Poem or song lyrics for wishing someone off on a journey??

Question

A friend of mine is leaving on a journey through South America (a very very long one). I would like to give him a journal book with some sort of poem or song written in it wishing off and inspiring him for the journey.

does anyone know of any famous poems or song lyrics like that.

i really want it to bee deep and profound.

do you know how i could search for them???

Answer 1

Thomas Moore (1824–1897).

  The Journey Onwards



AS slow our ship her foamy track

  Against the wind was cleaving,

Her trembling pennant still look'd back

  To that dear isle 'twas leaving.

So loth we part from all we love,          5

  From all the links that bind us;

So turn our hearts, as on we rove,

  To those we've left behind us!

  

When, round the bowl, of vanish'd years

  We talk with joyous seeming—   10

With smiles that might as well be tears,

  So faint, so sad their beaming;

While memory brings us back again

  Each early tie that twined us,

Oh, sweet's the cup that circles then   15

  To those we've left behind us!

  

And when, in other climes, we meet

  Some isle or vale enchanting,

Where all looks flowery, wild, and sweet,

  And nought but love is wanting;   20

We think how great had been our bliss

  If Heaven had but assign'd us

To live and die in scenes like this,

  With some we've left behind us!

  

As travellers oft look back at eve   25

  When eastward darkly going,

To gaze upon that light they leave

  Still faint behind them glowing,—

So, when the close of pleasure's day

  To gloom hath near consign'd us,   30

We turn to catch one fading ray

  Of joy that's left behind us.

Answer 2

Under The Milky Way- the Church

Land- Duran Duran

Answer 3

dont stop believing from jourey is a good song

Answer 4

If you can get it online, the poetry of Robert Frost especially the poem "The road not taken" will inspire your friend forever. I read this poem at 15 years old and it totally changed my life on how you see your journey and where to go for yourself. I'm 34 now and still it inspires me to be as adventurous today as it did nearly 20 years ago. An absolute must read for any poet. Easily Robert Frosts greatest poem. 6 stars.

Answer 5

Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp ;)