by Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)

The Traveller
Language: English 
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po;
Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor
Against the houseless stranger shuts the door;
Or where Campania’s plain forsaken lies,
A weary waste expanding to the skies;
Where’er I roam, whatever realms I see,
My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee,
Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Confirmed with Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79., ed. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


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