i am looking for the poem 'the night train' where can i find it?

Question

this is the night train crossing the border

Answer 1

Night Train (Commentary for a G.P.O. Film, July 1935) by W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.

Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.

Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder
Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,

Snorting noisily as she passes
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses.

Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Stare from the bushes at her blank-faced coaches.

Sheep-dogs cannot turn her course;
They slumber on with paws across.

In the farm she passes no one wakes,
But a jug in the bedroom gently shakes.

II

Dawn freshens. Her climb is done.
Down towards Glasgow she descends
Towards the steam tugs yelping down the glade of cranes,
Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces
Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.
All Scotland waits for her:
In the dark glens, beside the pale-green sea lochs
Men long for news.


III

Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And applications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Notes from overseas to Hebrides
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

IV

Thousands are still asleep
Dreaming of terrifying monsters,
Or of friendly tea beside the band at Cranston's or Crawford's:
Asleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,
Asleep in granite Aberdeen,
They continue their dreams,
And shall wake soon and long for letters,
And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart,
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Answer 2

Night Train Poem

Answer 3

It's included in a book called Read Me-A Poem A Day For The National Year Of Reading....or try any W.H Auden collection. (It's on page 420 of above title).

Answer 4

The poem "The Night Train" by John Kent.
The whistle of the train, has a beckoning sound,
when it comes, in the deeper dark,
as the dew clings to the the wet leaves
and the houses sleep in a soundless night.
From a distance the rumble of the train
cannot be discerned,
just the whistle is heard calling through the night
a lonely reverie.
The town is small,
hardly noticed by the train as it passes swiftly
with its sleeping cargo
to places unknown;
its leading light picking up the station
running on by with barely a glance.
The outlying dusty road
races with the train
seeking recognition,
then quits in exhaustion.
I stir, gaze out the window
at the unseen track,
left with my dreams as the whistle calls back.

Answer 5

If it is Auden's "Night Mail" you're looking for, you may be interested to know that the short film, "Night Mail", for which the poem was written is available on DVD. The film music was by Benjamin Britten.

Two editions are offered on DVD and one on VHS at MovieMail. Amazon UK and US claim one of the two (Night Mail/West Highland) is unavailable.

Answer 6

It will be in any "Collected Poems" edition of W.H.Auden. Published by Vintage International in the States, or Faber and Faber in the UK. Amazon have it.

Answer 7

Follow this link to get the poem:

www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1281.html

Answer 8

By W H Auden.

Answer 9

try www.themediadrome.com