Here is the most famous Lin Carter level poet: William McGonagall.
The Tay Bridge disaster happened on Sunday 28th December 1879. During a storm a section of the rail bridge collapsed as a train was passing over it, sadly killing everyone on board.
Here is Mr McGonagall's poem about that terrible and shocking event.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/tay-bridge-disaster/Selected choice quotes:
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvāry 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 rememberād for a very long time.
āTwas about seven oāclock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seemād to frown,
And the Demon of the air seemād to say-
āIāll blow down the Bridge of Tay.ā
As soon as the catastrophe came to be known
The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,
And the cry rang out all oāer the town,
Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,
And a passenger train from Edinburgh,
Which fillād all the peoples hearts with sorrow,
And made them for to turn pale,
Because none of the passengers were savād to tell the tale
How the disaster happenād on the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be rememberād for a very long time.
It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silvāry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silvāry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
Amazing. It really is. I shall now look to see if he wrote any poems about ghosts.