Chapter I: Front Matter

OXFORD GARLANDS

POEMS ON TRAVEL

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

INDEX OF AUTHORS

ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-88), 12, 13, 35, 38, 79, 95
BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (b. 1840), 78
BRIDGES, ROBERT (b. 1844), 11
BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-89), 49, 77, 91
BUTLER, ARTHUR GREY (1831-1909), 29
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON,
LORD (1788-1824), 25, 47, 53, 56, 60, 80, 87, 88, 96
CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART (1831-84), 99
CLEVELAND, JOHN (1613-58), 121
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819-61), 7, 18, 23, 48, 55, 64
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834), 14, 98
COWPER, WILLIAM (1731-1800), 118
FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1814-63), 107
GODLEY, ALFRED DENIS (b. 1856), 26
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728-74), 8
HARDY, THOMAS (b. 1840), 31, 62
HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845), 97, 99, 116
KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821), 39
LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE (1775-1864), 46, 74, 89
LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-95), 56
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH (1807-82), 5, 44, 69, 103, 108
MANGAN, JAMES CLARENCE (1803-49), 120
MARVELL, ANDREW (1621-78), 113
NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801-90), 75, 76
PHILLIMORE, JOHN SWINNERTON (b. 1873), 73
PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721,) 114
RODD, SIR RENNELL (b. 1858), 83, 85
ROGERS, SAMUEL (1763-1855), 51, 66
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL (1828-82), 112
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE (1792-1822), 52, 86
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-94), 121
SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON (1840-93), 38
TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD (1809-92), 7, 20, 21, 22, 40, 81
TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX (1807-86), 68, 77
WATTS-DUNTON, THEODORE (1832-1914), 32, 33
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-1850), 9, 10, 34, 62, 65, 108

POEMS ON TRAVEL

TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE

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 myself 5
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.

I see the convent's gleaming wall
Rise from its groves of pine,
And towers of old cathedrals tall,
And castles by the Rhine. 20

I journey on by park and spire,
Beneath centennial trees,
Through fields with poppies all on fire,
And gleams of distant seas.

I fear no more the dust and heat, 25
No more I fear fatigue,
While journeying with another's feet
O'er many a lengthening league.

Let others traverse sea and land,
And toil through various climes, 30
I turn the world round with my hand
Reading these poets' rhymes.

From them I learn whatever lies
Beneath each changing zone,
And see, when looking with their eyes, 35
Better than with mine own.

H. W. LONGFELLOW.

FANCIES FOR MEMORIES

Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits,
Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter earth,
Come, let us go,--to a land wherein gods of the old time wandered,
Where every breath even now changes to ether divine.
Come, let us go; though withal a voice whisper, 'The world
that we live in, 5
Whithersoever we turn, still is the same narrow crib;
'Tis but to prove limitation, and measure a cord, that we travel;
Let who would 'scape and be free go to his chamber and think;
'Tis but to change idle fancies for memories wilfully falser;
'Tis but to go and have been.'--Come, little bark! let us go. 10

A. H. CLOUGH.

THE CRY OF ULYSSES

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades 5 Vexed the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men, And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; 10 And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. 16

LORD TENNYSON.

THE TRAVELLER

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, 5 A weary waste expanding to the skies: Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 10 In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs--and God has given my share-- still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, 15 And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; 20 And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations passed, Here to return--and die at home at last.

O. GOLDSMITH.