Songs for the Open Road Poems of Travel and

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.

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

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