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    The Poetry of Trains
    The Poetry of Trains
    The Poetry of Trains
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    The Poetry of Trains

    By Damon Runyan, Edward Thomas and Alexander Anderson

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    The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateNov 1, 2023
    ISBN9781835470411
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      The Poetry of Trains - Damon Runyan

      The Poetry of Trains

      An Introduction

      The mythology of the Train, the Railroad, those two shiny tracks running off into the far distance is a powerful symbol of the industrial age.

      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.

      Index of Contents

      A Song of the Rails by Damon Runyon

      Song of a Train by John Davidson

      Song of the Rail by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe

      Up the Line by Will Carleton

      From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

      An Incident in a Railroad Car by James Russell Lowell

      Railway Times by Martin Faraquar Tupper

      On the Engine by Night by Alexander Anderson

      The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke

      Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay

      Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca

      The Train by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

      Homeward Ho! by Ada A Mosher

      The Rail Road by James Very

      The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson

      In the Train by James Thomson

      The Division Superintendent by Ambrose Bierce

      The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson

      The Train Among the Hills by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

      The Gospel Train. Transcribed by Christine Rutledge of the Carolina Singers 1873

      The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway by Eugene Field

      In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

      The Ledbury Train by Radclyffe Hall

      Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

      The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan

      Subway Wind by Claude McKay

      In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound 

      Railway Rhymes by C L Graves

      What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau

      The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman

      Thompson's Lunch Room, Grand Central Station by Amy Lowell

      Faintheart in a Railway Train by Thomas Hardy

      Song O' the Lost Trains by Damon Runyon

      The Phantom Train by Tom Hood

      One of the Unfair Sex by Ambrose Bierce

      September 1st. 1802 by William Wordsworth

      Autumn in the Garden by Fredegond Shove

      A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird

      In the Train by Sara Teasdale

      To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman

      On the Departure Platform by Thomas Hardy

      Guild Signal by Bret Harte

      The Send Off by Wilfred Owen

      THE POETRY OF TRAINS

      A Song of the Rails

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