One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Poems about passengers (31 Poems)
The Machine (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field And carries passengers brief rides, Buzzed overhead on the tender blue ...
Bruise blue (Dale Harcombe Poem)
Frail as smoke, she drifts through the crowded train, bringing with her the cold ashes of poverty. Without a word, ...
Observation Car (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
HIS AGE:DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND,MR JOHN WICKES, UNDER THE NAME OFPOSTUMUS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat (T. S. Eliot Poem)
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
Mayakovsky In New York: A Found Poem (Annie Dillard Poem)
New York: You take a train that rips through versts. It feels as if the trains were running over your ...
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poem)
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
ASSIGNMENT (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman So much obsessed with a piece of work devolved upon me and fed up with it, I ...
The Sirens’ Song (William Browne Poems)
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
The Moose (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
Nirvana (Charles Bukowski Poems)
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on ...
The Wreck of the Steamer London (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Mohegan (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...
The Wreck of the Steamer Stella (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
A Summary History of Lord Clive (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
About a hundred and fifty years ago, History relates it happened so, A big ship sailed from the shores of ...
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 ...
An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
Grace Darling (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
Jottings of New York (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold-- Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told-- ...
Saving a Train (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1869, and on the 19th of November, Which the people in Southern Germany will long ...
The Burning of the Ship Kent (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a harrowing ...
The Burning of the Steamer City of Montreal (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
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 ...
The Wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...