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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... wall . The tall policeman bent over me like the priest Of an evil religion , as if I were the elements And he the ... walls there was no one by . 4 I know only aspen , beech , oak But here in these wastes the turtle Sang among the ...
... wall . The tall policeman bent over me like the priest Of an evil religion , as if I were the elements And he the ... walls there was no one by . 4 I know only aspen , beech , oak But here in these wastes the turtle Sang among the ...
第 305 頁
... walls And gateways , to the river and the bridge Under the city walls . SIR ALFRED LYALL 1835-1911 Studies at Delhi , 1876 1. THE HINDU ASCETIC Here as I sit by the Jumna bank , Watching the flow of the sacred stream , Pass me the ...
... walls And gateways , to the river and the bridge Under the city walls . SIR ALFRED LYALL 1835-1911 Studies at Delhi , 1876 1. THE HINDU ASCETIC Here as I sit by the Jumna bank , Watching the flow of the sacred stream , Pass me the ...
第 332 頁
... Wall as a dragon crawls To one who flies or one who sees The twisted contour of their walls A liver fluke of sheep agrees Most rightly proud of her complacencies With snail so well they make one piece Most wrecked and longest of all ...
... Wall as a dragon crawls To one who flies or one who sees The twisted contour of their walls A liver fluke of sheep agrees Most rightly proud of her complacencies With snail so well they make one piece Most wrecked and longest of all ...
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