Welcome:

This blog was prompted by my son (in his twenties) wanting to get more seriously into poetry and asking me to recommend some poems. Where to begin? So this is primarily for him, but I hope other readers might enjoy it too.


Thursday, 2 February 2012

William McGonigall

The Tay Bridge Disaster

Only joking.

Just one verse to give you a taster:

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

If you must read on, click on http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster

Possibly the worst poem ever written by the poet often voted the worst in the world. (Mind you, Wordsworth had some crackers.)

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