Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRAM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humming and creaking, the car down the street Last Line: Made one by the awe that had come to pass. | ||||||||
Humming and creaking, the car down the street Lumbered and lurched through thunderous gloam Bearing us, spent and dumb with the heat, From office and counter and factory home: Sallow-faced clerks, genteel in black; Girls from the laundries, draggled and dank; Ruddy-faced labourers slouching slack; A broken actor, grizzled and lank; A mother with querulous babe on her lap; A schoolboy whistling under his breath; An old man crouched in a dreamless nap; A widow with eyes on the eyes of death; A priest; a sailor with deepsea gaze; A soldier in scarlet with waxed moustache; A drunken trollop in velvet and lace; All silent in that tense dusk ... when a flash Of lightning shivered the sultry gloom: With shattering brattle the whole sky fell About us, and rapt to a dazzling doom We glided on in a timeless spell, Unscathed through deluge and flying fire In a magical chariot of streaming glass, Cut off from our kind and the world's desire, Made one by the awe that had come to pass. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON BREAKFAST by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON FLANNAN ISLE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON FOR G. by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON GERANIUMS by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON LAMENT by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RETREAT by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON RUPERT BROOKE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE GORSE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE ICE by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON |
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