Songs for the Open Road Poems of Travel and Adventure

by American Poetry & Literacy Project, The

• ISBN13: 9780486406466
• ISBN10: 0486406466
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.

Table of Contents

SONGS FOR THE OPEN ROAD
From Song of the Open Road.
Walt Whitman	1	(1)
There Is No Frigate Like a Book.
Emily Dickinson	1	(1)
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
George Gordon, Lord Byron	1	(1)
The Vagabond.
Robert Louis Stevenson	2	(1)
Ithaka.
Constantine Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)	3	(1)
Song of Songs.
(from the Song of Solomon, 2:10-13 King James Bible)	4	(1)
what is.
E.E. Cummings	4	(1)
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond.
E.E. Cummings	5	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
John Keats	6	(1)
On Journeys Through the States.
Walt Whitman	6	(1)
Recuerdo.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	7	(1)
A Vagabond Song.
Bliss Carman	7	(1)
From A Rolling Stone.
Robert Service	8	(1)
The Land of Beyond.
Robert Service	8	(1)
On the World.
Francis Quarles	9	(1)
Great things are done when men & mountains meet.
William Blake	9	(1)
Roadways.
John Masefield	9	(1)
Out Where the West Begins.
Arthur Chapman	10	(1)
Highway.
Gene Zeiger	11	(1)
The Sacred.
Stephen Dunn	12	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
William Butler Yeats	12	(1)
I Was Born Upon Thy Bank, River.
Henry David Thoreau	13	(1)
The Road Not Taken.
Robert Frost	13	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Robert Frost	13	(1)
Acquainted with the Night.
Robert Frost	14	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer.
Walt Whitman	14	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers.
Langston Hughes	15	(1)
The Stolen Child.
William Butler Yeats	15	(2)
Sonnet-to an American Painter Departing for Europe.
William Cullen Bryant	17	(1)
Into My Own.
Robert Frost	17	(1)
Escapist-Never.
Robert Frost	18	(1)
To the Not Impossible Him.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	18	(1)
SEA, RAIL AND SKY
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
George Gordon, Lord Byron	19	(1)
Sea-Fever.
John Masefield	19	(1)
Exultation is in the Going.
Emily Dickinson	20	(1)
The Secret of the Sea.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	20	(1)
Put Off Thy Bark from Shore, Though Near the Night.
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman	21	(1)
Golden Moonrise.
William Stanley Braithwaite	22	(1)
Exiled.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	22	(1)
A Strip of Blue.
Lucy Larcom	23	(2)
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.
Walt Whitman	25	(1)
Columbus.
Joaquin Miller	25	(2)
Song.
John Davidson	27	(1)
The Winds of Fate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	27	(1)
Seafarer.
Archibald MacLeish	27	(1)
All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters.
James Joyce	28	(1)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	28	(1)
From the Shore.
Carl Sandburg	28	(1)
Les Silhouettes (from Impressions).
Oscar Wilde	29	(1)
The Flying Dutchman.
Edwin Arlington Robinson	29	(1)
Ships That Pass in the Night.
Paul Laurence Dunbar	30	(1)
From My Lost Youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	31	(1)
Emigravit.
Helen Hunt Jackson	31	(1)
Possibilities.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	32	(1)
Song.
Elizabeth Bishop	32	(1)
Death of an Old Seaman.
Langston Hughes	33	(1)
Ulysses.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	33	(2)
Travel.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	35	(1)
I like to see it lap the Miles.
Emily Dickinson	35	(1)
Riding on a Railroad Train.
Ogden Nash	36	(1)
Taking the Night-Train.
John James Piatt	37	(1)
Night Journey.
Theodore Roethke	37	(1)
Window.
Carl Sandburg	38	(1)
Pennsylvania Station.
Langston Hughes	38	(1)
The Engine.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	39	(1)
Midnight on the Great Western.
Thomas Hardy	39	(1)
To a Locomotive in Winter.
Walt Whitman	40	(1)
A Dream of Trains.
Mark Van Doren	41	(1)
High Flight.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.	41	(1)
First Flight.
Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington	42	(1)
To a Waterfowl.
William Cullen Bryant	43	(1)
The Journey is Everything.
Helen Bevington	44	(1)
Sympathy.
Paul Laurence Dunbar	45	(1)
To the Man-of-War Bird.
Walt Whitman	45	(1)
Get Up, Blues.
James A. Emanuel	46	(1)
HOME, REST AND FINAL VOYAGES
From Little Gidding.
T.S. Eliot	47	(1)
Into My Heart an Air That Kills.
A.E. Housman	47
Love of Country (from The Lay of the Last Minstrel).
Sir Walter Scott	48	(1)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad.
Robert Browning	48	(1)
The Tropics in New York.
Claude McKay	49	(1)
America for Me.
Henry Van Dyke	49	(1)
The New Colossus.
Emma Lazarus	50	(1)
Home.
Anne Bronte	50	(1)
The Long Voyage.
Malcolm Cowley	51	(1)
Home, Sweet Home!
John Howard Payne	52	(1)
Anchored.
Paul Laurence Dunbar	52	(1)
Terminus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	53	(1)
The Tramps.
Robert Service	54	(1)
Heart o' the North.
Robert Service	54	(1)
Requiem.
Robert Louis Stevenson	55	(1)
Tavern.
Edna St. Vincent Millay	55	(1)
Up-Hill.
Christina Rossetti	55	(1)
The Listeners.
Walter de la Mare	56	(1)
Dream-Land.
Edgar Allan Poe	57	(1)
The Chariot.
Emily Dickinson	58	(1)
Heaven-Haven.
Gerard Manley Hopkins	59	(1)
Dream Land.
Christina Rossetti	59	(1)
Ozymandias.
Percy Bysshe Shelley	60	(1)
Crossing the Bar.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	61	(1)
Index	62