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THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 1. BROADWAY, 103RD TO 96TH by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: LIGHTS FOAM AND BUBBLE DOWN THE GENTLE GRADE
Last Line: TO POUR IN GATHERING TORRENT THROUGH THE DARK.
Subject(s): BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY;

LIGHTS foam and bubble down the gentle grade:
Bright shine chop sueys and rotisseries;
In pink translucence glowingly displayed
See camisole and stocking and chemise.
Delicatessen windows full of cheese --
Above, the chimes of church-bells toll and fade --
And then, from off some distant Palisade
That gluey savor on the Jersey breeze!

The burning bulbs, in green and white and red,
Spell out a @3Change of Program Sun., Wed., Fri.,@1
A clicking taxi spins with ruby spark.
There is a sense of poising near the head
Of some great flume of brightness, flowing by
To pour in gathering torrent through the dark.



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