Rail Poems

Rail Poems

Una, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Roving, roving, as it seems,
Una lights my ...

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman

1 Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face...

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And...

Song of the Broad-Axe, by Walt Whitman

1 Weapon shapely, naked, wan,
Head from t...

These I Singing in Spring, by Walt Whitman

These I singing in spring collect for lovers,
...

Gareth and Lynette, by Alfred Tennyson

The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
And t...

Merlin and Vivien, by Alfred Tennyson

A storm was coming, but the winds were still, ...

The Palace of Art, by Alfred Tennyson

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house
Wherei...

Pelleas and Ettarre, by Alfred Tennyson

King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap
L...

To a Discarded Steel Rail, by Maxwell Bodenheim

Straight strength pitched into the surliness of...

Yo-Yang Tower, by Du Fu

Long since the fame of Tung-ting Lake I knew.
...

Nocturne In a Minor Key, by Conrad Aiken

I I will say: I walked alone in whistling dark...

The Hammers, by Amy Lowell

I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang!
Bang!
Tap!...

Last Evening, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Night and the sound of distant transport as tro...

Ab Initio--Ad Finem, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Two children stood on a blackened wharf,
Watc...

Our Neighbor, by Eliza Allen Starr

Set it down gently at the altar rail
The faith...

Two Steps from my Garden Rail, by Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Two steps from my garden rail
Sleeps my well b...

Nature's Invitation, by Isaac McLellan

O'er the fair face of Nature let us muse,
And...

Squirrels, by Isaac McLellan

When soft May breezes fan th' awaking woods,
...

The Whippoorwill, by Isaac McLellan

When the glory of sunset fades in the skies
As...

Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!, by John Dryden

Farewell, ungrateful traitor!
Farewell, my ...

The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe

A HINDU FABLE. I It was six men of Indostan
...

Tale of a Dog, by John Godfrey Saxe

PART ONE I "Curse on all curs!" I heard a cyn...

Fight, by Percy MacKaye

The Tale of a Gunner at the Battle of Plattsbur...