Famous Journeyed Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Journeyed poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous journeyed poems. These examples illustrate what a famous journeyed poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Eldorado

...Gaily bedight,
 A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
 Had journeyed long,
 Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

 But he grew old--
 This knight so bold--
And o'er his heart a shadow
 Fell as he found
 No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

 And, as his strength
 Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
 "Shadow," said he,
 "Where can it be--
This land of Eldorado?"

 "Over the Mountains
 Of the Moon...Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan


Endymion: Book IV

...regions many a venom'd dart
At random flies; they are the proper home
Of every ill: the man is yet to come
Who hath not journeyed in this native hell.
But few have ever felt how calm and well
Sleep may be had in that deep den of all.
There anguish does not sting; nor pleasure pall:
Woe-hurricanes beat ever at the gate,
Yet all is still within and desolate.
Beset with painful gusts, within ye hear
No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier
The death-watch tick is stifled. Ente...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Eviradnus

...
 And to the ears of Eviradnus one— 
 One word had come which roused him. Well he knew 
 The land which lately he had journeyed through. 
 
 He down the valley went into the inn 
 Where he had left his horse and page, Gasclin. 
 The horse had wanted drink, and lost a shoe; 
 And now, "Be quick!" he said, "with what you do, 
 For business calls me, I must not delay." 
 He strides the saddle and he rides away. 
 
 II. 
 
 EVIRADNUS. 
 
 Eviradnus was growing old ...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Gods

...urely God...

No one.

She went to the Buddha, the Brahma, the Pyramids
and found immense postcards.

No one.

Then she journeyed back to her own house
and the gods of the world were shut in the lavatory.

At last!
she cried out,
and locked the door....Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Henry James in the Heart of the City

....
I love his spiritual sister
because she snatched clarity
from her murky history.

Tormented New Yorkers both,
but she journeyed
to the heart of light--
did he?

She took her friends on one last voyage,
through the isles of Greece
on a yacht chartered with her royalties--
a rich girl proud to be making her own money.

The light of the Middle Sea
was what she sought.
All denizens
of this demonic city caught
between pitch and black
long for the light.

But she found it
in a fe...Read more of this...
by Jong, Erica


Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis

...vapors, 
As of burning woods and prairies, 
For his heart was hot within him, 
Like a living coal his heart was.
So he journeyed westward, westward, 
Left the fleetest deer behind him, 
Left the antelope and bison; 
Crossed the rushing Esconaba, 
Crossed the mighty Mississippi, 
Passed the Mountains of the Prairie, 
Passed the land of Crows and Foxes, 
Passed the dwellings of the Blackfeet, 
Came unto the Rocky Mountains, 
To the kingdom of the West-Wind, 
Where upon the gus...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Hiawathas Lamentation

...e trod, the grasses bent not,
And the fallen leaves of last year
Made no sound beneath his footstep.
Four whole days he journeyed onward
Down the pathway of the dead men;
On the dead-man's strawberry feasted,
Crossed the melancholy river,
On the swinging log he crossed it,
Came unto the Lake of Silver,
In the Stone Canoe was carried
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the land of ghosts and shadows.
On that journey, moving slowly,
Many weary spirits saw he,
Panting under heavy ...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Howl

...ountry seventytwo hours to find out if I had a vision or you had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity,
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded & loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals praying for each other’s salvation and light and breasts, until the soul illuminated its hai...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

Inferno Canto 01

...Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ch? la diritta via era smarrita .

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.


Ahi quanto a dir qual era ? cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura !

Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:


Tant'? a...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto02

...mortale 
secolo and?, e fu sensibilmente . 

You say that he who fathered Sylvius, 
while he was still corruptible, had journeyed 
into the deathless world with his live body. 


Per?, se l'avversario d'ogne male 
cortese i fu, pensando l'alto effetto 
ch'uscir dovea di lui e 'l chi e 'l quale , 

For, if the Enemy of every evil 
was courteous to him, considering 
all he would cause and who and what he was, 


non pare indegno ad omo d'intelletto; 
ch'e' fu de l'alma Roma e d...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Mary - A Ballad

...espair.


III.

Yet chearful and happy, nor distant the day,
Poor Mary the Maniac has been;
The Traveller remembers who journeyed this way
No damsel so lovely, no damsel so gay
As Mary the Maid of the Inn.


IV.

Her chearful address fill'd the guests with delight
As she welcomed them in with a smile:
Her heart was a stranger to childish affright,
And Mary would walk by the Abbey at night
When the wind whistled down the dark aisle.


V.

She loved, and young Richard had settl...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert

Paradise Lost: Book 04

...h a vengeance sent 
From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound. 
Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill 
Satan had journeyed on, pensive and slow; 
But further way found none, so thick entwined, 
As one continued brake, the undergrowth 
Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplexed 
All path of man or beast that passed that way. 
One gate there only was, and that looked east 
On the other side: which when the arch-felon saw, 
Due entrance he disdained; and, in contempt, 
A...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Poverty And Wealth

...rowded years in a single day.
He bought position and name and place, 
And he bought him a wife with a handsome face.
He journeyed over the whole wide world, 
But discontent his heart lay curled
Like a serpent hidden in leaves and moss, 
And life seemed hollow and gold was dross.
He scoffed at woman, and doubted God, 
And died like a beast and went back to the sod.
The son of the labourer tilled the soil, 
And thanked God daily for health and toil.
He wedded for love in his yo...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Runagate Runagate

...earth, whipscarred,
 a summoning, a shining

 Mean to be free

 And this was the way of it, brethren brethren, 
 way we journeyed from Can't to Can. 
 Moon so bright and no place to hide, 
 the cry up and the patterollers riding, 
 hound dogs belling in bladed air.
 And fear starts a-murbling, Never make it, 
 we'll never make it. Hush that now, 
 and she's turned upon us, levelled pistol 
 glinting in the moonlight:
 Dead folks can't jaybird-talk, she says; 
 you keep on goi...Read more of this...
by Hayden, Robert

The Ballad of the Kings Jest

...s at the Kabul court;
And travelled, in hope of honour, far
To the line where the gray-coat squadrons are.
There have I journeyed too -- but I
Saw naught, said naught, and -- did not die!
He harked to rumour, and snatched at a breath
Of `this one knoweth' and `that one saith', --
Legends that ran from mouth to mouth
Of a gray-coat coming, and sack of the South.
These have I also heard -- they pass
With each new spring and the winter grass.

"Hot-foot southward, forgotten of G...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The dolls wooing

...blue-blooded, yet
She really could make no objection!
So soldier and dolly were wedded one day,
And a moment ago, as I journeyed that way,
I'm sure that I heard a wee baby voice say:
"Mamma! mamma!"...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

The General Prologue

...won.
Full often time he had the board begun
Above alle nations in Prusse.
In Lettowe had he reysed,* and in Russe, *journeyed
No Christian man so oft of his degree.
In Grenade at the siege eke had he be
Of Algesir, and ridden in Belmarie. 
At Leyes was he, and at Satalie,
When they were won; and in the Greate Sea
At many a noble army had he be.
At mortal battles had he been fifteen,
And foughten for our faith at Tramissene.
In listes thries, and aye slain his foe.
This...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Lady of the Lake

...ld.
     In dread, in danger, and alone,
     Famished and chilled, through ways unknown,
     Tangled and steep, he journeyed on;
     Till, as a rock's huge point he turned,
     A watch-fire close before him burned.
     ***.

     Beside its embers red and clear
     Basked in his plaid a mountaineer;
     And up he sprung with sword in hand,—
     'Thy name and purpose! Saxon, stand!'
     'A stranger.' 'What dost thou require?'
     'Rest and a guide, and f...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Song of Hiawatha: X

...agic,
At each stride a mile he measured;
Yet the way seemed long before him,
And his heart outran his footsteps;
And he journeyed without resting,
Till he heard the cataract's laughter,
Heard the Falls of Minnehaha
Calling to him through the silence.
"Pleasant is the sound!" he murmured,
"Pleasant is the voice that calls me!"

On the outskirts of the forests,
'Twixt the shadow and the sunshine,
Herds of fallow deer were feeding,
But they saw not Hiawatha;
To his bow be whispe...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Wanderer

...owd,---
Were all delights that made him sing aloud 
For joy to sojourn in a world so fair.

Back of his footsteps as he journeyed fell 
Range after range; ahead blue hills emerged. 
Before him tireless to applaud it surged 
The sweet interminable spectacle.

And like the west behind a sundown sea 
Shone the past joys his memory retraced, 
And bright as the blue east he always faced 
Beckoned the loves and joys that were to be.

From every branch a blossom for his brow 
He gat...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

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