Pont de la Citadelle over the Isére River in Grenoble, Isére (France)

 "At the end of every street is a mountain"

Stendhal about Grenoble.

Pont de Bergues over the Leman Lake in Geneva (Switzerland)

It is the sacred hour: above the farLow emerald hills that northward fold,
Calmly, upon the blue the evening star
Floats, wreathed in dusky gold.
The winds have sung all day; but now they lie
Faint, sleeping; and the evening sounds awake.
The slow bell tolls across the water: I
Am haunted by the spirit of the lake.

...

From the poem Lake Leman

by Harold Muro 

Five Arch Bridge over the Conesus Lake Outlet in Avon, New York (United States)

Big iron horses road across five yards bridge
And me and my grandpa we watched from the ridge
He knew all the trains, he'd call out each one
Where they're goin' too, where they're comin' from

Lyrics of Big Iron Horses

about this bridge by Restless Heart

Aerial Lift Bridge over the Duluth Ship Canal in Duluth, Minnesota (United States)

“The foreman was a short, iron-jawed man. He had once made a trip as far as Duluth. Duluth was far across the blue waters of the lake in the hills of Minnesota. A wonderful thing had happened to him there.”

Excerpt from The Torrents of Spring,

Ernst Hemingway

Bridges over the Saone River in Lyon (France)

Lyon, est-ce bien toi que la France abandonne,
Toi, la plus belle fleur de sa noble couronne ?
Toi, qui de ses rivaux fixes l'œil envieux ?
Eh ! de quoi punit-on ce peuple industrieux,
D'une liberté sage adorateur sincère,
Qui la sut conserver même aux jours de Tibère ;
Qui, paisible, mais fier, chérissait à la fois
Et son indépendance et le nom de ses rois ?

Excerpt from the poem Lyon en 1793

by Amable Tastu

Ponte Teatro (Theater Bridge) crossing the Passirio River in Merano, Trentino - Alto Adige (Italy)

 O light the heart
That lingers in Merano
Merano! The spa no
Connoisseur of spas would miss
So healthy

Highly recommended
Is this sweet metropolis
Mental and physical bliss!

Lyrics of Merano

from Benny Andersson

Old Port de France Bridge over the Isère River in Grenoble (France)

None may ask the troubled Isére
Back his bounding steps to measure!
Yet receding Memory's river
May all life's stains cleanse for ever

William Brainbridge

Pont Saint Laurent and Pont de la Citadelle over the Isére River in Grenoble, Isere (France)

Au milieu d'une tempête

De neige voilà qu'on s'arrête
Dans la ville endormie
Dans la ville engourdie
Endolorie par le froid
Endolorie par l'effroi
De la solitude même
Même qui fait qu'on s'amène

...

Lyrics from Grenoble

Castelhemis

Old Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge over the Moskva River in Moscow (Russia)

Moscow, who are you?
Echantress or enchanted?Forger of freedom
or fettered lady?
What thought furrows your brow
as you plot your worldwide plot?
Are you a shining window
into another age?
O Moscow, are you femme fatale
...

Poem by Velimir Khlebnikov

Pont Rialto crossing the Canal de Briaire in Briaire, Loiret (France)

"Le deffunct Roy... avoit jugé‚ de pouvoir rien‚
ètre fait de plus utile et advantageux au public pour le commerce et transport des marchandises et denrées de province en autres et particuliérement en notre bonne ville de Paris que la communication des riviéres de Seine et de Loire par le moyen d'un canal navigable depuis Briaire jusques en notre ville..."

Letter by Louis XIII of France, september 1638

Kornhaus Bridge across the river Aare in Bern (Switzerland)

Le duc Berchtold V. von Zähringen ordonna au seigneur Cuno von Bubenberg de bâtir une ville sur la presqu'île recouverte d'une forêt de chênes. La légende dit que le duc aurait tué un ours et c'est pour ça que Berne s'appelle Berne. "Bär" veut dire "ours" en allemand; après quelques changements, c'est devenu Berne. D'ailleurs le drapeau de Berne représente un ours.

Legend about Bern origin

Sonnborner Bridge crossing the Wupper River in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

Unter mir, über mir rennen die Wellen, die Wagen, und gütig
Gönnte der Meister mir selbst, auch mit hinüber zu gehn.

Friedrich Schiller, 1797

Painting of the Mungsten Bridge over the Wüpper River near Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

Unter mir, über mir rennen die Wellen, die Wagen, und gütig
Gönnte der Meister mir selbst, auch mit hinüber zu gehn.

Friedrich Schiller, 1797

Nanjing Bridge crossing the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Jiangsu (China)

"The Yangtze never runs backwards"

Chinese Proverb

Bridge over a moat in Riva del Garda, Trentino (Italy)

”Tonight I might have been in Verona, but there was still a glorious work of nature at my side, a precious spectacle, the Lake of Garda; I did not wish to miss it, and am gloriously rewarded for my détour"

Goethe about
the Garda Lake

Ancient London Bridge crossing River Thames in London (United Kingdom)

London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair Lady.

Build it up with wood and clay,
Wood and clay, wood and clay,
Build it up with wood and clay,
My fair Lady.

Wood and clay will wash away,
Wash away, wash away,
Wood and clay will wash away,
My fair Lady.

English nursery rhyme

Pont Saint Michel over the Seine River in Paris (France)

"I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing...and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.” 

Michael Jackson,
about the dance

Old Bridge over the Canal de la Robine in Narbonne, Pyrénées Orientales (France)

Personne ne me remarque,

Je passe en deux villes

Et soudain je débarque

Sur les barques tranquilles.

La rue du Pont m'accueille

Et, gentiment, me dit :

"Tu vois, les jours s'effeuillent,

Adieu, mon vieux petit !"

From Narbonne mon amie

Song by Charles Trenet

Solkan Bridge over the Isonzo River near Nova Gorica (Slovenia)

The Isonzo scoured

Me like

One of its stones.

I pulled my four 

limbs together,

And went, like an acrobat,

Over the water.

Crouched by my clothes

Fouled with war, I inclined

My head, like a Bedouin,

To receive the sun.

From the poem Rivers

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Old bridges Maasbrug and Willemsbrug over the Meuse River in Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Before me lie dark waters
In broad canals and deep,
Whereon the silver moonbeams
Sleep, restless in their sleep;
A sort of vulgar Venice
Reminds me where I am;
Yes, yes, you are in England,
And I'm at Rotterdam.

Poem In Rotterdam

Thomas Hood