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As all of the works at Poets' Corner are old enough to be outside the copyright restrictions we don't find many poems talking about machines. Here are a few. Mugla Bill's Bicycle is a fun one.

Poetry is a statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity. - Carl Sandburg

1. The Zeppelin by Laurence Binyon
2. Song of a Train by John Davidson
3. Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. The Deacon's Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes

   Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay?

5. The Railroad by Ebenezer Jones
6. Mulga Bill's Bicycle by Andrew Barton Paterson

   Mugla Bill claims to be able to ride anything, but can he?

7. Manual System by Carl Sandburg
8. How Cyrus Laid the Cable by John Godfrey Saxe
9. Rhyme of the Rail by John Godfrey Saxe
10. The Gramaphone at Fond-Du-Lac by Robert W. Service
11. Arms Old and New by Charles Turner

    We arm the depths above us and beneath!
    

12. To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman
13. The Engine by Ella Wheeler Wilcox