POEMS ON TRAVEL

TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE

H. W. Longfellow.

FANCIES FOR MEMORIES

A. H. Clough.

THE CRY OF ULYSSES

Lord Tennyson.

THE TRAVELLER

O. Goldsmith.

I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN

W. Wordsworth.

WHERE LIES THE LAND

W. Wordsworth.

A PASSER-BY

R. Bridges.

AT CARNAC

M. Arnold.

THE GRAND CHARTREUSE

M. Arnold.

HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI

S. T. Coleridge.

HOME, ROSE, AND HOME, PROVENCE AND LA PALIE ITE DOMUM SATURAE, VENIT HESPERUS

A. H. Clough.

THERE LIES A VALE IN IDA

Lord Tennyson.

COME DOWN, O MAID

Lord Tennyson.

IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ

Lord Tennyson.

CURRENTE CALAMO

A. H. Clough.

CINTRA

Lord Byron.

SWITZERLAND

A. D. Godley.

ZERMATT CHURCHYARD

'C'était une guerre avec le Matterhorn,' said a Zermatt peasant of the many attempts to scale this great mountain

A. G. Butler.

ZERMATT TO THE MATTERHORN (June-July, 1897)

T. Hardy.

NATURA MALIGNA

T. Watts-Dunton.

NATURA BENIGNA

T. Watts-Dunton.

THE SIMPLON PASS

W. Wordsworth.

OBERMANN

M. Arnold.

THE TERRACE AT BERNE

M. Arnold.

NEVER, OH NEVER MORE

J. A. Symonds.

HAPPY IS ENGLAND

J. Keats.

THE DAISY WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH

Lord Tennyson.

CADENABBIA LAKE OF COMO

H. W. Longfellow.

TO VERONA

W. S. Landor.

THE APENNINE

Lord Byron.

WHERE UPON APENNINE SLOPE

A. H. Clough.

'DE GUSTIBUS——'

R. Browning.

VENICE

S. Rogers.

OCEAN'S NURSLING

P. B. Shelley.

VENICE

Lord Byron.

AT VENICE

A. H. Clough.

FLORENCE

Lord Byron.

AN INVITATION TO ROME

F. Locker-Lampson.

THE COLISEUM

Lord Byron.

AT ROME

W. Wordsworth.

ROME AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY AND KEATS

T. Hardy.

THE VALLEY AND VILLA OF HORACE

A. H. Clough.

VALLOMBROSA

W. Wordsworth.

PAESTUM

S. Rogers.

VESUVIUS AS SEEN FROM CAPRI

R. C. Trench.

AMALFI

H. W. Longfellow.

VIATOR

J. S. Phillimore.

FAREWELL TO ITALY

W. S. Landor.

MESSINA

'Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto.'

J. H. Newman.

TAORMINA

'And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him.'

J. H. Newman.

HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA

R. Browning.

GIBRALTAR

R. C. Trench.

GIBRALTAR

W. S. Blunt.

FROM 'THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY'

M. Arnold.

FAREWELL TO MALTA

Lord Byron.

TO E[DWARD] L[EAR], ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE

Lord Tennyson.

HELLAS

Sir Rennell Rodd.

THE VIOLET CROWN

Sir Rennell Rodd.

ATHENS

P. B. Shelley.

PARNASSUS

Lord Byron.

CORINTH

Lord Byron.

CORINNA TO TANAGRA FROM ATHENS

W. S. Landor.

WARING

R. Browning.

ON THE RHINE

M. Arnold.

THE CASTLED CRAG OF DRACHENFELS

Lord Byron.

'UP THE RHINE'

T. Hood.

COLOGNE

S. T. Coleridge.

THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS

T. Hood.

FROM 'DOVER TO MUNICH'

C. S. Calverley.

NUREMBERG

H. W. Longfellow.

AGED CITIES

F. W. Faber.

BRUGES

W. Wordsworth.

THE BELFRY OF BRUGES

H. W. Longfellow.

THE CARILLON ANTWERP AND BRUGES

D. G. Rossetti.

HOLLAND

Andrew Marvell.

THE HAGUE

M. Prior.

The Hague, 1696.

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ROTTERDAM

T. Hood.

THE PROGRESS OF ERROR

W. Cowper.

ADVICE AGAINST TRAVEL

J. C. Mangan.

HAD CAIN BEEN SCOT

J. Cleveland.

A SONG OF THE ROAD

R. L. Stevenson.

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NOTES

The difficulty has been to select from a wealth of poems with which volumes could have been filled. Indeed three collections dealing exclusively with Greece, with Italy, and with Switzerland have already been published by the Oxford University Press. In this volume the traveller is not confined to one country, and he is not asked to drag a lengthening chain beyond the limits of Europe. Here are some poems about travel generally, and then country by country a grand tour is traced. My obligation to the authors or owners of copyright poems is duly acknowledged with grateful thanks.

P. 7. Clough.—The opening lines of Amours de Voyage.

P. 7. Tennyson.—A few lines only from Ulysses.

P. 8. Goldsmith.—From The Traveller.

P. 11. Bridges.—By kind permission of the Poet Laureate and Messrs. Smith, Elder.

Pp. 12 and 13. Arnold.—From Stanzas composed at Carnac and Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.

Pp. 20 and 21. Tennyson.—The passage from Oenone and the idyll from The Princess are given here because their imagery was inspired by the Pyrenees, which the poet repeatedly visited, first of all in 1830 with Hallam, intending to aid in the Spanish revolt against Ferdinand VII. Tennyson also spent some time in the Pyrenees with Clough in 1861. It is Hallam who is referred to in In the Valley of Cauteretz, a poem which Tennyson selected to write in Queen Victoria's album. Swinburne has praised 'the solemn sweetness' of these 'majestic verses'.

P. 25. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto i, 18 and 19.

P. 26. Godley.—By permission of the author and Messrs. Methuen.

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P. 29. Butler.—By permission of Mrs. A. G. Butler. The poem originally appeared in The Times shortly after the Matterhorn accident in 1865.

P. 31. Hardy.—By permission of the author and Messrs. Macmillan.

Pp. 32 and 33. Watts-Dunton.—By kind permission of the author, given shortly before his death.

P. 35. Arnold.—The first portion is from Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann' (Étienne Pivert de Senancour); the second from Obermann once More, composed many years afterwards.

P. 38. Symonds.—By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder.

P. 47. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iv, 73, 74, and 75.

P. 48. Clough.—The concluding lines of the introduction to canto iii of Amours de Voyage.

P. 51. Rogers.—From Italy.

P. 52. Shelley.—From Lines written among the Euganean Hills.

P. 53. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iv, 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, and 13.

P. 56. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iv, stanzas 48, 49.

P. 60. Byron.—From Manfred, act III, sc. iv.

P. 62. Hardy.—From Wessex Poems, etc. By permission of the author and Messrs. Macmillan.

P. 64. Clough.—From Amours de Voyage, canto iii. There is a note to line 8:

P. 65. Wordsworth.—The first two stanzas 'Composed in the Simplon Pass', 1820. The concluding eight lines are from At Vallombrosa, written when the poet's 'fond wish' to visit this spot had been realized in 1837. Wordsworth is at pains to defend Milton from the charge of having blundered in Paradise Lost, by suggesting that the trees are 'deciduous[Pg 125] whereas they are, in fact, pines'. 'The fault-finders', Wordsworth says, 'are themselves mistaken; the natural woods of the region of Vallombrosa are deciduous.'

P. 66. Rogers.—From Italy.

P. 73. Phillimore.—By permission of the author.

P. 78. Blunt.—By permission of the author.

P. 81. Tennyson.—Lear was not only the inventor or popularizer of 'Limericks', but also a highly-esteemed artist.

Pp. 83 and 85. Rodd.—By permission of the author, who wrote the introduction to the Oxford anthology, The Englishman in Greece.

P. 86. Shelley.—Stanzas 4 and 5 of the Ode to Liberty.

P. 87. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto i, 60 and 61.

P. 91. Browning.—This poem is not complete.

P. 96. Byron.—From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iii, 55.

P. 99. Calverley.—This is a portion only of the poem.

P. 118. Cowper.—An extract from the long poem of the same title.

P. 121. Stevenson.—By permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus (and Messrs. Scribner's Sons in regard to the American rights).

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