Elroy Poem - 33: from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 34: from Lycidas John Milton Poem - 35: Dream-land Edgar Allen Poe Poem - 36: from The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 37: from The Tempest: This Isle Is Full Of Noises William Shakespeare Unit - 3: The Way Through The Woods Poem - 38: The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling Poem - 39: Adlestrop Edward Thomas Poem - 40: My Heart's in the Highlands Robert Burns Poem - 41: Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 42: Loch Lomand Traditional Poem - 43: Highways and Byways Walter Wingate Poem - 44: A Smuggler's Song Rudyard Kipling Poem - 45: The Lake Isle of Innisfree W.B. Yates Poem - 46: The Fiddler of Dooney W.B. Yeats Poem - 47: from Elegy on Captain Cook Anna Seward Poem - 48: Home-Thoughts from Abroad Robert Browning Poem - 49: This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem - 50: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud William Wordsworth Poem - 51: Sudden Light Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem - 52: from Richard II, lines spoken by John of Gaunt William Shakespeare Poem - 53: A Strip of Blue Lucy Larcom Unit - 4: Where Go The Boats Poem - 54: Where go the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 55: Seaweed D.H Lawrence Poem - 56: O to sail Walt Whitman Poem - 57: Dover Beach Matthew Arnold Poem - 58: Ariel's Song William Shakespeare Poem - 59: The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear Poem - 60: I Was Born Upon Thy Bank Henry David Thoreau Poem - 61: from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon, Lord Byron Poem - 62: The Cataract of Lodore Robert Southey Poem - 63: Exultation is in the Going Emily Dickinson Poem - 64: The Secret of the Sea Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 65: In Cabin'd Ships At Sea Walt Whitman Poem - 66: Song John Davidson Poem - 67: The Winds of Fate Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poem - 68: I Saw a Ship a-Sailing Anon Poem - 69: All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters James Joyce Poem - 70: 'By lone St. Mary's silent lake' Sir Walter Scott Poem - 71: Anchored Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 72: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 73: Les Silhouettes Oscar Wilde Poem - 74: The Inchcape Rock Robert Southey Poem - 75: Possibilities Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem - 76: The Flying Dutchman Edwin Arlington Robinson Poem - 77: Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Lawrence Dunbar Poem - 78: There Is No Frigate Like A Book Emily Dickinson Poem - 79: Emigravit Helen Hunt Jackson Poem - 80: from Don Juan George Gordon, Lord Byron Unit - 5: Departure Platform Poem - 81: Departure Platform Thomas Hardy Poem - 82: From A Railway Carriage Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 83: To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman Poem - 84: Midnight on the Great Western Thomas Hardy Poem - 85: Taking the Night-Train Rupert Brooke Poem - 86: I like to see it lap the Miles Emily Dickinson Poem - 87: The Engine Ella Wheeler Wilcox Unit - vii: High Flight Poem - 88: High Flight John Gillespie Magee, Jr Poem - 89: To a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant Poem - 90: Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem - 91: To the Man-of-War Bird Walt Whitman Poem - 92: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman Unit - 6: Beautiful City Poem - 93: Beautiful City Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 94: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge William Wordsworth Poem - 95: Earthly Paradise William Morris Poem - 96: Twickenham Garden John Donne Poem - 97: The Fire of London John Dryden Poem - 98: Oranges and Lemons Anon Poem - 99: Easter Day Oscar Wilde Poem - 100: Place De La Bastille Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem - 101: Paris in Spring Sara Teasdale Poem - 102: The City's Love Claude McKay Poem - 103: America for Me Henry Van Dyke Poem - 104: The Harbor Dawn Hart Crane Poem - 105: from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman Poem - 106: To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane Poem - 107: Mannahatta Walt Whitman Poem - 108: The Taxi Amy Lowell Poem - 109: Broadway Sara Teasdale Poem - 110: Broadway Walt Whitman Poem - 111: Union Square Sara Teasdale Poem - 111: The Tropic in New York Claude McKay Poem - 112: The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Unit - 7: Home, Sweet Home Poem - 113: Home, Sweet Home! John Howard Payne Poem - 114: Home Anne Bronte Poem - 115: No Man is an Island John Donne Poem - 116: Sonnet 50 William Shakespeare Poem - 117: If Once You Have Slept on an Island Rachel Field Poem - 118: Up-Hill Christina Rossetti Poem - 119: Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson Poem - 120: Terminus Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem - 121: Love of Country Sir Walter Scott Poem - 123: So, We'll Go No More a-Roving George Gordon, Lord Byron Poem - 124: Crossing the Bar Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem - 125: The Unexplorer Edna St. Vincent Millay Index - ii: Index of Poets Index - iii: Index of Titles Index - iv: Index of First Lines