There are 403 Poems about Travels & Journeys
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.1492
By Emma Lazarus
1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard
Fragments: Mrs. Reuben Chandler writes to her husband during a cholera epidemic
By Anne Stevenson
VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster
A Blessing
By James Wright
A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss
A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade
A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt
A Hot Day In Agrigento
By Molly Peacock
A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Lot
By Scott Cairns
from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman
A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali
A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
A Report to an Academy 
By Joel Brouwer
A Second Train Song for Gary 
By Jack Spicer
A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall
A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine
A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski
A Way of Being
By Barbara Guest
AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert
Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen
Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell
Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alcohol
By Franz Wright
Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg
American Sketches
By Donald Justice
An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert
An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi
An Interview 
By Oskar Pastior
Another Insane Devotion 
By Gerald Stern
Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie
Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
By Philip Sidney
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy
At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters
At the Station
By Herbert Morris
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson
Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s
By Eleanor Wilner
Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin
Banjo Dog Variations
By Donald Justice
Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell
Beside the Broad Dordogne 
By Alan Feldman
Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Blues for Dante Alighieri 
By Kim Addonizio
Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray
Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell
By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus
Carlos 
By Theodore Deppe
Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth
Cock 
By Albert Goldbarth
Coda
By Basil Bunting
Come with Me 
By Robert Bly
Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons
Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander
Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman
Crossroads 
By Mary Barnard
Cruising 99
By Garrett Hongo
Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop
Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters
Dejection
By David Baker
Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall
Don Juan: Canto the Second
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal
Driving West in 1970 
By Robert Bly
Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild
East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers
East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton
Eldorado
By Edgar Allan Poe
En la Calle San Sebastián
By MartÃn Espada
England Finally, Like My Mother Always Said We Would
By Alberto RÃos
Ephemera
By Robin Becker
from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt
Etching of the Plague Years 
By Mary Karr
Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale
Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot
Eye on the Scarecrow
By Nathaniel Mackey
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate
Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson
Figures in the Carpets 
By David Schloss
Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor
Flight 
By Linda Bierds
Flight to Limbo 
By John Updike
Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas
For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson
For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Four Postulates
By Michael Anania
Fox Sleep 
By W. S. Merwin
From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren
Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy
Ghana Calls
By W. E. B. Du Bois
Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney
God of Roads
By Yvor Winters
Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert
Grace
By John Logan
Gravelly Run 
By A. R. Ammons
Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall
Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani
Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot
Hearing
By W. S. Merwin
Heaven
By Cathy Song
Hero
By Paul Engle
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
By Robert Browning
Homecoming
By Jay Wright
Hotel Showers of the World
By Roddy Lumsden
How She Went to Ireland
By Thomas Hardy
I Travelled among Unknown Men
By William Wordsworth
If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish
Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle
In a U-Haul North of Damascus 
By David Bottoms
In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch
In Exile
By Emma Lazarus
In Kona, Thinking of the Elements 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 121
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In My Dreams
By Stevie Smith
In Spain
By Thomas Wyatt
In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich
Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan
It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz
Ithaka
By C. P. Cavafy
Itinerary
By James McMichael
Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright
Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Killary Harbor
By Peter Balakian
Kouign Amann 
By Ange Mlinko
Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz
Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley
Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend 
By Jill Osier
Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis
Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr
Lines
By John Ciardi
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth
Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Linnaeus in Lapland
By Lorine Niedecker
Lissadell 
By Wendy Cope
Looking Around 
By Charles Wright
Looking For Each of Us
By Linda Gregg
Lost in the Forest
By Amy Gerstler
Magic 
By Louis Untermeyer
Mapping the Genome 
By Michael Symmons Roberts
Marco Polo at Finisterre 
By Matthew Brenneman
Mary Shelley in Brigantine 
By Stephen Dunn
Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden
Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt
Minuscule Things
By William Matthews
Mosaic
By Linda Pastan
Most Sweet it is
By William Wordsworth
Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes
Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray
New Folk 
By Terrance Hayes
New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman
New Year
By Bei Dao
News
By Thomas Traherne
No One Goes to Paris in August
By Clarence Major
North
By Seamus Heaney
Northern Exposures 
By G. E. Murray
O Carib Isle! 
By Hart Crane
O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare
Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings
Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster
from Omeros
By Derek Walcott
On Antiphon Island
By Nathaniel Mackey
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats
On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I
On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth
On the Road 
By John Updike
Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell
Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy
Otranto
By Barbara Guest
Outside
By Mark Jarman
Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pamet Harbor 
By Gerald Stern
Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück
Parting: 1940 
By John Frederick Nims
Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald
Peach 
By Jennifer Tonge
Pick Me Up
By William Jay Smith
Poem
By Thomas McGrath
Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller
Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Pronouns
By Cole Swensen
Provo
By Mark Rudman
Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service
Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu
Quivira
By Ronald Johnson
Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Recuerdo 
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane
Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth
Rest before you sleep 
By Dionisio D. Martinez
Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate
Return to Rome
By Stanley Moss
River Road
By Herbert Morris
Road Report
By Kurt Brown
Roadblock
By Rachel Hadas
Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden
Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Russell Market 
By Maurya Simon
Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein
Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman
Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell
Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian
Sailing to Byzantium
By William Butler Yeats
Salvation 
By James Kimbrell
San Onofre, California
By Carolyn Forché
Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Santa Fe Trail
By Barbara Guest
Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker
Scrabble with Matthews 
By David Wojahn
Sea-Map
By Hilda Morley
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling
Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Singing School
By Seamus Heaney
Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman
Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson
Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young
Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North
By Elizabeth Hobbs
So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Solar
By Robin Becker
Solo R&B Vocal Underground 
By W. S. Di Piero
Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald
Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Song of the Andoumboulou: 55
By Nathaniel Mackey
Song of the Open Road
By Walt Whitman
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport 
By Averill Curdy
Star
By W. S. Merwin
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania
Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos
The Armada
By Anne Winters
The Avenues 
By David St. John
The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
The Book of Urizen
By William Blake
The Boundary
By Bei Dao
The Bridge of Change
By John Logan
from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane
The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Calm
By John Donne
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson
The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché
The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson
The Constant Voice
By John Koethe
The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart
The Depot
By Anne Winters
The Doors 
By David St. John
The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan
The Duffel Bag 
By David Harsent
The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz
The Errancy
By Jorie Graham
The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper
The Flower Path
By Arthur Sze
The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach
The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore
The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds
The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman
The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue
The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab
The Hitchhikers 
By Diane Wakoski
The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes
The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll
The Iliad
By Alexander Pope
The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell
The Jaunt
By Alfred Corn
The Journey
By Eavan Boland
The Journey
By Yvor Winters
The Journey
By James Wright
The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare
The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling
The Luggage
By Constance Urdang
The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez
The Marchà aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
By Daryl Hine
The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
The Men
By B. H. Fairchild
The Men 
By Pablo Neruda
The Messenger
By Eleanor Wilner
The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop
The Motorcyclists
By James Tate
The Mount
By Léonie Adams
The Naughty Boy
By John Keats
The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Pilgrim
By Sophie Jewett
The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan
The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi
The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound
The Road and the End 
By Carl Sandburg
The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton
The Sévres Road 
By Susan Donnelly
The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold
The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott
The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound
The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell
The Shoes 
By Brent Pallas
The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth
The Simulacra 
By D. Nurkse
The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie
The Snowmass Cycle 
By Stephen Dunn
The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton
The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens
from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper
The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tourist From Syracuse
By Donald Justice
The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song
The Voyage Home 
By Philip Appleman
The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer
The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin
The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin
The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni
Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy
Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke
To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe
To Go to Lvov
By Adam Zagajewski
To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe
To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden
To Myself
By Franz Wright
To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams
To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton
Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville
Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer
Tourist
By Paul Engle
Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel
Tracings
By Michael Anania
Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy
Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford
Trip to Delphi 
By Alice Friman
Two Songs from a Car 
By Ioanna Carlsen
Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski
Unholy Sonnet 13
By Mark Jarman
Up-Hill
By Christina Rossetti
Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali
Vagabonds 
By Arthur Rimbaud
vegas
By Charles Bukowski
Venetian Candy 
By John Updike
Venetian Coda 
By John Koethe
Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn
Voyage
By Samuel Menashe
Voyages
By Hart Crane
Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg
Walking
By Thomas Traherne
Waring
By Robert Browning
Waving Goodbye 
By Gerald Stern
Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish
What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish
Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun
Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang
Willowspout 
By R. T. Smith
XXVIII
By Clarence Major
You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish
[Letter to Gary Bottone] 
By Jack Spicer
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