Travel Poems Which Haunt you: House on the Hill (Frost's statue), The Listeners by De La Mare (and his trail)

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• I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference.
  • "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

 Robert Frost

Robert Frost statue, Amherst Center, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Photo by Bobby 17543 in Wikipedia article on the poet. Also see quotes in Wikiquote by Robert Frost.

• Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
  They have to take you in.
  • "The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
  • The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.
    • "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923)

American Robert Frost

If I should die, think only this of me

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England.

The House On the Hill

by Edward Arlington Robinson

They are all gone away

The House is shut and still

There is nothing more to say.

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners

BY WALTER DE LA MARE

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,   

   Knocking on the moonlit door;

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses   

   Of the forest’s ferny floor:

And a bird flew up out of the turret,   

   Above the Traveller’s head:

And he smote upon the door again a second time;   

   ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.

...

For he suddenly smote on the door, even   

   Louder, and lifted his head:—

‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,   

   That I kept my word,’ he said.

...

Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,   

   And the sound of iron on stone,

And how the silence surged softly backward,   

   When the plunging hoofs were gone.

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Walter de la Mare lived in England and is featured on the Penge heritage trail in England. In a good year (as things were before Covid-19) an annual festival was held with readings.

Useful Websites

https://www.pengeheritagetrail.org.uk/penge-people/walter-de-la-mare/

About the Author

See poems by Angela on travel in a previous post

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

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Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR

Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.

Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.

Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

 

Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

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