Poems on Travel
OXFORD GARLANDS
SELECTED BY R. M. LEONARD
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Cowper.
HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY 1914
OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane, Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.
It drives me in upon myself5 And to the fireside gleams, To pleasant books that crowd my shelf, And still more pleasant dreams.
I read whatever bards have sung Of lands beyond the sea,10 And the bright days when I was young Come thronging back to me.
In fancy I can hear again The Alpine torrent's roar, The mule-bells on the hills of Spain,15 The sea at Elsinore.
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POEMS ON TRAVEL
INDEX OF AUTHORS
TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE
FANCIES FOR MEMORIES
THE CRY OF ULYSSES
THE TRAVELLER
I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN
WHERE LIES THE LAND
A PASSER-BY
AT CARNAC
THE GRAND CHARTREUSE
HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI
THERE LIES A VALE IN IDA
COME DOWN, O MAID
IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ
CURRENTE CALAMO
CINTRA
SWITZERLAND
ZERMATT CHURCHYARD
NATURA MALIGNA
NATURA BENIGNA
THE SIMPLON PASS
OBERMANN
THE TERRACE AT BERNE
NEVER, OH NEVER MORE
HAPPY IS ENGLAND
TO VERONA
THE APENNINE
WHERE UPON APENNINE SLOPE
'DE GUSTIBUS——'
VENICE
OCEAN'S NURSLING
VENICE
AT VENICE
FLORENCE
AN INVITATION TO ROME
THE COLISEUM
AT ROME
THE VALLEY AND VILLA OF HORACE
VALLOMBROSA
PAESTUM
AMALFI
VIATOR
FAREWELL TO ITALY
MESSINA
TAORMINA
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM THE SEA
GIBRALTAR
GIBRALTAR
FROM 'THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY'
FAREWELL TO MALTA
TO E[DWARD] L[EAR], ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE
HELLAS
THE VIOLET CROWN
ATHENS
PARNASSUS
CORINTH
WARING
ON THE RHINE
THE CASTLED CRAG OF DRACHENFELS
'UP THE RHINE'
COLOGNE
THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS
FROM 'DOVER TO MUNICH'
NUREMBERG
AGED CITIES
BRUGES
THE BELFRY OF BRUGES
HOLLAND
THE HAGUE
ROTTERDAM
THE PROGRESS OF ERROR
ADVICE AGAINST TRAVEL
HAD CAIN BEEN SCOT
A SONG OF THE ROAD