Famous Expeditions Poems by Famous Poets

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In Modern Dress

...rhaps,
some future time
of altered favour,

stuck in the high chair
like a pillory, features
pelted with food.

So many expeditions
to learn the history
of this little world:

I watch him grub
in the vegetable patch
and ponder the potato

in its natural state
for the very first time,
or found a settlement

of leaves and sticks,
cleverly protected
by a circle of stones.

But where on earth
did he manage to find
that cigarette end?

Rain and wind.
The day disintegrates.
I obser...Read more of this...
by Raine, Craig


Passage to India

...rising, 
A ceaseless thought, a varied train—Lo, soul! to thee, thy sight, they rise,
The plans, the voyages again, the expeditions: 
Again Vasco de Gama sails forth; 
Again the knowledge gain’d, the mariner’s compass, 
Lands found, and nations born—thou born, America, (a hemisphere unborn,) 
For purpose vast, man’s long probation fill’d,
Thou, rondure of the world, at last accomplish’d. 

6
O, vast Rondure, swimming in space! 
Cover’d all over with visible power and beauty! ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Salut au Monde

...ee the battle-fields of the earth—grass grows upon them, and blossoms and corn; 
I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. 

I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of
 the
 earth. 

I see the places of the sagas;
I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts; 
I see granite boulders and cliffs—I see green meadows and lakes; 
I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors; 
I see them raised high with stones...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Waste Land

...er-dripping song"
is justly celebrated.
360. The following lines were stimulated by the account of one
of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one
of Shackleton's): it was related that the party of explorers,
at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion
that there was one more member than could actually be counted.
367-77. Cf. Hermann Hesse, Blick ins Chaos:
"Schon ist halb Europa, schon ist zumindest der halbe Osten Europas auf
dem
Wege zum...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

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