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Navvies Poems - Poems about Navvies

Navvies Poems - Examples of all types of poems about navvies to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for navvies.

The Hanging Tree
...Come, my love and meet me Come, my love and meet me Along the fields by The Hanging Tree Come, my love and watch the navvies building the canal there, Near The Hanging Tree Come, my love and res......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, allusion, murder, mystery,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member A Hovel In the Woods
...I stumbled on a hovel in the woods Dug in a foothill roofed with mossy shakes. Inside, its furthest wall was made of stones Piled high to make a chimney and a hearth. Two stovepipes served as dra......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, analogy, loneliness,
Form: Blank verse
Reg Everson
...Kitted out with a uniform, I felt the part, But the deesire inside is always the art; I was enlisted as a pilot under training, And inoculated, vaccinated in yearning. The medical exam asser......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, courage, death, history, tribute,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two
...Stilled again across the canals broadening Girth; Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth, Reflecting the glints that gleefully Twist and dance in the h......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Apology To Eliot
...Let us go to certain half-desserted restaurant Where cheese is spread on the table like an elkmilksheet Steaks are burnt, curries are bland, puddings are mulberry mist Let us go to certain half-......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, age, allegory, angst, crazy,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member The Cut
...A country yearns industry from assiduous minds revolutionary, cities conceived with mind set and skill yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia those in need of life’s blood, akin to human organ......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
...Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The navvies were round knocking on doors They had some tarmac left and they could get more Yes we needed the drive and a path But we weren’t going to be in, that was the first......Read the rest...
Categories: navvies, funny,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs