Here's the one I did then.
Silvery Tay
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,
Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery Tay?
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Both of them speak of something that is gone.
The whiles someone did chant this lovely lay.
‘Beautiful railway bridge of the silvery Tay,
So absolute she seems and in herself complete!’
He opened the door and he walked down the street.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,
Across the railway bridge of the silvery Tay!
Bid me to weep, and I will weep
Wide as the realms of air, or planet’s curving sweep.
Beautiful new railway bridge of the silvery Tay,
The breath of Winter comes from far away.
Line 1: Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
Line 2: McGonagall: The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
Line 3: Tennyson: Tithonus
Line 4: Wordsworth: Immortality Ode
Line 5: Spenser:: The Faerie Queen, The Song of the Rose
Line 6: McGonagall: The Tay Bridge Disaster
Line 7: Milton: Paradise Lost Book 8
Line 8: Ayres: Arthur Dan Steeley. The Novelty Act
Line 9: Hopkins: Sonnet: I Wake…
Line 10: McGonagall: The Newport Railway
Line 11: Herrick: Bid Me To Live
Line 12: Austin: Love’s Trinity
Line 13: McGonagall: An Address to the New Tay Bridge
Line 14: Keats: Isabella
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