The Oxford Book of Travel Verse - Softcover

About the editor:
Kevin Crossley-Holland has published four volumes of poetry and is also known as a writer for children. He is editor of The Anglo-Saxon World and Folk-Tales of the British Islands.

Instead Of An Interview by Karen Fleur Adcock
Immortal Glories In My Mind Revive by Joseph Addison
Genius Of Ancient Greece! Whose Faithful Steps by Mark Akenside
On Leaving Holland, Sels. by Mark Akenside
Written In Ireland by Mary (cumberland) Alcock
Prince Aldfrith's Itinerary Through Ireland by Aldfrith
The Musmee by Edwin Arnold
The Painted Streets Alive With Hum Of Noon by Edwin Arnold
To A Pair Of Egyptian Slippers by Edwin Arnold
A Dream by Matthew Arnold
Scenes From Carnac by Matthew Arnold
The Terrace At Berne by Matthew Arnold
Brussels In Winter by Wystan Hugh Auden
Journey To Iceland by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Oak And The Olive by George Barker
The Three Musicians by Aubrey Beardsley
Ode by William Beckford
Alpine Spirit's Song by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Gudveig by Francis Berry
The Small Towns Of Ireland by John Betjeman
The Holiday by Thomas Frank Bignold
The Lesser Evil by Eric Arthur Blair
The Cottage At Chigasaki by Edmund Charles Blunden
The Oasis Of Sidi Khaled by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Journal Of A Tour Through The Courts Of Germany, Sels. by James Boswell
The Bells Of Ostend (1) by William Lisle Bowles
An Egyptian Tomb by William Lisle Bowles
In Freiburg Station by Rupert Brooke
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke
Waikiki by Rupert Brooke
Anthropology: Cricket At Kano by Stewart Brown
The Visitor by Michael Dennis Browne
Return To Italy [or, Traveling South Toward Italy] by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So, I Mused %up And Down, Up And Down, The Terraced Streets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Englishman In Italy by Robert Browning
Home-thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning
Italy Of The South by Robert Browning
Up At A Villa - Down In The City by Robert Browning
Written On The Plain Of Thebes by John William Burgon
Description Of Holland by Samuel (1612-1680) Butler
A Psalm Of Montreal by Samuel (1835-1902) Butler
Farewell To Malta by George Gordon Byron
The Isles Of Greece, Stanzas 1-16 by George Gordon Byron
The Land Is Gone by George Gordon Byron
On The Bridge Of Sighs by George Gordon Byron
Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos by George Gordon Byron
Dover To Munich by Charles Stuart Calverley
The Fakir by Richard Owen Cambridge
Horses On The Camargue by Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell
The Dead Eagle; Written At Oran by Thomas Campbell
Epistle From Algiers (to Horace Smith) by Thomas Campbell
The Dutch by George Canning
Sonnet Upon A Swedish Cottage by John Carr
H.m.s. Glory At Sydney by Charles Causley
Sonnet by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
From A Journal From France by Gillian Clarke
Canto 1, 1. Claude To Eustace by Arthur Hugh Clough
Have You The Giesbach Seen? by Arthur Hugh Clough
'where A Roman Villa Stood, Above Freiburg' by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Cologne; Epigram by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Delinquent Travellers by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lines Written In The Album At Elbingerode, In Hartz Forest by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Netherlands by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On My Joyful Departure From The City Of Cologne by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Watching For Dolphins by David Constantine
The Bride's Song by William Johnson Cory
Mad Dogs And Englishmen by Noel Coward
From School To Cam Or Isis, And Thence Home by William Cowper
Postcards From Kodai by Kevin Crossley-holland
The India Guide; Or, Journal Of A Voyage To The East, Sels. by George Dallas
The Civil Wars Between The Two Houses Of Lancaster And York, Sels. by Samuel Daniel
Visit Of Hope To Sydney Cove, Near Botany Bay by Erasmus Darwin
A Meeting Of Cultures by Donald Davie
The Tourists by Cecil Day Lewis
The Diet Of Poland, A Satire, Sels. by Daniel Defoe
The Winning Of Cales by Thomas Deloney
The Image Of Irelande, Sels. by John Derricke
It Was A Wondrous Realm Beguiled by Alfred Domett
Behaviour Of Fish In An Egyptian Tea Garden by Keith Castellaine Douglas
The Private Of The Buffs; Or, The British Soldier In China by Francis Hastings Charles Doyle
At Epidaurus by Lawrence Durrell
Green Coconuts: Rio by Lawrence Durrell
Levant by Lawrence Durrell
Owed To America by Lawrence Durrell
Sarajevo by Lawrence Durrell
The Merchant At Yokohama by Osman Edwards
The Minister At Chiuzenji by Osman Edwards
The Missionary At Karnizawa by Osman Edwards
The Professor In Nirvana by Osman Edwards
China by William Empson
Deir El Bahari: Temple Of Hatshepsut by Dennis Joseph Enright
Dreaming In The Shanghai Restaurant by Dennis Joseph Enright
A Letter To The Earl Of Middleton by George Etherege
Daylight Still by Mary Ann Evans
Quit Now The Town, And With A Journeying Dream by Mary Ann Evans
On First Looking Into Michael Grant's Cities Of Vesuvius by Gavin Ewart
Dead Soldiers by James Fenton
Greek Archipelagoes by Patrick Leigh Fermor
From Grenoble by James Elroy Flecker
Riouperoux by James Elroy Flecker
The Traveller Has Regrets by George Sutherland Fraser
The Green Hills Of Africa by Roy Fuller
An Epistle To The Right Honourable William Pulteney by John Gay
The Kaleidscope by David Gill
Switzerland by Alfred Dennis Godley
The Swiss Peasant by Oliver Goldsmith
Africa by James Russell Grant
The Oleaster by Robert Ranke Graves
In Praise Of Seafaring Men, In Hopes Of Good Fortune by Richard Grenville
The Skeleton Of The Future; At Lenin's Tomb by Christopher Murray Grieve
And Forgetful Of Europe by Geoffrey Grigson
Discoveries Of Bones And Stones by Geoffrey Grigson
Iron Landscapes (and The Statue Of Liberty) by Thomson William Gunn
Lights Among Redwood by Thomson William Gunn
Tobacco Plant by Ivor Gurney
In The Old Theatre, Fiesole by Thomas Hardy
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden by Thomas Hardy
Prague Spring by Tony Harrison
Sentences: Brazil by Tony Harrison
Genius Of Greece! Thou Livest, Though Thy Domes by William Haygarth
Mournful Is The Remembrance Which Awakes by William Haygarth
The Pleasant Life In Newfoundland by Robert Hayman
The Parthenon by John Heath-stubbs
An Evening Walk In Bengal by Reginald Heber
Coming Home From Abroad by David Holbrook
A Day In France by David Holbrook
To Henrietta, On Her Departure For Calais by Thomas Hood
To His Wife (composed At Rotterdam) by Thomas Hood
Ye Tourists And Travellers Bound To The Rhine by Thomas Hood
Pelters Of Pyramids by Richard Hengist (henry) Horne
You Hated Spain by Edward James Hughes
Men Fishing In The Arno by Elizabeth Jennings
Air Travel In Arabia by Charles (1912-) Johnston
Ancient And Modern Rome, Sels. by George Keate
The Taj by H. G. Keene
Dublin Cares by William King
Buddha At Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling
Jobson's Amen by Rudyard Kipling
Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
Philadelphia by Rudyard Kipling
Stellenbosch by Rudyard Kipling
Sumo Wrestlers by James Kirkup
Corinna To Tanagra, From Athens by Walter Savage Landor
Garden At Heidelberg by Walter Savage Landor
Bare Almond Trees by David Herbert Lawrence
Bat by David Herbert Lawrence
Kangaroo by David Herbert Lawrence
Mountain Lion by David Herbert Lawrence
The Cummerbund by Edward Lear
Home From Abroad by Laurie Lee
The Mahratta Ghats by Alun Lewis
Port Of Call: Brazil by Alun Lewis
What Triumph Moves On The Billows So Blue by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Address To My Malay Krees by John Leyden
Christmas In Penang by John Leyden
Letter From Smyrna To His Sisters At Crux-easton by Thomas Lisle
A Painted Whore, The Mask Of Deadly Sin by William Lithgow
Still This, Still That I Would! All I Surmise by William Lithgow
A Night In The Red Sea by Alfred Comyns Lyall
Rajpoot Rebels by Alfred Comyns Lyall
Studies At Delphi, 1876 by Alfred Comyns Lyall
From The Closing Album by Frederick Louis Macneice
Letter To Graham And Anna by Frederick Louis Macneice
Mahabalipuram by Frederick Louis Macneice
Ravenna by Frederick Louis Macneice
Solitary Travel by Frederick Louis Macneice
A Lighthouse In Maine by Derek Mahon
Bermudas by Andrew Marvell
The Character Of Holland by Andrew Marvell
Sea-fever by John Masefield
Small Park In East Germany: 1969 by Gerda Mayer
Jottings Of New York by William Mcgonagall
Pictures Of The Rhine by George Meredith
Le Sacre-coeur by Charlotte Mew
From Almada Hill: An Epistle From Lisbon by William Julius Mickle
Sonnet On Passing The Bridge Of Alcantra, Near Lisbon by William Julius Mickle
From The Ionian Islands by Richard Monckton Milnes
Sir Walter Scott At The Tomb Of The Stuarts In St. Peter's by Richard Monckton Milnes
Tranquil Above The Rapids, Rocks And Shoals by Richard Monckton Milnes
Athens by John Milton
And There Is No Earthly Place by Thomas Moore
Song Of The Evil Spirit Of The Woods by Thomas Moore
Sapphics: At The Mohawk Castle, Canada by Thomas Morris
Gunnar's Howe Above The House And Lithend by William (1834-1896) Morris
Iceland First Seen by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Levant by Fynes Moryson
The Cloud by Edwin Muir
Salem, Massachusetts by Edwin Muir
The Good Samaritan by John Henry Newman
Glacier by Norman Nicholson
Breathless by Wilfred Noyce
The School Hockey Team In Amsterdam by Frank Ormsby
Hospital Barge At Cerisy by Wilfred Owen
Epigram On The Play At Amsterdam by William Parsons
The Man Of Taste by William Parsons
Ode To The Lake Of Geneva by William Parsons
On Descending The River Po by William Parsons
The Antarctic Muse by Thomas Perry
A Winter-piece; To The Earl Of Dorset by Ambrose Philips
The Goring by Sylvia Plath
The Cats Of Campagnatico by Peter Porter
Vienna by Peter Porter
The Desolate Valley by Thomas Pringle
The Hottentot by Thomas Pringle
The Lion-hunt by Thomas Pringle
The Secretary; Written At The Hague, 1696 by Matthew Prior
Upon This Passage In The Scaligeriana by Matthew Prior
A Poem To Show The Trouble That Befell Him by Thomas Prys
An Orchard At Avignon by Agnes Mary F. Robinson
Summer Journey by William Robert Rodgers
The Great Saint Bernard by Samuel Rogers
Naples by Samuel Rogers
Koala by Alan Ross
'italia, Io Ti Saluto!' by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Antwerp And Bruges by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
From A Trip To Paris And Belgium by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Villa D'este Gardens by Siegfried Sassoon
Saint Cloud by Walter Scott
The Englishman On The French Stage by Owen Seaman
The Schoolmaster Abroad by Owen Seaman
I Rode One Evening With Count Maddalo by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mont Blanc; Lines Written In The Vale Of Chamouni by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Field Ambulance In Retreat; Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra by May Sinclair
Over The Wall: Berlin, May 1975 by Charles Hubert Sisson
The Suttee by Thomas Skinner
Recollections Of A Day's Journey In Spain by Robert Southey
The Empire Clock by Bernard Spencer
Port Bou by Stephen Spender
England And America: 1. On A Rhine Steamer by James Kenneth Stephen
Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
Songs Of Travel: 40. Tropic Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson
To An Island Princess by Robert Louis Stevenson
Aecclesiae Et Reipub by William Strachey
Insularum Ocelle by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Scenes De La Vie De Boheme, Sels. by Arthur Symons
Spain by Arthur Symons
Prague by John (1750-1826) Taylor
Travels From London To Prague, Sels. by John (1750-1826) Taylor
Frater Ave Atque Vale by Alfred Tennyson
Jamaican Bus Ride by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
Where by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
The Ballad Of Bouillabaisse by William Makepeace Thackeray
Peg Of Limavaddy by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tangier: Hotel Rif by Donald Michael Thomas
In A Shuttered Room I Roast by Dylan Thomas
An Humble Wish. Off Porto-sancto, March 29, 1779 by Edward (1739-1786) Thompson
The Indian Maid. Demararie, Oct. 27, 1781 by Edward (1739-1786) Thompson
Arabic Script by Anthony Thwaite
Switzerland by Anthony Thwaite
Egyptian Dancer by Terence Tiller
Gibraltar by Richard Chenevix Trench
A Legend Of Alhambra by Richard Chenevix Trench
From The African Desert by Martin Farquhar Tupper
A Letter From Russia. To Spencer by George Turberville
To Parker by George Turberville
Unable By Long And Hard Travel To Banish Love Returns by George Turberville
Epigram On Sir Francis Drake by Anonymous
The Journey Into France by Anonymous
Oh Thou - Whose Great Imperial Mind Could Raise by Anonymous
The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage And Seasickness by Anonymous
Van Dieman's Land (1) by Anonymous
The Warlike Of The Isles by Anonymous
The Way To Jerusalem by Anonymous
Western Wind (2) by Anonymous
Ode To The Last Pot Of Marmalade by Anonymous - British
Farewell To New Zealand by Wynford Vaughan-thomas
Brooklyn Heights by John Wain
The Emigres by Ted Walker
Palm Trees by Rex Warner
The Revenge Of America by Joseph Warton
Verses Written At Montauban In France, 1750 by Joseph Warton
Camels In Persia by Dorothy Wellesley
First Flight by Dorothy Wellesley
The Grave Of Shelley by Oscar Wilde
Aborigine by Hugo Williams
Denmark by Humbert Wolfe
Crossing The Alps by William Wordsworth
Evening On Calais Beach by William Wordsworth
Incident At Bruges by William Wordsworth
Lucy (1) by William Wordsworth
Residence In France And French Revolution by William Wordsworth