Famous Voyager Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Humble-Bee

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
BURLY dozing humble-bee  
Where thou art is clime for me. 
Let them sail for Porto Rique  
Far-off heats through seas to seek; 
I will follow thee alone 5 
Thou animated torrid-zone! 
Zigzag steerer desert cheerer  
Let me chase thy waving lines; 
Keep me nearer me thy hearer  
Singing over shrubs and vines. 10 

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Bound Home to Mount Song

by Wang Wei
 The limpid river, past its bushes 
Running slowly as my chariot, 
Becomes a fellow voyager 
Returning home with the evening birds. 
A ruined city-wall overtops an old ferry, 
Autumn sunset floods the peaks. 
...Far away, beside Mount Song, 
I shall close my door and be at peace....Read more of this...

Now Finale to the Shore

by Walt Whitman
 NOW finale to the shore! 
Now, land and life, finale, and farewell! 
Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;) 
Often enough hast thou adventur’d o’er the seas, 
Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,
Duly again to port, and hawser’s tie, returning: 
—But now obey, thy cherish’d, secret wish, 
Embrace thy friends—leave all in order; 
To port, and...Read more of this...

Untold Want The

by Walt Whitman
 THE untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, 
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find....Read more of this...

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