Songs of Travel E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Seltzer Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 43

Beschreibung

Short poetry collection. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, and J. M. Barrie. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their definition of modernism. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon."

Leseprobe

SONGS OF TRAVEL AND OTHER VERSES BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

Books and Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Across the Plains

The Art of Writing

Ballads

Black Arrow

The Bottle Imp

Catriona or David Balfour (sequel to Kidnapped)

A Child's Garden of Verses

The Ebb-Tide

Edinburgh

Essays

Essays of Travel

Fables

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Father Damien

Footnote to History

In the South Seas

An Inland Voyage

Island Nights' Entertainments

Kidnapped

Lay Morals

Letters

Lodging for the Night

Markheim

Master of Ballantrae

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

Memories and Portraits

Merry Men

Moral Emblems

New Arabian Nights

New Poems

The Pavilion on the Links

Four Plays

The Pocket R. L. S.

Prayers Written at Vailima

Prince Otto

Records of a Family of Engineers

The Sea Fogs

The Silverado Squatters

Songs of Travel

St. Ives

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tales and Fantasies

Thrawn Janet

Travels with a Donkey

Treasure Island

Underwoods

Vailima Letters

Virginibus Puerisque

The Waif Woman

Weir of Hermiston

The Wrecker

The Wrong Box

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I.       THE VAGABOND - Give to me the life I love

II.      YOUTH AND LOVE: I. - Once only by the garden gate

III.     YOUTH AND LOVE: II. - To the heart of youth the world is

          a highwayside

IV.      In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand

V.       She rested by the Broken Brook

VI.      The infinite shining heavens

VII.     Plain as the glistering planets shine

VIII.    To you, let snows and roses

IX.      Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams

X.       I know not how it is with you

XI.      I will make you brooches and toys for your delight

XII.     WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE - Berried brake and reedy island

XIII.    MATTER TRIUMPHANS - Son of my woman's body, you go, to

          the drum and fife

XIV.     Bright is the ring of words

XV.      In the highlands, in the country places

XVI.     Home no more home to me, wither must I wander?

XVII.    WINTER - In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane

XVIII.   The stormy evening closes now in vain

XIX.     TO DR. HAKE - In the beloved hour that ushers day

XX.      TO - I knew thee strong and quiet like the hills

XXI.     The morning drum-call on my eager ear

XXII.    I have trod the upward and downward slope

XXIII.   He hears with gladdened heart the thunder

XXIV.    Farewell, fair day and fading light!

XXV.     IF THIS WERE FAITH - God, if this were enough

XXVI.    MY WIFE - Trusty, dusky, vivid, true

XXVII.   TO THE MUSE - Resign the rhapsody, the dream

XXVIII.  TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS - Since long ago, a child at home

XXIX.    TO KALAKAUA - The Sliver Ship, my King - that was her name

XXX.     TO PRINCESS KAIULANI - Forth form her land to mine she goes

XXXI.    TO MOTHER MARYANNE - To see the infinite pity of this place

XXXII.   IN MEMORIAM E. H. - I knew a silver head was bright beyond compare

XXXIII.  TO MY WIFE - Long must elapse ere you behold again

XXXIV.   TO MY OLD FAMILIARS - Do you remember - can we e'er forget?

XXXV.    The tropics vanish, and meseems that I

XXXVI.   TO S. C. - I heard the pulse of the besieging sea

XXXVII.  THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA - Let us, who part like brothers, part

          like bards

XXXVIII. THE WOODMAN - In all the grove, not stream nor bird

XXXIX.   TROPIC RAIN - As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is

          mingled well

XL.      AN END OF TRAVEL - Let now your soul in this substantial world

XLI.     We uncommiserate pass into the night

XLII.    Sing me a song of a lad that is gone

XLIII.   TO S. R. CROCKETT - Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and rain

          are flying

XLIV.    EVENSONG - The embers of the day are red

I - THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert)

GIVE to me the life I love,

Let the lave go by me,

Give the jolly heaven above

And the byway nigh me.

Bed in the bush with stars to see,

Bread I dip in the river -

There's the life for a man like me,

There's the life for ever.

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o'er me;

Give the face of earth around

And the road before me.

Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I seek, the heaven above

And the road below me.

Or let autumn fall on me

Where afield I linger,

Silencing the bird on tree,

Biting the blue finger.

White as meal the frosty field -

Warm the fireside haven -

Not to autumn will I yield,

Not to winter even!

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o'er me;

Give the face of earth around,

And the road before me.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I ask, the heaven above

And the road below me.

II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I

ONCE only by the garden gate

Our lips we joined and parted.

I must fulfil an empty fate

And travel the uncharted.