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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APRIL, FR. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 41. TO THE 'UNKNOWABLE' GOD by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE ARCIERI OF MICHELANGELO by WILLIAM ROSE BENET IT IS FINISHED by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR AN ORIENTAL BALLAD by BERTON BRALEY AN OLD UMBRELLA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |