Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns | ||||||||
Old ironmasters and their iron men With northern fire, grit, enterprise began it A hundred years ago. Later, we scan it Desolate homesteads welded into one, Hamlets grown up to towns, deep anchorages Gouged out of sand, wastes blossoming with the fierce White rose of foundries. So the pioneers Printed their work on nature's open page. Their steel made bridges from Sydney to Menai; Their ships networked the sea. Gain was in view But inch by inch out of the gain there grew A greater thingsense of community. Bridges are for drawing men together By closing gaps. Could those rough ghosts return, They'd find a world of difference, but discern That here is the same breed of men and weather. You are bridge-builders still. Only, today You draw six towns into a visioned O, Spanning from town to town the ebb and flow Of destiny. A dream is realised. May The northern kindliness and northern pride See, as your forebears would, the future in it. Here, a new spanour lives shall underpin it And earn fresh honours for our own Teesside. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN by JAMES GALVIN A TOWN DEDICATED TO THE PURSUIT OF FITNESS & INNER PEACE by ANSELM HOLLO AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WHAT COULD HAPPEN by DORIANNE LAUX TRAVELOGUE: WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DARK LIGHT by ELENI SIKELIANOS UP AT A VILLA - DOWN IN THE CITY by ROBERT BROWNING |
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