Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon in Bristol (United Kingdom)

Once in Victoria’s golden age

When crinolines were all the rage

A dame in fashionable attire

Would change her life for one up higher

So up to Clifton Bridge she went

And made a parachute descent

But though, ‘twas not the lady’s wish

A boatman hooked her like a fish

And thus a slave to fashion’s jaws

Was snatched from out of Death’s hungry jaws

This story’s true I’d have you know

And thus it only goes to show

Poem to Sarah Henley 

who jumped from Clifton Bridge and survived