Frank Little At Calvary (Lola Ridge Poems)
IHe walked under the shadow of the HillWhere men are fed into the firesAnd walled apart…Unarmed and alone,He summoned his ...
Poems about girders (21 Poems)
The Locomotive (Julian Tuwim Poems)
A big locomotive has pulled into town,Heavy, humungus, with sweat rolling down,A plump jumbo olive.Huffing and puffing and panting and ...
The Bridge Builder (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
OF old the Winds came romping down, Oh, wild and free were they!They bent the prairie grasses low And made a place ...
Maypole A La Mode (Jewell Miller Poems)
Construction sets a mighty maypole upCloud-touching tip, base held in granite cup.Instead of romping girls and shouting boys,Damned drilling din ...
Youth (James Wright Poems)
Strange bird,His song remains secret.He worked too hard to read books.He never heard how Sherwood AndersonGot out of it, and ...
Ann Arbor Variations (Frank O Hara Poems)
1Wet heat drifts through the afternoonlike a campus dog, a fraternity ghostwaiting to stay home from football games.The arches are ...
Hello, Willie Shoemaker (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the Chinaman said don't take the hardware and gave me a steak I couldn't cut (except the fat) and there ...
The Seaman’s Hour (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
When the day's trick is over and the running lights are lit,And the rigging fore and aft is trim and ...
Steel Cathedrals (Derek van den Bogaerde Poems)
It seems to me, I spend my life in stations.Going, coming, standing, waiting.Paddington, Darlington, Shrewsbury, York.I know them all most ...
The Song Of The Builder (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I sink my piers to the solid rock, And I send my steel to the sky,And I pile up the ...
Twentieth-Ce (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
We who have seen the city's sentinel-Some iron-colored tower, monumentTo slow encroaching force-our thews are bent Against her girders! With ...
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
Bridge-Guard in the Karroo (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1901 ". . . and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge." District Orders-Lines of Communication, South African ...
Hunted (Paul Eluard Poem)
A few grains of dust more or less On ancient shoulders Locks of weakness on weary foreheads This theatre of ...
Song of the Broad-Axe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
DIRECTIONS/MISDIRECTIONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I sit inside the train of tears The station mellow in shade Unoriginal phrases air-brush the canvas. Puzzling minds I ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
Prayers of Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LAY me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old ...
An Address to the New Tay Bridge (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay, With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array, And ...
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array And your central ...
The Tay Bridge Disaster (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...