Wuhan First Yangtze Bridge over the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei (China)

I often come here, the Hanyang Gate,

When I’m in deep despair
Having nowhere else to go
There're usually many people gathered
Under the bridge to watch the scene
Now as before, the big river flows east
The sound of the waves resonates in me
But few people can hear it

From the poem Spring Comes to Hangyang Gate

by Zhang Zhihao

Edward Rydz-Śmigły Marshall Bridge over the Vistula River in Wloclawek, Kuyavia (Poland)

One doesn't leave a soldier's grave with a broken soul. One doesn't leave with a sense of defeat and hopelessness, but with the unshakable conviction that a new spiritual value has emerged, a value not mine, not yours, but of us all—a value belonging to the entire nation. Their memory must endure and live on forever. In our schools, children should learn the names of those who died in their own community or town. This should be included in the curriculum and be the first lesson they learn about Poland...

Edward Rydz-Śmigły

Jacques Cartier Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec (Canada)

"The great river which flows through and waters the midst of these lands of yours, which is without comparison the largest river that is known to have ever been seen."

Jacques Cartier about St Lawrence River

Painting of the Railway Bridge over the Gaoping River between Kaoshiung and Pintung in Taiwan

Tailing the dusk
Quietly creeping up from behind to enfold me, wrap around me
An incomplete moon hangs lonely in the sky
Reflected in the reed-tangled bed of the stream
The surface of the stream as clear as the glass in a mirror
With now and then a floating wisp of white cloud
And the shadows of birds crying softly as they skim the water ….

From the poem Solitude

by taiwanese poet Chou Meng-tieh

DuSable Bridge or Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois (United States)

"Chicago would not be what it is today if it weren't for DuSable's decision to settle here at the site of this bridge. He is the founder of this city and his work jumpstarted a small trading post into a global metropolis"

Senator Dick Durbin

about renaming of Michigan Avenue bridge in 2010

Bridge over the Elbe River in Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)

Wir hier an der Elbe
Sind zu Haus am selben Fluss
Fahrn hinauf, hinab
Fahren hin und her
Und er weiß, wohin er fließen muss
Ins große Meer

We here on the Elbe 

Are at home on the same river 

Drive up, down 

Drive back and forth 

And he knows where to flow 

Into the big sea

Song by Rolf Zuckowski

Bridge crossing the Elbe River in Wittenberge, Brandenburg (Germany)

Wir hier an der Elbe Sind zu Haus am selben Fluss
Fahrn hinauf, hinab Fahren hin und her
Und er weiss, wohin er fliessen muss ins grosse Meer

We here on the Elbe. Are at home on the same river Drive up, down Drive back and forth 

And he knows where to flow into the big sea

Lyrics from Wir Hier an der Elbe

by Rolf Zuckowsk

Railway Bridge over the Pilchowice Lake near Strzyzowiec, Lower Silesia (Poland)

"Not everything old is a monument."

Pawel Lewandowski,

about the programmed blowing up

of this bridge for the film Mission Impossible 7.

Fujikawa Bridge over the Fuji River in the Shizuoka prefecture (Japan)

A summer river:

disdaining the bridge,

my horse gallops through water.

Masaoka Shiki 

Vivekananda Setu or Bally Bridge crossing the Hugli River in Calcutta (India)

Warm noon's joy spreads under the big leaved trees
Beyond the garden hedge,
The honeysuckle waves in the grey wind
On the wrought iron gate.

And in my eyes this lovely picture goes
With me as I fare along the lane.
Piano-notes, unmindful on the wind
Fill the spring sky with pain.
Along a lane in South Calcutta.

Poem by Amiya Chakravarty

Legions of Marshal Pisludski Bridge over the Vístula River in Plock, Mazovia (Poland)

Hey, long live our native tongue,
Our beautiful language,
Which, just like the eternal Wisła,
Flows from Kraków.

In a poem by Wladyslaw Lebinski

Pont Saint-Pierre over the Garonne River in Toulouse (France)

A force de regarder le ciel

nous faisons boiter

l'infini

qui ne s’arrête pas de marcher

comme un mendiant aveugle

La nuit lui donne parfois

sans nous

la monnaie d’une étoile

La beauté qui se perd

nous aime toujours

de nous

avoir perdu

Poeme from Serge Pey, 

poet from Toulouse

Mactan-Mandaue Bridge over the Mactan Channel between the Cebu Island and the Mactan Island (Philippines)

It is said in the Mactan Island that Lapu-Lapu, the chieftain who resist the spanish invader, did not die or that at least nobody ever saw him die and the islanders believe he has been turned into a stone and is forever guarding the seas of Mactan. Fishermen in the island city point to a stone shaped like a man in the deep and they throw coins at it as a way of asking permission to fish in the chieftain’s seas.

Legend of Mactan Island

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

"The Yangtze never runs backwards"

Chinese Proverb

Waibaidu Bridge crossing the Suzhou Creek in Shanghai (China)

Looking east, one could see the warehouses on the waterfront of Pootung like huge monsters crouching in the gloom, their lights twinkling like countless tiny eyes. To the west, one saw with a shock of wonder on the roof of a building a gigagntic neon sign in flaming red and phosphorescent green: LIGHT, HEAT, POWER.

View from Waidaibu Bridge
from the novel Minight by Mao Dun

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

Faidherbe Bridge across the Senegal River in Saint Louis (Senegal)

La Venise Africaine 

et son vieux pont Faidherbe

M'ont remis sur les pas 

des puissantes Signares

Ces métisses élégantes, 

voluptueuses, superbes

Hantent encore les balcons 

de leurs tendres regards.

Raymond Valcke

Bridge over the Puerco River near Alburquerque, New Mexico (United States)

Well if you ever plan to motor west

Just take my way that's the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66

Song by Rolling Stones

Railway Bridge over the Lafnitz Valley near Rohrbach, Oberösterreich (Austria)

Siluo Bridge over the Jhuoshuei River in Yunlin (Taiwan)