Poems on Travel
Robert Maynard Leonard , Various
81 chapters · 3 h 8 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Nemo, Lynda Marie Neilson, Ian King, Melanie T, Eva Davis (d. 2025) and others
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This volume of poetry takes the reader, or rather the listener, along on a literary tour through Europe. R.M. Leonard has collected the finest (as of 1914) poems by some of the most celebrated poets of the English language, all covering the subject of travel, and often concerning travelling to a certain city or region in Europe. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters
1 Travels by the Fireside, by H. W. Longfellow 2 min 2 Fancies for Memories, by A. H. Clough 1 min 3 The Cry of Ulysses, by Lord Tennyson 1 min 4 The Traveller, by O. Goldsmith 2 min 5 I Travelled among Unknown Men, by W. Wordsworth 1 min 6 Where Lies the Land, by W. Wordsworth 1 min 7 A Passer-by, by R. Bridges 2 min 8 At Carnac, by M. Arnold 2 min 9 The Grand Chartreuse, by M. Arnold 2 min 10 Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni, by S. T. Coleridge 5 min 11 Home, Rose, and home, Provence and La Palie, by A. H. Clough 4 min 12 There lies a Vale in Ida, by Lord Tennyson 2 min 13 Come down, O Maid, by Lord Tennyson 2 min 14 In the Valley of Cauteretz, by Lord Tennyson 1 min 15 Currente Calamo, by A. H. Clough 4 min 16 Cintra, by Lord Byron 1 min 17 Switzerland, by A. D. Godley 4 min 18 Zermatt Churchyard, by A. G. Butler 5 min 19 Zermatt, by T. Hardy 1 min 20 Natura Maligna, by T. Watts-Dunton 1 min 21 Natura Benigna, by T. Watts-Dunton 1 min 22 The Simplon Pass, by W. Wordsworth 2 min 23 Obermann, by M. Arnold 4 min 24 The Terrace at Berne, by M. Arnold 1 min 25 Never, O Never More, by J. A. Symonds 1 min 26 Happy is England, by J. Keats 1 min 27 The Daisy, by Lord Tennyson 7 min 28 Cadenabbia, by H. W. Longfellow 3 min 29 To Verona, by W. S. Landor 2 min 30 The Apennine, by Lord Byron 2 min 31 Where upon Apennine Slope, by A. H. Clough 1 min 32 De Gustibus -, by R. Browning 3 min 33 Venice, by S. Rogers 1 min 34 Ocean's Nursling, by P. B. Shelley 1 min 35 Venice, by Lord Byron 4 min 36 At Venice, by A. H. Clough 2 min 37 Florence, by Lord Byron 2 min 38 An Invitation to Rome, by F. Locker-Lampson 7 min 39 The Coliseum, by Lord Byron 3 min 40 At Rome, by W. Wordsworth 2 min 41 Rome, by T. Hardy 2 min 42 The Valley and Villa of Horace, by A. H. Clough 2 min 43 Vallombrosa, by W. Wordsworth 2 min 44 Paestum, by S. Rogers 5 min 45 Vesuvius, by R. C. Trench 1 min 46 Amalfi, by H. W. Longfellow 4 min 47 Viator, by J. S. Phillimore 3 min 48 Farewell to Italy, by W. S. Landor 2 min 49 Messina, by J. H. Newman 1 min 50 Taormina, by J. H. Newman 1 min 51 Home-thoughts, from the Sea, by R. Browning 1 min 52 Gibraltar, by R. C. Trench 1 min 53 Gibraltar, by W. S. Blunt 1 min 54 From 'the Scholar-Gypsy', by M. Arnold 2 min 55 Farewell to Malta, by Lord Byron 3 min 56 To Edward Lear, on his Travels in Greece, by Lord Tennyson 1 min 57 Hellas, by Sir Rennell Rodd 3 min 58 The Violet Crown, by Sir Rennell Rodd 2 min 59 Athens, by P. B. Shelley 2 min 60 Parnassus, by Lord Byron 2 min 61 Corinth, by Lord Byron 1 min 62 Corinna to Tanagra, by W. S. Landor 3 min 63 Waring, by R. Browning 6 min 64 On the Rhine, by M. Arnold 2 min 65 The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by Lord Byron 2 min 66 'Up the Rhine', by T. Hood 1 min 67 Cologne, by S. T. Coleridge 1 min 68 The Pursuit of Letters, by T. Hood 1 min 69 From 'Dover to Munich', by C. S. Calverley 5 min 70 Nuremberg, by H. W. Longfellow 5 min 71 Aged Cities, by F. W. Faber 1 min 72 Bruges, by W. Wordsworth 1 min 73 The Belfry of Bruges, by H. W. Longfellow 4 min 74 The Carillon, by D. G. Rossetti 2 min 75 Holland, by Andrew Marvell 3 min 76 The Hague, by M. Prior 2 min 77 Rotterdam, by T. Hood 2 min 78 The Progress of Error, by W. Cowper 4 min 79 Advice against Travel, by J. C. Mangan 1 min 80 Had Cain been Scot, by J. Cleveland 1 min 81 A Song of the Road, by R. L. Stevenson 2 min
