Navvies Poems - Poems about Navvies

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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-......

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...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......

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...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......

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