Around the World in 80 Poems

In the Victorian age that great adventurer Phileas Fogg attempted to traverse the globe in a mere 80 days using only the existing transport infrastructure and his own nous.

Today the globe can be spanned much quicker and in more comfortable fashion but alas without much of the intrigues, stories and landscape that accompanied Mr Fogg and made the trip so exciting.

In this volume we have an answer: Let's travel the globe with the words and verse of 80 esteemed and voluble poets. Let's explore places, peoples, philosophical musings on our world and all manner of things that Mr Fogg had no access to. With the words of classic poets such as John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Du Fu and Edna St Vincent Millay as your companions it's one heck of a journey.

1 - Around the World in 80 Poems - An Introduction
2 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay
3 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson
4 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne
5 - The World State by G K Chesterton
6 - The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
7 - In the Train and at Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
8 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca
9 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado
10 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa
11 - Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde
12 - To Italy by Radclyffe Hall
13 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke
14 - Sonnet to Lake Leman by Lord Byron
15 - Pathways by Rainer Maria Rilke
16 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy
17 - Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18 - Sonnet to Ocean by Thomas Hood
19 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field
20 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles
21 - Belgium by Edith Wharton
22 - Forced March by Miklos Radnoti
23 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge
24 - The Cretan Dance by Sappho
25 - The Isles of Greece by Byron
26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats
27 - Constantinople by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
28 - Beirut Wedding Poem by Tim Graham
29 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran
30 - Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker
31 - Walk to Caesarea by Hannah Senesh
32 - The City of Baghdad by Sultan Bahu
33 - Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
34 - To the Nile by Keats
35 - Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar
36 - My Africa by Gladys May Casely Hayford
37 - Africa by Lewis Alexander
38 - Poem by Sarah of Yemen
39 - Sleepless I Kept the Night Vigil by Khansa
40 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker
41 - A World with No Boundaries by Jalaluddin Rumi
42 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar
43 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal
44 - In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
45 - To the City of Bombay by Rudyard Kipling
46 - An Old Tibetan Rug by Else Lasker Schuler
47 - Dawn by Du Fu
48 - Chiang Chin Chiu by Li Po
49 - In Praise of May by Akiko Yosano
50 - Having Slept The Cat Gets Up by Kobayashi Issa
51 - The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
52 - The Loji Expedition by Tom Hood
53 - The Ocean by Nathaniel Hawthorne
54 - A Song for January the 26th 1824 by Charles Tompson
55 - Brother, You'll Take My Hand by Henry Lawson
56 - Tiare Tahiti by Rupert Brooke
57 - A Song of the Panama Canal by Damon Runyon
58 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger
59 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson
60 - North and South by Claude McKay
61 - Bermudas by Andrew Marvell
62 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
63 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell
64 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
65 - Away to Canada by Joshua McCarter Simpson
66 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman
67 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky
68 - A Dish of Peaches in Russia by Wallace Stevens
69 - Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville
70 - Iceland First Seen by William Morris
71 - My Artificial Flowers by Edith Sodergran
72 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse
73 - The Lake Isle of Inisfree by W B Yeats
74 - Beautiful Balmoral by William Topaz McGonagall
75 - To a Gentleman by Robert Burns
76 - In Praise of Wales by Talhaiarn
77 - Llyn Y Gadair by T H Parry-Williams
78 - Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
79 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
80 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston
81 - The World Soul by Ralph Waldo Emerson