The walker's literary companion

From The Alfoxden Journal / Dorothy Wordsworth

Ask for Nothing / Philip Levine

From Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bread-and-Butter! / John Hollander

By the Fire-Side / Robert Browning

City Night-Piece / Oliver Goldsmith

Clematis Lane / Richard Jefferies

Corsons Inlet / A. R. Ammons

Country Walk / John Dyer

Crowds / Charles Baudelaire

Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara

Encounter / James Joyce

End of March / Elizabeth Bishop

Foot / Alice Meynell

Foot-Prints on the Sea-Shore / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Four Day Walk / Richard Long

Going Out for a Walk / Max Beerbohm

From The Grasmere Journals / Dorothy Wordsworth

Hashish in Marseilles / Walter Benjamin

Hills are Tipped with Sunshine, while I Walk / Christina Rossetti

Hurrahing in Harvest / Gerard Manley Hopkins

I Stepped from Plank to Plank / Emily Dickinson

I Walk'd the other Day / Henry Vaughan

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / William Wordsworth

from Journals / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Journey Out of Essex / John Clare

Journeying by Stream / Hisieh Ling-Yun

La Junta / Simon Ortiz

Last Signal / Thomas Hardy

From Letters / John Keats

Little Ramble / Robert Walser

London / William Blake

[A Long Walk] / Robert Grenier

Looking for Signs / Ruth Stone

From The Maine Woods / Henry David Thoreau

Man of the Crowd / Edgar Allan Poe

From Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens

Mores / John Clare

Morning Walk / Southern Paiute

From The Narrow Road to the Interior / Matsuo Basho

Night Walks / Charles Dickens

Nocturnal Reverie / Anne Finch

Ode 17 / Petrarch

On Going a Journey / William Hazlitt

Ones who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin

Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes / Rainer Maria Rilke

Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury

From Persuasion / Jane Austen

From Phaedrus / Plato

From The Prelude (1805) / William Wordsworth

Regeneration / Henry Vaughan

Resolution and Independence / William Wordsworth

Returning / Wendell Berry

From The Reveries of a Solitary Walker / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Road Not Taken / Robert Frost

Setting Out / Wendell Berry

Song of the Open Road / Walt Whitman

Sotoba Komachi / Kan'ami Kiyotsugu

Step Away from Them / Frank O'Hara

Stepping Westward / Denise Levertov

Stepping Westward / William Wordsworth

Street Haunting / Virginia Woolf

Sudden Walk / Franz Kafka

Sunday Walks in the Suburbs / Charles Reznikoff

Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg

From Swann's Way / Marcel Proust

Tarn / Hugh Walpole

From The Task / William Cowper

There is a Way to Walk on Water / Patiann Rogers

This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London / John Gay

Upper Broadway / Adrienne Rich

Useless Vigil / Gabriela Mistral

Walk / Merle Collins

Walk / Rainer Maria Rilke

Walk / Gary Snyder

Walking / Edward Abbey

Walking / Linda Hogan

Walking / Thomas Traherne

Walking Around / Pablo Neruda

Walking our Bondaries / Audre Lorde

When, to the Attractions of the Busy World / William Wordsworth

Wild Common / D. H. Lawrence

Winter Walk / Henry David Thoreau

With Happiness Stretchd Across the Hills / William Blake

Wood-Pile / Robert Frost

Worn-Out Shoes / Natalia Ginzburg

Worn Path / Eudora Welty

Zone / Guillaume Apollinaire

Afterword: More Literary Companionship for Walkers

Other Anthologies of Walking Literature

Literary and Historical Studies.