Songs of Travel and Other Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from the Highlands of Scotland to the Islands of the Pacific.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone)

Genre(s): Lyric

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Alan Mapstone
00:01:35
Play 01 The Vagabond Alan Mapstone
00:02:05
Play 02 Youth and Love Stunning
00:00:55
Play 03 Youth and Love Stunning
00:00:55
Play 04 In dreams, unhappy, I behold you stand Rafief
00:00:48
Play 05 She rested by the Broken Brook Rafief
00:00:43
Play 06 The infinite shining heavens Alan Mapstone
00:00:56
Play 07 Plain as the glistering planets shine Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi
00:01:15
Play 08 To you, let snow and roses Sonia
00:00:57
Play 09 Let beauty awake Alan Mapstone
00:00:58
Play 10 I know not how it is with you mleigh
00:00:54
Play 11 I will make you brooches Stunning
00:01:04
Play 12 We have loved of Yore Sonia
00:01:37
Play 13 Mater Triumphans Stefan Von Blon
00:01:52
Play 14 Bright is the ring of words Alan Mapstone
00:01:05
Play 15 In the highlands Sonia
00:01:23
Play 16 Home no more home for me Alan Mapstone
00:02:26
Play 17 Winter Marie Christian
00:01:01
Play 18 The stormy evening closes now Stefan Von Blon
00:01:36
Play 19 To Dr. Hake Marie Christian
00:01:37
Play 20 To --- Sonia
00:02:19
Play 21 The morning drum call Alan Mapstone
00:00:49
Play 22 I have trod the upward and the downward slope Alan Mapstone
00:00:45
Play 23 He hears with gladdened heart Stunning
00:00:40
Play 24 Farewell, fair day and fading light Sonia
00:01:13
Play 25 If this were Faith Sonia
00:02:04
Play 26 My Wife Alan Mapstone
00:01:04
Play 27 To the Muse Stunning
00:01:05
Play 28 To an Island Princess Alan Mapstone
00:02:49
Play 29 To Kalakaua Larry Wilson
00:01:09
Play 30 To Princess Kaiulani Larry Wilson
00:01:24
Play 31 To Mother Maryanne Algy Pug
00:00:55
Play 32 In Memoriam E. H. Inkell
00:01:08
Play 33 To my Wife Agnes Robert Behr
00:01:55
Play 34 To my Old Familiars Inkell
00:02:08
Play 35 The tropics vanish Algy Pug
00:02:13
Play 36 To S. C. Algy Pug
00:03:05
Play 37 The House of Tembinoka Alan Mapstone
00:08:21
Play 38 The Woodman Algy Pug
00:07:49
Play 39 Tropic Rain Inkell
00:01:30
Play 40 An End of Travel Algy Pug
00:00:50
Play 41 We uncommiserate pass into the night Algy Pug
00:01:12
Play 42 Sing me a song of a lad that is gone Algy Pug
00:01:30
Play 43 To S. R. Crockett Algy Pug
00:01:12
Play 44 Evensong Nancy Müller
00:00:53