The Poetry of Trains: A wide ranging anthology of classic poets for their take on the arrival of the system that powered the industrial revolution.
Written by Damon Runyon, Amy Lowell and Alexander Anderson
Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Kelly Burke and Elliot Fitzpatrick
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The train was the first mass transit system to network the land and to carry people and materials of every class and of every shape. A sort of democracy with the only requirement of use being the price of a ticket.
Poets who grew up with this pulsating leviathan of industry were quick to see its merits for their own lines and verse.
Across these poems comes both an individual eye across a wide range of feelings, thoughts and ideas as well as, occasionally, the trainspotter’s delight for form and detail from poets such as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Edna St Vincent Millay, Damon Runyon and a host of others.
1 - The Poetry of Trains - An Introduction
2 - A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon
3 - Song of a Train by John Davidson
4 - Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 - Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe
6 - Up the Line by Will Carleton
7 - From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
8 - An Incident in a Railroad Car by Jamers Russell Lowell
9 - Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper
10 - On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson
11 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke
12 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay
13 - Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca
14 - The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
15 - Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher
16 - The Rail Road by James Very
17 - The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson
18 - In the Train by James Thomson
19 - The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce
20 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson
21 - The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
22 - The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873
23 - The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field
24 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
25 - The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall
26 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
27 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan
28 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay
29 - In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
30 - Railway Rhymes by C L Graves
31 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau
32 - The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman
33 - Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell
34 - Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy
35 - Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon
36 - The Phantom Train by Tom Hood
37 - One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce
38 - September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth
39 - Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove
40 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird
41 - In the Train by Sara Teasdale
42 - To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman
43 - On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy
44 - Guild Signal by Bret Harte
45 - The Send Off by Wilfred Owen
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