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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RAILROADS Matches Found: 484 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "HALLELUJAH, I'M A BUM", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, why don't I work like other men do?" Last Line: And the sawbones will say 'old one-finger's dead' Subject(s): Railroads;wandering & Wanderers;; Railways;trains A BALLAD OF REFRESHMENT, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: The lady stood at the station bar Last Line: (and the bun is old and weary.) Subject(s): Food & Eating; Railroads; Railways; Trains A BOY'S ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train passes every afternoon Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains A CHILD-SAVIOUR (A TRUE STORY), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stood beside the iron road Last Line: Date: november, 1882 Subject(s): Children; Girls; Heroism; Railroads; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines; Railways; Trains A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bed of gravel moving Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A HOBO VOLUNTARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the hobo's life is a roving life Last Line: For the life of a hobo, never to return. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Liberty; Railways; Trains A HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All you / have to lose Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason; Railways; Trains; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A NIGHT-PIECE, OR, MODERN PHILOSOPHY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas when bright cynthia with her silver car Last Line: And next morn pored in plato for more. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Roads; Silence; Travel; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips A PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Words; Vocabulary; Railways; Trains A RAIL ROAD CUTTING NEAR ALEXANDRIA IN 1855, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plump thro' tomb and catacomb Last Line: Alack for miriam's spices! Subject(s): Egypt; Railroads; Railways; Trains A RAILROAD YARD AT NIGHT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Faint forms of giant buildings in the night Last Line: Gleaming of silver underneath the stars. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Traffic; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A RAIN SKETCH, by MARY KATE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I like to feel the long slim train Last Line: Ploughs onward through the rain. Subject(s): Railroads; Rain; Railways; Trains A SISTER ON THE TRACKS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between pond and sheepbarn, by maples and watery birches Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains A SONG FOR MY FELLOWS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My brothers, in this great world of ours Last Line: "or, failing, man-like will die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Brotherhood; Railroads; Railways; Trains A SONG OF LABOUR; DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-WORKERS WITH PICK AND SHOVEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us sing, my toiling brothers, with our rough, rude voice a song Last Line: Labour's mightiest epic rolling through the panting heart of toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains A SONG OF PROGRESS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come away from pick and shovel for another day again Last Line: And the thinking that I help them at my lowly labour here. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains A TRAIN WINDOW, SELS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gride and screech of snorting locomotives Last Line: Who are the lovers there? Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A VERMONT GRINSTONE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our old big grinstone used to stand Last Line: And leaves him only one to turn. Subject(s): Railroads; Stones; Vermont; Wagons; Wheels; Railways; Trains; Granite; Rocks A WESTERN WASTE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Old rails like twin steel ribbons stretch away Last Line: Fair as a farm by some iowan stream. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains A-WORKING ON THE RAILWAY, by ARTHUR H. CLARK Poem Source First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-six Subject(s): Railroads ABOARD! ABOARD!, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how the little towns flare in passing Subject(s): Railroads; Longing; Railways; Trains ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains AETHER, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: On the train home at dusk Last Line: A dream that takes no room %unfolds on this earth Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads AFTER A TRAIN JOURNEY, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: My eyes are full of rivers and trees tonight Last Line: Now I am almost earth and almost whole Subject(s): Railroads; Travel AMERICAN TRAINS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: The sante fe, still the one Last Line: I said when you asked me, 'what is this?' Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States AN ADDRESS TO THE NEW TAY BRIDGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery tay Last Line: Near by dundee and the bonnie magdalen green. Variant Title(s): The Railway Bridge Of The Silver Tay Subject(s): Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips AN EJACULATION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius, cried the commuter Last Line: For catching trains. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Genius; Railroads; Railways; Trains AN EVENING TRAIN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whistles past hacked-down fields of corn Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains AND AS FOR MAN, by LOREN EISELEY Poem Source First Line: In the railroad yards, leaving the city of darkness Last Line: They will start to climb then, they will have had enough of waiting, and as for man, he will not be Subject(s): Farewell; New York City; Railroads AND THE TRAINS GO ON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood at the back door Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains AND THE TRAINS GO ON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood at the back door Last Line: And our tears mean nothing Subject(s): Railroads ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sprang for the side-holts - my gripsack and I Last Line: Was no more than its due. 'twas the lecture they meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ANOTHER TRIP, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already in the fields of jaen Last Line: With myself, traveling alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Railroads; Spain; Travel ANSWER TO WORDSWORTH'S SONNET AGAINST KENDAL AND BOWNESS RAILWAY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour may come, nay must in these our days Last Line: Nor lose one dream for all their homely gain. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Railways; Trains ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ Poem Text First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips AT DAYBREAK, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the train window at daybreak Last Line: The train picking up speed Subject(s): Railroads; Cities; Desolation AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AT FURNESS ABBEY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well have yon railway labourers to this ground Last Line: While thus these simple-hearted men are moved? Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Railroads; Abbey Of St. Mary; Railways; Trains AT MIDNIGHT OR SO, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The train whistles past my window Last Line: Or malice, what do you %make of this? And of this? Subject(s): Life; Railroads AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topeka ... Junction city Subject(s): Museums; Railroads; Art Gallerys; Railways; Trains AT THE TRAIN MUSEUM, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Topeka ... Junction city Last Line: And only half awake Subject(s): Museums; Railroads BALLAD OF OUR DEAR LADY OF THE RAILWAY CARRIAGE, by RENE SCHICKELE Poem Text First Line: A train stops, that is not bound whither you would fare Last Line: A train moves on, that is not bound whither you must fare. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains BALLAD: BETWEEN THE BOXCARS (1923), by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the name of the one who fell Last Line: To that clobber, and slobber, and scream, between the boxcars? Subject(s): Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering BEAUTIFUL TRAIN, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Argentina in one swing of the bell skirt Last Line: So firm, so burdened, on such light gay feet Subject(s): Manchuria; Railroads BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BEING FROM ST. LOUIS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the nickel-gray bridges Last Line: Its name on our knees. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Cities; Railroads; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Urban Life; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips BEULAH RAILWAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God a great railway to heaven has planned Last Line: Our train is coming now and you must decide Subject(s): Heaven; Railroads BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On a summer morning in the month of may Last Line: Where they boiled in oil the inventor of toil, %in the big rock candy mountains Subject(s): Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering BIG ROCK-CANDY MOUNTAIN, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land was theirs after we were the land's Last Line: Out of a rifled and abandoned land Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads BILL'S LENGTH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to bill's length,' said my mate to me Last Line: "we must signal to bill as we journey down." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Brothers; Death; Railroads; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Railways; Trains BLACKBERRY LIGHT: (THE TIE), by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Note old chestnut tie in foreground' Last Line: But we do, even as we remember nothing, %as we stare, as we may or may not want to Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Railroads; Ruins BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel BOB CRUIKSHANKS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is what bob cruikshanks said Last Line: As he leant against the driving-wheel. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Railroads; Railways; Trains BODY AND MIND, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: Body and mind, we used to think, were two Last Line: Twists out of its past; mind lures it west %beyond the finished fact which is dubuque Subject(s): Railroads BONES TO HA NOI, by FREDERICK J. MARCHANT Poem Source First Line: He is wary in the train station Last Line: He loves, carries, and cannot smell Subject(s): Death; Railroads BOX-CAR LETTERS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone on the hill where the sun goes down Last Line: A poor philosopher be! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Railroads; Towns; Railways; Trains BOXCAR POEM, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boxcars drift by Last Line: Field, a crow %on either shoulder Subject(s): Railroads BOY'S ANSWER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train passes every afternoon Last Line: He does it again and still again %to become something without a name Subject(s): Children; Railroads BRIDGE: 2. POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER: THE RIVER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stick your patent name on a signboard Last Line: Meeting the gulf, hosannas silently below Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Railroads BURYING GROUND BY THE TIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders: Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Railroads; Labor & Laborers; Railways; Trains; Work; Workers CABOOSE THOUGHTS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's going to come out all right-do you know? Last Line: They get along -- and we'll get along. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CALL BOY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Git out o' bed, you rascals Last Line: Actin' datway Subject(s): Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on the faces. On the knotted rocks Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains CAMPAIGN: SUN ON THE FACES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on the faces. On the knotted rocks Last Line: Will go to washington Subject(s): Railroads CAMPAIGN: THE YOUNG MEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surface shine, the inner steel of track Last Line: In my net of growth, my words are unreal to me Subject(s): Railroads CASEY JONES, by T. LAWRENCE SEIBERT Poem Source First Line: Come all ye rounders, for I want you to hear Last Line: Belong to the life of a railroad man Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads CASEY JONES (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all you rounders if you want to hear Last Line: Took his farewell journey to the promised land Subject(s): Labor Unions;railroads;strikes; Railways;trains;labor Disputes;lockouts CASEY JONES (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you rounders if you want to hear Last Line: And you've got another papa on that salt lake line Subject(s): Labor Unions; Railroads; Strikes CESARE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sorry town after another passed Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips CESARE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sorry town after another passed Last Line: What was to come? It was all there in the rain Subject(s): Railroads; Travel CHILDREN'S TRAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the train approaches the tunnel, the kids Last Line: Religious as they are pulled %into the frightening brilliance of the world Subject(s): Children; Railroads CITY AND VILLAGE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din Last Line: Or in my walks at night-time when the village is at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument); Cities; Railroads; Villages; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west Last Line: A switch with red eyes wipes its mouth with a sleeve Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.) CITY NIGHTS: 1. IN THE TRAIN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train through the night of the town Last Line: The dazzling vista of streets! Subject(s): Cities; Railroads; Urban Life; Railways; Trains CLOSING DOWN THE RAILROAD, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: The rails and sleepers of the narrow gauge railroad are long gone Last Line: Flamboyant signal flag, now in a closet and unused for many years Subject(s): Railroads COAL TRAIN, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Three times a night it woke you Last Line: Your bed was a pool of night Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Railroads COASTAL MOUNTAIN TRAIN, by ROBERT FRANKLIN GISH Poem Source First Line: Bishop's peak. %to the west. Stalwart. Stationary Last Line: One to the way to %the temporary tinsel town of hollywood Subject(s): Railroads; West (u.s.) COMMUTER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I traveled Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Railways; Trains COMMUTER, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I traveled Last Line: Into the dark station Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Last Line: And rides back to shave again Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States COMMUTERS, by ADELE M. RYERSON Poem Text First Line: They faintly smile or weakly grin Last Line: "of knowing they have to return on the ""5:15"" train." Subject(s): Commuters; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips COUPLE IN THE OBSERVATION CAR ON THE TRAIN TO BANFF, by RUTH JEAN SZUCS Poem Source First Line: Outside the wrap around windows Last Line: The back pines become a mountain of shadows Subject(s): Railroads; Relationships CROSSING, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop -- look -- listen Last Line: Boxcar, %caboose! Subject(s): Railroads DARK DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Whirring wheels that grind beneath me Last Line: Black the night or bright the day. Subject(s): Prayer; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DARTMOOR, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I crossed the furze-grown table-land Last Line: Call down the hiveless swarms. Subject(s): Dartmoor, England; Railroads; Smoke; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DAY COACH, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tickets please Last Line: He stumbled off with his burden of stars and hills. Subject(s): Railroads; Stations Of The Cross; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips DELIRIUM TREMENS: TRAIN FROM GLASGOW TO EDINBURGH, by JENNIFER FOOTMAN Poem Source First Line: My sister - the one who was an alcoholic - had a vision of angels: three Last Line: There was nothing wrong with her being able to see right into his head Subject(s): Railroads; Travel DEPARTURE, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is standing on a railroad platform Last Line: The train is waiting with its breath of ashes Subject(s): Farewell; Fathers; Railroads DESTITUTE PERU, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pullmaned to peoria. Was Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains DOG-GOD, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the railroad tracks at the bottom of summer Last Line: To master what is beautiful and guileless and mute Subject(s): Girls; Railroads; Summer DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN' ..., by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 4 a.M. Freight comes pounding and shaking through the fall night Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains DON'T YOU HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOWIN' ..., by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 4 a.M. Freight comes pounding and shaking through the fall night Last Line: To share a vision with you and find I'm dreaming Subject(s): Railroads DR. FELL AND POINTS WEST, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your train leaves at eleven-forty-five and it is now but eleven thirty-nine Last Line: But you also discover that your porter has efficiently managed to get your bag on it Subject(s): Railroads DREAM OF TRAINS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long ago they raced Last Line: How lyrical the curves Subject(s): Railroads DREAM OF TRAINS [SUENOS DE TRENES], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trains were dreaming Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Railroads DRILL, YE TARRIERS, DRILL, by THOMAS CASEY Poem Source First Line: Ev'ry morning at seven o'clock Last Line: And drill, ye tarriers, drill! Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads DUNCAN WEIR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back on the wrong line, that was all Last Line: Came back on the wrong line and kill'd our mate. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains DUTY'S REWARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was an english summer day Last Line: The train had not touched a hair Subject(s): Railroads;summer; Railways;trains EARLY MORNING WEATHER, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The rain makes me conjure a lover Last Line: Jubilant in wet edge light Subject(s): Commuters; Love; Railroads; Romance; Travel ELEGY WITH TRAINS (1), by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: My friend loved the story of the two men Last Line: Waiting, the whole unspared naked choir Subject(s): Friendship; Railroads; Sickness ELEGY; IN MEMORY, HAROLD HERNDON, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I expected him to look dead in the casket Last Line: By the heaviest star in the firmament Subject(s): Railroads EPITAPH FOR THOMAS SCAIFE, A RAILWAY ENGINEER, D. 1822, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies one who strove to equal time Last Line: Then with assembled worlds in glory join, %and sing - 'the hand that made us is divine' Subject(s): Railroads EVENING SONG, by SHERWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Back of chicago the open fields Last Line: Always a song -- %waiting to sing Subject(s): Railroads; Singing And Singers EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads; Railways; Trains EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Last Line: Rocks and bounces onward through sleeping fields, %our unknown stillness %holding level as water sea Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads EVENING TRAINS, by MARY TRUE AYER Poem Text First Line: Through shadowy trees in brilliant flight Last Line: Weird torches flaming, racing there. Subject(s): Evening; Railroads; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains EXPRESS, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first powerful, plain manifesto Last Line: Wrapt in her music no bird song, no, nor bough %breaking with honey buds, shall ever equal Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Railroads FINIS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swart smoke geni with his heart aglow Last Line: Of him who comes behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains FINNIGIN TO FLANNIGAN, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Superintendent wuz flannigan Last Line: "gone ag'in -- finnigin." Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains FLOWER-FED BUFFALOES OF THE SPRING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the pawnees, lying low %lying low Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Americans; Buffaloes; Railroads; Social Protest; United States FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bed of gravel moving Last Line: When I opened my mouth to the rich Subject(s): Poverty; Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Last Line: Whatever's driving those flocks %and drove the b & m freights into air Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads FOR ESTHER, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the back it looks like a porch Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains FOR ESTHER, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the back it looks like a porch Last Line: To tell me, out of the body, out of the body travel Subject(s): Railroads FOREIGN WOMAN BOARDING A TRAIN, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: A woman lifts her child Last Line: Into her yellow pleats, %leaf after dark leaf Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Railroads FREEDOM TRAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read in the papers about the / freedom train Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Railways; Trains FREEDOM TRAIN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read in the papers about the %freedom train Last Line: Thank god-a-mighty! Here's the %freedom train! %get on board our freedom train! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago Subject(s): Railroads; Time; Railways; Trains FREIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call awe, then, what you will, long long ago Last Line: Far from the misty fens of yesterday Subject(s): Railroads; Time FREIGHT CARS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once, taking a train into chicago Subject(s): Bodies; Railroads; Railways; Trains FREIGHT CARS, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, taking a train into chicago Last Line: Come back, call home, we need you Subject(s): Bodies; Railroads FREIGHT TRAIN, FREIGHT TRAIN, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: All freight, the sudden trains that uncouple my passage home Last Line: Only these cold rains can bring, ignorant, dreaming of trains Subject(s): Railroads FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: The iron thunder of freight trains fills my bedroom at Subject(s): Railroads FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the iowa bluff Subject(s): Railroads FREIGHT TRAINS, by ATTILA JOZSEF Poem Source First Line: Freight trains are pulling in Last Line: Could you keep watch %through that whole night at well? Subject(s): Hungary - Communist Regime; Railroads FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 3. BURYING GROUND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders Last Line: And the trains going over us here in the hollows Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Burying Ground By The Ties Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 3. BURYING GROUND, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Burying Ground By The Tie Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious in the light of the early sun the housatonic Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious in the light of the early sun the housatonic Last Line: Is the grave-scarred hillside. %as if after all, the earth might know what it is about Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States FROM THE TRAIN, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: As the train is almost entering glasgow station Last Line: Only to wear their self created crowns %among this littered acreage of grey ash Subject(s): Railroads FROM THE TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing Subject(s): Railroads GALWAY TRAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the dublin station, %the high rise and fall orf arms Last Line: Corners of the page folding in Subject(s): Galway, Ireland; Railroads GET-AWAY, SELS., by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning when I was six I became my father's accomplice Last Line: In its locked berths the sleepers are soaring like arrows Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads GETTING THERE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far is it? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains GETTING THERE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far is it? Last Line: The train rolled in that night Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Railroads GOD SHED HIS GRACE, by PHILIP STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: I struggled to read homer in translation Last Line: But faintly, I could hear a woman humming Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Religion GOING HOME (BURLINGTON ROUTE), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How smoothly the trains run beyond the missouri Last Line: They run rejoicing, %as if they, too, were going home Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroads GOOD TO EAT, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: We travel north to the edge of a continent Last Line: Later, we make a bed like deer in brush %and find the fields of our arms Subject(s): Railroads; Sea GOODS TRAIN AT NIGHT, by KENNETH H. ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: The station is empty and desolate Last Line: A dull little grief for humanity. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains GOSPEL TRAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The gospel train is moving Last Line: With all the heavenly army %on that celestial shore Subject(s): Heaven; Railroads GRAFFITI, by PHILIP R. ST. CLAIR Poem Source First Line: Meant to be seen from a moving train, these starbursts on urban landscapes Last Line: On our brief aliases, order the rest of our lives Subject(s): Graffiti; Railroads GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Pastoral Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips GRAZING LOCOMOTIVES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huge upon the hazy plain Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Pastora Subject(s): Railroads; Travel GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY SHEFFIELD VICTORIA TO BANBURY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unmitigated england %came swinging down the line Last Line: And we leave the old great central line %for banbury and buns Subject(s): Railroads GREAT NORTHERN, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: What is it about a great northern boxcar Last Line: Trains, the beautiful, goddamn trains Subject(s): Railroads HAT ANGEL, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: What could she say? Little money Last Line: And train: pull her, pull her, pull her Subject(s): Railroads HE DREAMS A BLUE DRESS, by JOHANNAH RACZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes this train does not stop in amsterdam and does not stop in Last Line: Returning with a bag of fruit, I don't remember what kind, just his mouth Subject(s): Railroads; Relationships HOLDING THE SKY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw a town by the track in colorado Last Line: Those dark mountains have never wavered Subject(s): Railroads HOLIDAY AT HOME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to this century of travel Last Line: He said, o light-struck evening Variant Title(s): Poem For A Holiday At Hom Subject(s): Railroads; Travel HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De railroad bridge's / a sad song in de air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Railways; Trains HOMESICK BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De railroad bridge's %a sad song in de air Last Line: To keep from cryin' %I opens ma mouth an' laughs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Homesickness; Railroads HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A train was rushing along one day Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains HUNDRED BOLTS OF SATIN, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All you %have to lose Last Line: Specialized %more than %you imagined Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Reason I AM GERMAN: LEAK, by GARY DUEHR Poem Source First Line: Still, when train windows flash past the river's Last Line: When what's important lies there untalked about, numb Subject(s): History; Railroads; Windows I'VE BEEN WORKIN' ON THE RAILROAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "dinah, blow your horn" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;railroads; Railways;trains IMAGES: 3, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between cordova and seville Last Line: Through their cigar-stench, in the dining-car. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Poverty; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips IN A TRAIN, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: At times, almost everyone talks Last Line: The citizens bolted them, to the last crumb, %and perished from the shock of nourishment Subject(s): Conversation; Railroads IN A WAITING-ROOM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a morning sick as the day of doom Last Line: Had spread a glory through the gloom. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs; Railways; Trains IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Last Line: To the modest places which contain our lives Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs IN THE DEEP MIDNIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clanging, ever clanging Last Line: All want that was is peace ... All clanging rest! Subject(s): Bells; Life; Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains IN THE ENGINE-SHED, by WILLIAM WILKINS Poem Text First Line: Through air made heavy with vapors murk Last Line: We're going out with the express. Subject(s): England; Railroads; Tragedy; English; Railways; Trains IN THE PINES, by WILLIAM SMITH MONROE Poem Source First Line: The longest train I ever saw Last Line: You caused me to leave my home Subject(s): Railroads IN THE SMOKING-CAR, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyelids meet. He'll catch a little nap Last Line: Failure, the longed-for valley, takes him in Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IN THE SMOKING-CAR, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyelids meet. He'll catch a little nap Last Line: Failure, the longed-for valley, takes him in Subject(s): Railroads IN THE TRAIN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly from a wayside station Last Line: Her, he loves the heart of england? Subject(s): England; Railroads; English; Railways; Trains IN THE TRAIN, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the window I see a dozen great stars, burning bright Last Line: Shall the white stars wheel in their reverie. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains IN THE TRAIN, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jammed standing in the Last Line: Aching guilt on theirs Subject(s): Germany; Railroads IN THE TRAIN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fields beneath a quilt of snow Last Line: And in my heart a timid star. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IN THE VANGUARD, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Last Line: Down to ourselves, my brothers, working with the spade and pick! Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains IN TOWN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there's a willow budding Last Line: When's the next train out of town? Subject(s): Country Life; Railroads; Towns; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips INFINITE PERILS OF PAULINE, by PEG CARLSON LAUBER Poem Source First Line: Forever tied to the santa fe track Last Line: Train, the never ending story of pain that some of us, %only some of us know Subject(s): Railroads INSCRIPTION FOR WORKMEN .. LANCASTER-CARLISLE RAILWAY (1845), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Like crowded forests trees we stand %and some are marked to fall Last Line: No human power our life secure %and save us from the tomb Subject(s): Railroads INVENTORY OF THINGS LOST, by EDWARD SCHELB Poem Source First Line: An inventory of things lost on the train Last Line: Standing at the station before our journey home Subject(s): Loss; Railroads IRIS; VIVIAN ST. JOHN (1891-1974), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train inside this iris Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IRIS; VIVIAN ST. JOHN (1891-1974), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train inside this iris Last Line: Home %& you remain Subject(s): Railroads JERSEY TRANSIT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That black woman with the extraordinary earrings Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Social Commentaries; Railways; Trains JIM DALLEY, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you knew dalley that used to drive Last Line: Dalley lay over the levers dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains JIM'S WHISTLE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, the railway wasn't a fitting place Last Line: Were with me, and I were talking to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Deafness; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains JOHN HENRY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When john henry was a little babe Last Line: And a nine-pound hammer in my hand Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads JOHN HENRY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John henry was a li'l baby, un-huh Last Line: Lawd, lawd, john henry, I've been true to you Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads JOURNEY BY RAILROAD, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I was on an express with no stops scheduled Last Line: And look: how the tracks shine up ahead %let's go Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Railroads; Restaurants LACKAWANNA, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possibly a child is not damaged immediately Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains LACKAWANNA, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possibly a child is not damaged immediately Last Line: Rubs across the brain, making it %do what it can, sing Subject(s): Railroads LAST TRAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There may have been a boy Last Line: High above the dreamlike shapes of clouds Subject(s): Railroads LAST TRAINS, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: Soon the last trains will be backed Last Line: To graze into rust Subject(s): Railroads LATE TRAIN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few couples walking off into the dark Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains LATE TRAIN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few couples walking off into the dark Last Line: While I stretched my neck to hear the tick Subject(s): Railroads LET THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: In this year of executioners' song Last Line: Who is riding %that train tonight? Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads LIMITED, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation Last Line: "I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: ""omaha." Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips LITTLE BLACK TRAIN IS A-COMIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God tole hezykiah Last Line: The train rolled in that night Subject(s): Death; Railroads LOCOMOTIVES, by MARY POLLARD TYNES Poem Text First Line: Like wounded giants whom time and age have stripped Last Line: Man, too, grows young, touched by his maker's hand. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads LONG TRACK BLUES, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went down to the yards Last Line: Shine down on that babe o' mine Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads LOOKING AT NEW-FALLEN SNOW FROM A TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has covered the next line of tracks Subject(s): Railroads; Snow; Railways; Trains LOOKING AT NEW-FALLEN SNOW FROM A TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has covered the next line of tracks Last Line: Each blade of grass is a voice. %the sword by his side breaks into flame Subject(s): Railroads; Snow LOW-LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A railroad and a river and a road Last Line: Of the railroad and the river and the road Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; War LUCIFER IN THE TRAIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding the black express from heaven to hell Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains LUCIFER IN THE TRAIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding the black express from heaven to hell Last Line: After our weary transit, find us rest Subject(s): Railroads LUNCH IN A JIM CROW CAR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get out the lunch-box of your dreams Last Line: And, like an atom bomb, bursts apart Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Jim Crow Ca Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Railroads LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 1. THE SCORNED TOWN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The green fields waver, break a space Last Line: A phantom never seen! Subject(s): Fields; Men; Railroads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Railways; Trains LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 2. THE CANYON, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The sky withdraws, the cutting narrows Last Line: Plunges the train at set of sun. Subject(s): Canyons; Evening; Men; Railroads; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 3. THE SLEEPING-CAR, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The land is silent, and the moon Last Line: The heart's assumptions and its pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Railroads; Silence; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MAGIC TOURS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I hear the far-off whistle of a train Last Line: Because a train has whistled on the track. Subject(s): Railroads; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MECHANOPHILUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now first we stand and understand Last Line: Heaven over heaven expands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MELODIC TRAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with scarlet enameled fingernails Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MELODIC TRAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with scarlet enameled fingernails Last Line: And we had focused back on the furniture of the air Subject(s): Railroads METRO, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: There are platforms platforms all over the earth Last Line: They come from one planet, one planet, one. %slappity-slap. Over and out Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Commuters; Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads; Travel METROPOLITAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows furry, grunts with sleep Last Line: Strange threads to hold time fast. Subject(s): Memory; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, by MARGARET W. RITCHIE Poem Text First Line: The whistles blew Last Line: The shattered walls of night closed in! Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy Last Line: But are not of? Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, by LEADBELLY Poem Source First Line: Well, you wake up in the morning, hear the ding dong ding Last Line: If you want to come an' see us, you'll have to ride the rods Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Railroads MORNING EXPRESS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the windswept platform, pinched and white Last Line: Who sped them stand to wave a last farewell. Subject(s): Railroads; Soldiers' Writings; Railways; Trains MOVE UPWARD, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, in heaven's name, let us move upward still Last Line: "lo! At last we are free from the brute!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): God; Railroads; Railways; Trains MY SOUTH: 4. ON THE TRAIN, HEADING NORTH THROUGH FLORIDA ..., by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight or after, and the little lights Subject(s): Railroads; Southern States; Railways; Trains; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 4. ON THE TRAIN, HEADING NORTH THROUGH FLORIDA ..., by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight or after, and the little lights Last Line: And the great wheels smash and pound beneath our feet Subject(s): Railroads; Southern States MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads; Railways; Trains MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long Last Line: The mystery train is sixteen coaches long. %the whistle howls, the wheels click along Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads NEW JERSEY TRANSIT, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rusted up industrial natures you spy Subject(s): Railroads; New Jersey; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NEXT DAY; IN THE TRAIN, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees flit by, the hasty bank Last Line: Your kisses in my hair... Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains NIGHT COACH, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: From the window of a train Last Line: The tossing sleepers moan; %nothing answers back Subject(s): Railroads NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctual to the midnight - lurch, ruck and chime Last Line: From kalamazoo to the junction Subject(s): Michigan; Railroads; Railways; Trains NIGHT FREIGHT, MICHIGAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctual to the midnight - lurch, ruck and chime Last Line: From kalamazoo to the junction Subject(s): Michigan; Railroads NIGHT FROGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and find myself in the woods, far from the castle Last Line: Night frogs give out the croak of the planet turning Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains NIGHT FROGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and find myself in the woods, far from the castle Last Line: And forth, looking toward the old landing. %night frogs give out the croak of the planet turning Subject(s): Railroads NIGHT FROM A FELLMAN WINDOW, by SIDNEY DRAKE Poem Text First Line: My quivering square of glass Last Line: And, all the night, the stars! Subject(s): Railroads; Stars; Railways; Trains NIGHT IN A SUBWAY STATION, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: The train was late. He sat among the crowds Last Line: He couldn't use the things. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Smoking; Subways; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the train bears west Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NIGHT JOURNEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as the train bears west Last Line: I stay up half the night %to see the land I love Subject(s): Railroads; Travel NIGHT TRAIN, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the dim frozen fields of night Last Line: I must be sometime taking Subject(s): Railroads NIGHT TRAIN, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: Our eastern window finds the moon Last Line: A weird awareness that I too %am altered by some alchemy Subject(s): Railroads NIGHT-TRAIN, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: He stirs before dawn, tucks a lantern in his pack Last Line: It sheds like a skin and slithers on tracks of glass Subject(s): Night; Railroads NIGHTTRAINS, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I blow open green bottles Last Line: Coming from flat-bed bones of the funky funky %nighttrains Subject(s): Racism; Railroads NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight Last Line: Blinking and defecating Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument NORTH CORRIDOR, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Living along the path Last Line: Behind the engine's sudden lurch Subject(s): Railroads NORTH PHILADELPHIA, TRENTON, AND NEW YORK, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Thin steel in paired lines, forever mated, cuts Last Line: The tunnel: you are gone, %and the bright winter sky as from a tube of indigo is squeezed away Subject(s): Railroads NORTH TO MILWAUKEE, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Manservants on the last trains Last Line: The phlegm of last rites %stains the sleeves of the survivors Subject(s): Railroads NOTE ON THE L & N, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Bracketed by a diesel switcher and five Last Line: Stride to the scarpyard, and the ironmonger's field Subject(s): Railroads NOTTMAN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was nottman waving at me Last Line: "of red, nottman always shut off the steam." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Variant Title(s): How Little Tom Was Saved Subject(s): Good Samaritan; Railroads; Railways; Trains NUDES, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Manet degas in a book Last Line: Nude room I'm in the middle of Subject(s): Railroads; Travel NURSING MOTHER ON THE DORCHESTER-HARVARD TRAIN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to leave the south end if only for a day. Good to trust where Last Line: Rocking of the train? Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Roxbury, Massachusetts; Subways; Travel O FRERES HUMAINS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rubble railroad Last Line: Return them full %with love to share Variant Title(s): Freedom's Ahea Subject(s): Railroads OBSERVATION CAR, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography First Line: To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains OBSERVATION CAR, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket Last Line: But something went wrong with the plan: I am still on the train Subject(s): Railroads OLD TRIP BY DREAM TRAIN, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Engine and tender, old loaf-shaped pullman Last Line: On old shoes, and call that warehouse %of sheeted furniture home? Subject(s): Railroads OLD WYLIE'S STONE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You want to see wylie's stone - look here Last Line: Growing round it. We planted them there last year. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Graves; Railroads; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains ON MY FOURTEENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY I RIDE ON TRAINS, by CORNELIA VEENENDAAL Poem Source First Line: The one-coach penn central is bound Last Line: The ceiling was frescoed %in olive and silver Subject(s): Books; Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Railroads ON RETURNING TO DETROIT, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the plum snow, the train's blond smoke Last Line: Lowers the awnings over the shop stalls of fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Railroads; Railways; Trains ON RETURNING TO DETROIT, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the plum snow, the train's blond smoke Last Line: Lowers the awnings over the shop stalls of fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Railroads ON THE ENGINE AGAIN, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more on the mighty engine, boys Last Line: And that my fellows are gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE ENGINE BY NIGHT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the engine in the night-time, with the darkness all around Last Line: I grew prouder of my labour and my little gift of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains ON THE HEART'S BEGINNING TO CLOUD THE MIND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something I saw or thought I saw Last Line: Far into the lives of other folk Subject(s): Marriage; Railroads ON THE NIGHT EXPRESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Click-clack, click-clack, shouts the trampled track Last Line: But the cities their scenery. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is then no nook of english ground secure Last Line: And constant voice, protest against the wrong. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGES (TO W.M.C.), by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girders of iron; bridges wrought of steel Last Line: The onrush—passed—and all was night again. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains ON THE RAILWAY PLATFORM, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rewarded porters opening their smiles Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE RAILWAY PLATFORM, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rewarded porters opening their smiles Last Line: And take from strangers their unmeant kisses Subject(s): Railroads ON THE ROAD, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips ONE RADIANT MORNING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a smile breaking over teeth Last Line: A drop could change everything. Subject(s): Girls; Lust; Railroads; Youth; Railways; Trains ONE TRAIN MAY HIDE ANOTHER, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In a poem, one line may hide another line Subject(s): Kenya; Railroads; Railways; Trains ONE TRAIN MAY HIDE ANOTHER, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a poem, one line may hide another line Last Line: To have waited at least a moment to see what was already there Subject(s): Kenya; Railroads ORIENT EXPRESS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One looks from the train Last Line: Behind everything there is always %the unknown unwanted life Subject(s): Railroads OUT OF METROPOLIS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Film Noir: Train Trip Out Of Metropolis Subject(s): City & Town Life; Travel; Railroads; Journeys; Trips; Railways; Trains OUTSIDE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sprawled body of the derailed great northern freight car Last Line: And sick for home Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Homesickness; Railroads; Railways; Trains OUTSIDE FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the sprawled body of the derailed great northern freight car Last Line: And sick for home Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Homesickness; Railroads OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men with picked voices chant the names Last Line: The dance is sure. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY (CHANTY) (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, in the eighteen hundred and forty-one Variant Title(s): Poor Paddy Works On The Railwa Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads PASSENGER, by KALEEM OMAR Poem Source First Line: He stuffs fish out of a paper into his mouth Last Line: Give generously. The royal society for the blind Subject(s): Muslims; Railroads PENN CENTRAL STATION AT BEACON, N.Y., by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: An immense room as quiet Last Line: Manhattan manhattan manhattan manhattan Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Railroads PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pennsylvania station in new york Last Line: To glorify the earth - and you - and me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads PERFECT TIMING, by CY RICHIN Poem Source First Line: A train and rushing car connected Last Line: Note the train arrived on schedule Subject(s): Railroads; Time PHOTO OF MY FATHER IN A SNOWBOUND TRAIN, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that his name has turned to elegy Last Line: Lost to this minnesota january, %where his name has turned to snow, to elegy Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads PLUMES OF SMOKE AND STEAM, by AMY MARIE HEFNER Poem Text First Line: White plumes waving Last Line: What a picture to behold! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains POETIC LAMENTATION INSUFFICIENCY OF STEAM LOCOMOTION LAKE DISTRICT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright summer spreads his various hue Last Line: By man's completing hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Lake District, England; Railroads; Railways; Trains PORTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must say %yes, sir Last Line: Gimme yo' shoes %to shine. %yes, sir! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Railroads PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS; C.P.R. 'NO. 1, WESTBOUND', by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I swing to the sunset land Last Line: That open alone to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Commuters; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS; C.P.R. 'NO. 2, EASTBOUND', by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I swing to the land of the morn Last Line: For I am the homeward-bound. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains PRIDE'S CROSSING, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the railroad meets the sea Subject(s): Railroads; Sea; Togetherness; Railways; Trains; Ocean PROJECT FOR FREIGHT TRAINS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at crossings and waiting for freights to pass, we have all noticed Last Line: See who can provide the best set of colors and words for the next time Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Railroads PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To share the passion of a just disdain Subject(s): Greed; Nature; Railroads RAIL, by ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Snow on the coal Last Line: Yet never defeated %rail Subject(s): Railroads RAILROAD BILL (2), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Railroad bill, railroad bill Last Line: Well it's ride, ride, ride Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Railroads RAILROAD BILL, A CONJURE MAN; A HOODOO SUITE, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Railroad bill, a conjure man Last Line: Railroad bill was free Subject(s): African Americans; Railroads RAILROAD BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Every time you hear me sing this song Last Line: But when a man's in trouble, it's a long freight-train and ride Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads RAILROAD RHYME, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing through the forests Last Line: Riding on the rail! Variant Title(s): Rhyme Of The Rail;riding On The Rail Subject(s): Ingenuity; Railroads; Railways; Trains RAILROAD SECTION LEADER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ef ah could, ah sholy would Last Line: Sun ain gone down yit Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads RAILWAY DIALOGUE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the train a lord chancellor, taking his seat Last Line: "to find myself seated so near the great seal." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Railroads; Talk; Railways; Trains RAILWAY DREAMINGS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I work upon the line to-day Last Line: In the sharp raspings of the pick. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains RAILWAY SIGNALS, FR. BEWARE FALLING TORTOISES, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a good place for those things to wait Last Line: Watching the litter left in the tide's track Subject(s): Museums; Railroads RAILWAY STATIONERY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The railway stationery lay upon Last Line: Now it screams closer, and he flags it down Subject(s): Railroads RAVENGLASS RAILWAY STATION, CUMBERLAND, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ip-line platform bridges a metal road Last Line: Wringing from the earth its last few drops of green %long years after the once tall trunk is down Subject(s): Railroads REACTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heart, sink into yourself and rally Last Line: Return to your solitude, oh heart! Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Night; Railroads; Woods; Bedtime; Railways; Trains RED LINE, by DAVID A. LANDMAN Poem Source First Line: She got on board at harvard square Last Line: She got out at park street under Subject(s): Girls; Railroads RID OF HIS ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way that it came about was this Last Line: Bill had got rid of his engine at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains RIDING DOWN FROM BANGOR, by LOUIS SHREVE OSBORNE Poem Text First Line: Riding down from bangor, on an eastern train Last Line: A tiny little earring in that horrid student's beard. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains RIDING ON A RAILROAD TRAIN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people like to hitch and hike Last Line: My private joy, both man and boy, %is being a railroad rider Subject(s): Railroads RIDING THE EMPIRE BUILDER, 1948, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father in the snowy window, face incandescent Last Line: For where he's going too, crossed hands drowsing on his chest Subject(s): Fathers; Railroads RIDING THE ROCK ISLAND THROUGH KANSAS, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Listen to the rock island train Last Line: Goodbye to the rock island ride Subject(s): Kansas; Railroads; Rock Island Railroad RIGHT OF WAY, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: What works best Last Line: It doesn't matter why Subject(s): Railroads RIGHTS OF WAY, by THOMAS REITER Poem Source First Line: Its rails and the main chance gone to scrap Last Line: To give your garden a prairie look Subject(s): Railroads RIVER TOWNS, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: On hills above train stations Last Line: Seperate. Divided by the river Subject(s): Railroads; Rivers; Towns RONDEAU AT THE TRAIN STOP, by ERIN BELIEU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay Last Line: So apparent, wanting so much that it bothers me. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Railroads; Railways; Trains ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Last Line: On my knees to cry, who the hell are you, kid Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel SCIENCE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of a thousand strings, awake Last Line: And live beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Nature; Railroads; Science; Dead, The; Railways; Trains; Scientists SECTION GANG: AFTERNOON, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: A simmering sun glows and gleams Last Line: His pick and shovel in their cool dank resting places for the night. Subject(s): Afternoon; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains SECTION GANG: DAYBREAK, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Up comes the sun Last Line: But he wouldn't know. Subject(s): Dawn; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Sunrise; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains SECTION GANG: MORNING, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Even steel, with its tough heart Last Line: And he feels the impact of a well completed swing of his pointed pick. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Morning; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains SECTION GANG: NIGHT, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Gandy dancers sleep all night Last Line: But he wouldn't know ... Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Night; Railroads; Work; Workers; Bedtime; Railways; Trains SELF-PORTRAIT APPROACHING PROMONTORY, UTAH, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Again today it is Last Line: Now what could be happening now? Subject(s): Railroads SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 3. THE LOCOMOTIVE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whirling along its living freight, it came Last Line: Hung clouded in the dragon-guarded shrine. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains SHE, THE IMMORTAL FAIRY, APPEARED TO ME SUDDENLY AND WITH HER HARPOON, by MIQUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I'd board the train Last Line: Would console me Subject(s): Railroads; Travel SIR BRUIN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir bruin was a gallant lad Last Line: "all in ""our best society." Subject(s): Forests; Hunting; Railroads; Woods; Hunters; Railways; Trains SISTER LOU, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey Last Line: Honey, take yo' bressed time. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Railways; Trains SISTER ON THE TRACKS, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between pond and sheepbarn, by maples and watery birches Last Line: A double scent of heaven and cut hay Subject(s): Railroads SLEEPERS, by VALERIE GILLIES Poem Source First Line: They worked a tracklife of fifty years Last Line: Rivers rear in their courses, %sleepers rise, trees again Subject(s): Railroads SLOW TRAIN, by ANDREW STEEVES Poem Source First Line: Whoever speaks of speed and trains Last Line: This back-shift before the dawn, %this smouldering moment Subject(s): Railroads SONG OF A TRAIN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monster taught / to come to hand Last Line: The train. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains SONG OF THE ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shake and rush of the engine Last Line: "of a black beast of burden like me?" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips SOUTHERN BLUES, by WILLIAM LEE CONLEY BROONZY Poem Source First Line: When I got up this mornin', I heard the old southern whistle blow Last Line: I say my baby's gone to georgia, I believe I'll go to georgia, too Subject(s): Blues (music); Railroads SOUTHERN PACIFIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long Last Line: Blithery, sleep in houses six feet long. Subject(s): Graves; Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900); Railroads; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains SPIRITUAL RAILWAY; ELY CATHEDRAL, A MONUMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The line to heaven by christ was made Last Line: If you'll repent and turn from sin %the train will stop and take you in Subject(s): Railroads SPRING NIGHT, by ELISABETH GOOLD Poem Text First Line: The train's whistle blats impatiently ... Last Line: Along the earth. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States STAYING, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: Wherever night overtakes her Last Line: Migrating through the balckened keys Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel STEEL MILL MEN, by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD Poem Text First Line: The rails are shipped to peru, africa Last Line: Of steel mill smoke. Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Railroads; Steel; Railways; Trains STENOGRAPHY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers walked around the hill Last Line: And while he tries, she -- leaves him. Subject(s): Railroads; Stenography; Railways; Trains STILL LIFE, by ROBIN BEHN Poem Source First Line: There is a train, no, there are train Last Line: Flower's faces. Vases and vases Subject(s): Life; Railroads STOOD AT CLEAR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is adams?' that was the cry Last Line: Might find heaven's signals clear to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day? Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains SUCCES COMES TO COW CREEK, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the tracks Subject(s): Railroads; Failure; Railways; Trains SUNDAY AT HAMPSTEAD: 10, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we rush, as we rush in the train Last Line: While the earth slips from our feet! Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Variant Title(s): In The Train Subject(s): Hope; Railroads; Optimism; Railways; Trains SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision; Fancy; Railways; Trains SUNFLOWER SUTRA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the Last Line: Motive riverbank sunset frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown %vision Subject(s): Imagination; Railroads; Sunflowers; Vision SUNSET CABOOSE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freight train, freight train / going so fast' Last Line: To what is brought out of light Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TAKE THIS HAMMER, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take this hammer, (huh!) carry it to the captain, (huh!) Last Line: Tell him I'm gone, (huh!) tell him I'm gone. (huh!) Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Railroads TAKE THIS HAMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Take this hammer -- huh Last Line: You tell him I was cryin' -- huh Subject(s): Railroads TAKING THE NIGHT-TRAIN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Source First Line: A tremulous word, a lingering hand, the burning Last Line: Does no sweet soul, awakened, feel me going? %loves no dear heart, in dreams, to keep me there? Subject(s): Railroads TANK TOWN, by JOHN ATHERTON Poem Source First Line: On the forgotten si- %ding, weeds grow, between Last Line: Neglected cars on the si- %ding, ding, ding Subject(s): Railroads TARZANIA, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Run down the weeded hill Last Line: Tarzania, girl queen of the metro jungle Subject(s): Girls; Railroads TEARING UP THE TRACKS, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: There is sand where the tracks where Last Line: Your track kept turning to eternity Subject(s): Railroads TENTH AVENUE, NORTH BIRMINGHAM, by ALBERT A. ROSENTHAL Poem Text First Line: The illinois central run their tracks into the dawn Last Line: Rattle into eternity .... Subject(s): Birmingham, Alabama; Railroads; Railways; Trains TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TERMINAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over us stands the broad electric dace Last Line: Distance is dead and light can only die Subject(s): Railroads; Travel THE BLACK TRAIN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm still struck (as when I saw my first pasque-flower) Last Line: And the empty cars wait for the black train to head inland Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE BOXCAR, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the boxcar rumbling and rolling afar Last Line: To dare the ups and downs of the road with me. Subject(s): Railroads; Wandering & Wanderers; Railways; Trains; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE BOXCAR POEM, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boxcars drift by Last Line: On either shoulder Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE BRIDGE: 2. POWHATAN'S DAUGHTER: THE RIVER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stick your patent name on a signboard Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE BROWN GIANT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah for this rough brown giant of ours! Last Line: The bloodless battles of toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Giants; God; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE CATTLE TRAIN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They drive the helpless cattle in Last Line: At forty miles an hour. Subject(s): Cattle; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE CAVEMAN ON THE TRAIN, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first the apprizing eye and tongue that muttered Subject(s): Railroads; Transience; Railways; Trains; Impermanence THE CHILDREN'S TRAIN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the train approaches the tunnel, the kids Subject(s): Children; Railroads; Childhood; Railways; Trains THE CUCKOO, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the sound of picks to-day Last Line: The cuckoo's voice for the first time. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE END OF THE LINE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The iron horse is rusting Last Line: Baby, I tell you, the big train don't go there no more Subject(s): Change; History; Railroads; Historians; Railways; Trains THE ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! For the mighty engine Last Line: Let him sing, too, the shovel and pick. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE EXPRESS, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the first powerful, plain manifesto Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE FIRST BREAK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first break in our happy household hearth Last Line: Close by his rest, they thunder day by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death - Children; Fathers & Sons; Railroads; Death - Babies; Railways; Trains THE FIRST-FOOT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall Last Line: My darling's blood with that round light upon the ghastly snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains THE FLAGMEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drear, lonely men beside the ringing track Last Line: To be for all one's life a danger sign! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE GATES ARE DOWN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gates are down, but I wonder, I wonder Last Line: Out on the red tracks, dying -- dying! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS Poem Text First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon! Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST Poem Text First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route. Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F. Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States THE GODS AND THE WINDS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still gods, though they move apart Last Line: "we won our godship far too young." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Railroads; Wind; Railways; Trains THE HELL-BOUND TRAIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor Last Line: For he never rode the hell-bound train Subject(s): Cowboys;railroads; Railways;trains THE HOME EXPRESS, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the city's rush is over, and the monthly ticket shown Last Line: In the twilight and the moonlight just begun! Subject(s): Homecoming; Railroad Stations; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE IRON HORSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song is mine of arab steed Last Line: The world will pat thee on the neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE JOURNEY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The train puffs off, and we depart, - fay of my heart, enchanted muse Last Line: I present him, lovely muse, to thee. Subject(s): Muses; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE LAST RUN (A RAILROAD BRANCH LINE IS ADANDONED), by SADIE FULLER SEAGRAVE Poem Text First Line: As I look out in quickly stolen glance Last Line: The long last run into the silent west. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE LAST TRAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There may have been a boy Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The red express, projectile Subject(s): Speed; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE MUTE LOVERS ON THE RAILWAY JOURNEY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bade farewell; but neither spoke of love Last Line: While fields and woods ran back to edith more. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE NEW RAILROAD, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skull cries out: 'I'm an ambassador Last Line: By the first whistle of the new express. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE NEWPORT RAILWAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the newport railway Last Line: On the bonnie braes o' the silvery tay. Subject(s): Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE ORIENT EXPRESS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One looks from the train Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE PACIFIC RAILWAY, by C. R. BALLARD Poem Text First Line: Tis done - the wondrous thorough-fare Last Line: And nations shall learn war no more. Subject(s): Railroads; United States - History; Railways; Trains THE POPPY-LAND EXPRESS, by EDGAR WADE ABBOT Poem Text First Line: The first train starts at six p.M Last Line: "o'er the gentle engineer." Variant Title(s): Rapid Transit Subject(s): Railroads; Sleep; Railways; Trains THE PRESENT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day comes slowly in the railyard Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains THE RAILROAD CARS ARE COMING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the great pacific railway, / for california hail!" Last Line: "the railroad cars are coming, humming / through new mexico" Subject(s): Railroads; Railways;trains THE RAILWAY, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the iron highway, wreathed in smoke Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE RAILWAY BRIDGE OF THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery tay! Last Line: Near by dundee and the magdalen green. Subject(s): Bridges; Buildings & Builders; Engineering And Engineers; Railroads; Steel; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE RAILWAY STATIONERY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The railway stationery lay upon Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE RAILWAY TRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see it lap the miles Last Line: At its own stable door. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Railroads; Rivers; Railways; Trains THE ROUNDHOUSE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rembrandt alone could paint this mammoth shed Last Line: Bound by a schedule to the clamoring hour! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports; Railways; Trains THE SILVER ARROW, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With your fifteen percent chance to survive Last Line: Unbidden, through the forbidden city Subject(s): Railroads; Survival; Marriage THE SOUTHERN CRESCENT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In 1959 my mother is boarding a train. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fling for a moment, my fellows Last Line: For one wild moment to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Progress; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains THE STATION MAN, ON LOOK-OUT, by ARCHIE BINNS Poem Text First Line: All night long Last Line: Does my sweetheart in san francisco still love me? Subject(s): Love; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. ROSES ALL THE WAY, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: At length the steam-chiefs with replenish'd force Last Line: May be inferr'd, since peel and brougham were there! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. THE DEATH OF HUSKISSON, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: The trains are stopp'd, the mighty chiefs of flame Last Line: But damped the joy that erst had crown'd the day. Subject(s): Accidents; Huskisson, William (1770-1830); Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. THE RAILWAY BOOM, 1845, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: New schemes, not even dream'd of once before Last Line: Determined, like the rest, to have their rails. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 7. LESSON FOR THE PROUD, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: The scheme is tried, and shall it prosper too? Last Line: Their own comparative nonentity. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9. VISION OF THE WORLD, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I walked, in raptures high Last Line: As I in vision view'd! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 9: GREAT WESTERN DAYS, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Triumphant was the burst of rapt'rous joy Last Line: Short time for greeting, none at all for war. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE SUNDAY RAIL: 1. FIRST RUNNING SUNDAY TRAINS ON NORTH BRITISH RAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires! Last Line: Oh, is it too much?—'tis but one day in seven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Railroads; Sabbath; English; Railways; Trains; Sunday THE SUNDAY RAIL: 2. A SCOTTISH SUMMER SABBATH MORNING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The still repose, the holy calm Last Line: By idle pleasure, sin, and folly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Railroads; Religion; Sabbath; Scotland; Railways; Trains; Theology; Sunday THE TEMPTER, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm a hundred miles from home Last Line: And who's to blame? That depot man. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE TIME TABLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The railroad has a table Last Line: A highly seasoned jam! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE TRAIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accident could be a god to little boys Last Line: We said, with intonation, what a shame. Subject(s): Accidents; Maine (state); Railroads; Rain; Strangers; Railways; Trains THE TRAIN-MISSER; AT UNION STATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ll where in the world my eyes has bin Last Line: Like a blamed old sandwitch warped in two! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TRANSPORTATION SITUATION', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have starved the steam horse Last Line: We shall get back our horse Subject(s): Railroads; Horses; Progress THE TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the jersey city shed Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE VIADUCT, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when I found the narrowing estuary Last Line: Stacked waggons, slow unthinking slaves between. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THE VIOLET, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the down line, and close beside the rail Last Line: Unheeding, thunders on. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Flowers; Railroads; Violets; Railways; Trains THE VOYAGE, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have buried the city Last Line: The train is thundering toward eternity. Subject(s): Cities; Earth; Railroads; Travel; Urban Life; World; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WATCHERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trains go roaring past by day and flashing by at night Last Line: Who never know the world is wide—and do not want to know! Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vision; Watchmen; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips THE WHISTLE OF THE TRAIN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is up, the friends are near Last Line: The whistle of the train. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Railroads; Dead, The; Parting; Railways; Trains THE WIRES, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beneath the long slim wires Last Line: But the pullman is twenty minutes late. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains THERE'S A MAN, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Reading late into the evening. When he looks up Last Line: And take up the packages? Subject(s): Railroads; Waiting THIS RAILWAY STATION, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: This squalid dome of soot-obscured glass Last Line: This builder's blot, this curse, this railway station. Subject(s): Dramatists; Poetry & Poets; Railroads; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Railways; Trains THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers Last Line: But time goes out in grey. Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Sex; Railroads; Time; Opportunity TIME IS THE LATE TRAIN INTO ALBANY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get down to cases Subject(s): Railroads; Time TO FREIGHT CARS IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the slow Last Line: The silence / to the left Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TO FREIGHT CARS IN THE AIR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the slow Last Line: In silence %to the left Subject(s): Railroads TO MY READERS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worker on the rail, where, day by day Last Line: This book of railway song. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains TO THE RAILROAD MEN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brotherhood of engineers Last Line: Of so-called sleeping cars at 8o? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. FROM TURIN TO PARIS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tireless, hour after hour, over mountain plains and rivers Last Line: And the glitter and the roar already, and the rush of the life of paris. Subject(s): Paris, France; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS THE LAST SPIKE, SELS., by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Canada; Canadian Pacific Railway; Railroads; Van Horne, Sir William (1843-1915) TRACKS, by ELIZABETH BOHM Poem Source First Line: Two azure lines traverse the town Subject(s): Railroads TRACKS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, two o'clock: moonlight. The train has stopped Variant Title(s): Track Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TRACKS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, two o'clock: moonlight. The train has stopped Last Line: Two o'clock: full moonlight, few stars Variant Title(s): Trac Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Train skims fields like a low-flying Last Line: As weeds beside the rail bed Subject(s): Commuters; Home; Railroads; Roads; Travel TRAIN, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The train came by every day while I lived there Last Line: In the shadow of a train Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He was never really sure why he had taken that train. He Last Line: And along with the hangover would come the certainty that no station %would ever be his Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Commuters; Grief; Railroads TRAIN, by ANN HUDSON Poem Source First Line: The woman stitches the mouth of a button-hole Last Line: Barely sees her face, a glass dinner plate Subject(s): Railroads; Travel TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I take a trip Last Line: We're gone in a flash! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Love - Complaints; Railroads; Women TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On any trip I take Last Line: We streak in a lightning bolt! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel TRAIN BLUES, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the forties and fifties it seemed like everytime Variant Title(s): The Old Trains At Nigh Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN IN THE DESERT - 1916, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: And so it comes Last Line: The world slipping darkly %off its wheels Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Railroads TRAIN JOURNEY, by AGNETA PLEIJEL Poem Source First Line: On the train between warsaw and gdansk Last Line: Someone gives me a piece %of strongly scented orange Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN JOURNEY, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glassed with cold sleep and dazzled by the moon Last Line: Suddenly into flowers more lovely than the white moon Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN RIDE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things come to an end; / small calves in arkansas Last Line: No, they go on forever. Subject(s): Arkansas; Fate; Railroads; Travel; Destiny; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips TRAIN TO AMERSFOORT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TRAIN TRAVEL, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Early morning rises off the fields Last Line: Where in the end are the worlds we leave behind Subject(s): Commuters; Explorers; Railroads; Travel TRAIN TUNE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back through clouds Last Line: Back through midnight Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TRAIN TUNE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back through clouds Last Line: Back through midnight Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Railroads TRAIN WILL BE AT LEAST AN HOUR LATE, by SANDRO PENNA Poem Source Last Line: Are sole masters of the hour Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Travel TRAIN WINDOW, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: The dark green truck on the cement platform Last Line: Box-cars beyond, while our train waits here. Subject(s): Ice; Railroads; Railways; Trains TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel TRAINS AT NIGHT, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the whistle of trains at night Last Line: Each sleepy blinking town in bed! Subject(s): Railroads TRAINS CARRYING SLEEPERS, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: The dolphins made me stay in that town. The first time I saw them I Last Line: Did not split at the hip, that did not open and open Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Sleep; Travel TRAINS WHISTLING, by ELEANOR A. FAY Poem Text First Line: Trains whistling in the night Last Line: Moving steadily through the darkness. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TRAVELLER, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pointed me out on the highway, and they said Last Line: The end of their journey, I descended too Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Railroads; Travel TREE FERNS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were the local ohio palm, tropic in the heat of trains. Subject(s): Palm Trees; Railroads; Railways; Trains TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK, by NAOMI WALLACE Poem Source First Line: The train was pulling eight cars at seventy tons apiece Last Line: Their still new hearts tossing like dice in their chests Subject(s): Railroads TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED, by RUTH NORRIS KENT Poem Text First Line: The train is coming down the track Last Line: My soul's on the train somehow! Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TWILIGHT TRAIN, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pink is in the water Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains TWO BROTHERS: TWO SALTIMBANQUES, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Two boys stand at the end of the full train Last Line: They start home together for supper and bread Subject(s): Children; Labor And Laborers; Railroads TWO WOMEN, by NAN MINARD STENDER Poem Source First Line: Poetry unlocks poetry Last Line: Or the train willnever reach the platform Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Railroads; Women UNION PACIFIC, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: They've promised me Last Line: And he will again feel on his skin, %on his tongue, %in his throat, %the sweet ashes %of the union p Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads VACATION TIME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I catch my grandfather basking in the sun Last Line: Flora und fauna in den alpen Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Vacation VICTORIA, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From victoria I can go Last Line: I'm the sorriest one in all the nation %when my train runs into victoria station Subject(s): England; Railroads; Travel VIEW, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the last pullman of the day pulls into the grand canyon station Subject(s): Railroads; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Railways; Trains VILLAGE RAILROAD, by HARLAN J. LEACH Poem Text First Line: In lingering curve it lies across the town Last Line: That knows the sea, the plain, the mountain pine. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains W (VIVA): 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (one fine day Last Line: Did always teethe Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Railroads WABASH CANNONBALL, by ALTON DELMORE Poem Source First Line: From the rocky-bound atlantic to the south pacific shore Last Line: As they ride the rods and brake-beams on the wabash cannonball Subject(s): Country Music; Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering WAITING, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the trains go by Subject(s): Railroads; Waiting; Railways; Trains WALK, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a walk on the railroad track Last Line: And go. Walking first on one rail %and then the other Subject(s): Railroads; Walking WAY-STATION, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The incoherent rushing of the train Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WEST SHORE ELERVASHUN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: We held elecshun in our town Last Line: Who haz the rite uv way? Subject(s): Engineering & Engineers; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips WET, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WHAT THE ENGINE SAYS, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the mighty engine say Last Line: Butting space backward with his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains WHAT THE ENGINES SAID; OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it the engines said Last Line: With a whistle at the close. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WHAT THE TRAIN RUN OVER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the train came shrieking down Last Line: This is what the train runs over. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains WHAT WE DID TO WHAT WE WERE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pass through towering wheat Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WHEELS OF TRAINS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are there just the same Last Line: For all my travels Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Railroads; Wheels WHO WILL KNOW US, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, bitter as a penny Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains WHO WILL KNOW US, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold, bitter as a penny Last Line: Who will know us when we breathe through the glass? Subject(s): Railroads WINDOW, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night from a railroad car window Last Line: Broken across with slashes of light. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Bedtime; Railways; Trains WINDOWS RIDING AMTRAK; FOR ABE OPINCAR, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurtle through night tunnels Last Line: The last remaining link. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Railroads; Solitude; Widows & Widowers; Railways; Trains; Loneliness WORKING ON THE RAILWAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-one Last Line: To work upon the machinery / in the sub-terranean railway Subject(s): Railroads; Railways;trains YOU CAN DEPEND ON GOD, YOUR FRIEND!, by BERNICE CONEY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: When the world seems to be crashing all around you Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Railroads; Religion |
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