Poems about Transport

• Cargoes

  Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
  Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,

  by John Masefield 16 lines, 26 comments
• Mulga Bill's Bicycle

  'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze;
  He turned away the good old horse that served him many days;

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 40 lines, 2 comments
• From a Railway Carriage

  Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
  Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

  by Robert Louis Stevenson 15 lines, 8 comments
• The Railway Train

  I like to see it lap the miles,
  And lick the valleys up,

  by Emily Dickinson 18 lines
• Night Mail

  This is the night mail crossing the Border,
  Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

  by W H Auden 65 lines
• The Bus

  the tarpaulin flaps are buttoned down
  on the windows of the state transport bus.

  by Arun Kolatkar 28 lines
• Opening of the Railway Line

  The opening of the railway line…
  The Governor and all,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 7 lines, 1 comment
• The Hell-Bound Train

  A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
  Having drunk so much he could drink no more;

  by Anonymous Americas 60 lines
• The Railway Station

    The darkness brings no quiet here, the light
      No waking: ever on my blinded brain

  by Archibald Lampman 13 lines
• The Ballad of the Cars

  "Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup,"
    The kneeling doctor said.

  by Rudyard Kipling 100 lines
• Going Down Hill On A Bicycle: A Boy’s Song

  With lifted feet, hands still,
  I am poised, and down the hill

  by Henry Charles Beeching 28 lines
• The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway

  A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there;
  A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining chair;

  by Eugene Field 20 lines
• London Types : Bus Driver

  He's called The General from the brazen craft
  And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road

  by William Ernest Henley 13 lines
• The Shut-Eye Train

  Come, my little one, with me!
  There are wondrous sights to see

  by Eugene Field 53 lines
• Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives

  Men with picked voices chant the names
  of cities in a huge gallery: promises

  by William Carlos Williams 50 lines, 1 comment
• The Train

  A green eye-and a red-in the dark.
  Thunder-smoke-and a spark.

  by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 22 lines
• Song of a Train

  A monster taught
  To come to hand

  by John Davidson 55 lines
• Bus Stop

  Lights are burning
  In quiet rooms

  by Donald Justice 27 lines
• The Motor Bus

  What is this that roareth thus?
  Can it be a Motor Bus?

  by Alfred Denis Godley 20 lines
• To A Rusty Bicycle

  How many times in years gone by,
  My faithful grid have you and I

  by Cicely Fox Smith 42 lines
• In The Train

  Fields beneath a quilt of snow
  From which the rocks and stubble sleep,

  by Sara Teasdale 8 lines
• Service

  The Bus horse does not work all day,
      For if he did he'd waste away.

  by Mary Tourtel 8 lines
• The King’s Road

  The bus is swaying. We have left Sloane Square.
  Noisily the conductor climbs the stair.

  by Jan Struther 11 lines
• Cable Cars

  Deep at the bottom of a precipice
  a swift stream intensely blue goes bubbling by,

  by Shigeji Tsuboi 46 lines

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