Harbour Bridge spanning the Parramatta River in Sydney (Australia)

"...you can see it from every corner of the city, creeping into frame from the oddest angles, like an uncle who wants to get into every snapshot. From a distance it has a kind of gallant restraint, majestic but not assertive, but up close it is all might. It soars above you, so high that you could pass a ten-storey building beneath it, and looks like the heaviest thing on earth. Everything that is in it – the stone blocks in its four towers, the latticework of girders, the metal plates, the six-million rivets (with heads like halved apples) – is the biggest of its type you have ever seen... This is a great bridge."

Bill Bryson's impressions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Harbour Bridge spanning the Parramatta River in Sydney (Australia)

In her grey majesty of ancient stone 
She queens it proudly, though the sun's caress
Her piteous cheeks, ravished of bloom, confess,
And her dark eyes his bridegroom glance have know.
Robed in her flowing parks, serene, alone,
She fronts the east; and with the tropic stress
Her smooth brow ripples into weariness;
Yet hers the sea for footstool, and for throne
A continent predestined. Round her trails
The turbid squalor of her streets, and dim
Into the dark heat-haze her domes flow up;
Her long lean fingers, with their grey-old nails,
Giving her thirsty lips to the cool brim
Of the bronze beauty of her harbour's cup

Poem Sydney

Arthur Henry Adams

Sydney Harbour Bridge over Sydney Harbour (Australia)

Seventy five years you have battled through 

All around you, a changing view 

And you’ve watched the Sydney skyline rise 

You’ve breathed the air of polluted skies 

Oh, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Happy Birthday 

Happy Birthday, Harbour Bridge. 

Happy Birthday Harbour Bridge 

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