The Oxford Book of Travel VerseKevin Crossley-Holland Oxford University Press, 1986 - 423 頁 Here is a poetry collection sure to delight and inspire the adventurous traveler and the armchair dreamer alike. As pilgrims, missionaries and explorers, as soldiers, diplomats, merchants and tourists, the British have for many centuries ventured forth to see the world. Among them have been great poets like Marvell, Shelley, Coleridge, and Rossetti, and some whose voices are less well-known, brought together for the first time in an anthology that charts the British abroad as reflected in their verse. The romantic passion of Wordsworth and Byron, fired by the awesome landscape of the Alps or the glories of Italy, is tempered by the reaction of travelers faced with discomfort, delay and dissapointment: James Boswell in Mannheim, Miss Emily Brittle on her way to India, and David Constantine watching for dolphins. Poet-adventurers and poet-diplomats, writing about voyages with Captain Cook and expeditions to Mt. Everest, the British in India and the Russian character and landscape, rub shoulders with sacred voyagers to the Holy Land and the contemporary day-visitor to France. Reflecting on their reactions to the new America are William McGonagall and Rudyard Kipling. While in the present century Lawrence Durrell, Alan Ross and D. J. Enright take us to Australia, the Far East and South America. At the end, the reader will have traveled to almost every country in the world and enjoyed selections from some five centuries of verse. |
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... o'er the ocean rears Its western edge ; where dimly disappears The Atlantic wave , the slow descending day Mild beaming pours serene the gentle ray Of Lusitania's winter , silvering o'er The tower - like summits of the mountain shore ...
... o'er the ocean rears Its western edge ; where dimly disappears The Atlantic wave , the slow descending day Mild beaming pours serene the gentle ray Of Lusitania's winter , silvering o'er The tower - like summits of the mountain shore ...
第 79 頁
... o'er the heath , When with the earliest dawn of day we left The solitary Venta . Soon the sun Rose in his glory ; scattered by the breeze , The thin fog rolled away , and now emerged We saw where Oropesa's castled hill Towered dark ...
... o'er the heath , When with the earliest dawn of day we left The solitary Venta . Soon the sun Rose in his glory ; scattered by the breeze , The thin fog rolled away , and now emerged We saw where Oropesa's castled hill Towered dark ...
第 280 頁
... o'er The stifled shrieks of thousands buried quick As lately when he pounced the speckled snake , Coiled in yon mallows and wide nettle - fields That mantle o'er the dead old Spanish town . Strange is the imagination's dread delight In ...
... o'er The stifled shrieks of thousands buried quick As lately when he pounced the speckled snake , Coiled in yon mallows and wide nettle - fields That mantle o'er the dead old Spanish town . Strange is the imagination's dread delight In ...
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