River Tyne Poems - Poems about River Tyne

...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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