River Tyne Poems - Poems about River Tyne

...CHASING THE SUN Standing on the beach outside the Spanish City at Whitley Bay we would see the PO ferry on the horizon, and the chase was on, legging it like mad down to Tynemouth to catch that da......Read the rest...

...Intrduction -Byron’s Sonnet If I can say the lines that make her mine, and stay from speaking trite words she would hate, but rather play her praise of golden weight, then homage I would make g......Read the rest...

...GOING BACK It was not an endearing place, a storybook place With little cottages and Loaded fruit trees from which apples could be casually filched, Nor were there sparkling streams ......Read the rest...

...NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND Half-Scot, half-English and ill at ease with the past, Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama, And the breathless town was always in a hurry to gro......Read the rest...

...SUBMARINE It was Navy Day on the River Tyne* I can remember I was about nine. Four big grey warships to be seen And a small black submarine. The big ships were truly splendid With flags and......Read the rest...

...GATESHEAD 1954 My home’s between vinegar factory And a small-time scrap metal dealer This town is an ugly and grimy Industrial place - and it doesn’t get any realer Like rich woman n......Read the rest...