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Summary

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 - Beauti

Duration: about 2 hours (02:20:11)
Publishing date: 2023-11-11; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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