Bridges in Art - Poems

Poems

  • The nursery rhyme London Bridge is falling down
  • William McGonagall's poem on The Tay Bridge Disaster (1880)
  • Wordsworth's famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802", opening with the famous lines, referring to the view from the bridge,
    Earth has not anything to show more fair:
    Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
    A sight so touching in its majesty.
  • Julia A. Moore's poem on the Ashtabula Disaster:
    Have you heard of the dreadful fate
    Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
    Of their death I will relate,
    And also others lost their life;
    Ashtabula Bridge disaster,
    Where so many people died
    Without a thought that destruction
    Would plunge them 'neath the wheel of tide. (1879)

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