Songs of Travel and Other Verses is an 1896 book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, it explores the author's perennial themes of travel and adventure. The work gained a new public and popularity when it was set to music in Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.”
No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”
No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”
No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
No. XXVI, My Wife.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”
No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
