Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poet's Biography First Line: No lifeless thing of iron and stone Last Line: The rock respects your stable towers. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge | ||||||||
No lifeless thing of iron and stone, But sentient, as her children are, Nature accepts you for her own, Kin to the cataract and the star. She marks your vast, sufficing plan, Cable and girder, bolt and rod, And takes you, from the hand of man, For some new handiwork of God. You thrill through all your chords of steer Responsive to the living sun; And quickening in your nerves you feel Life with its conscious currents run. Your anchorage upbears the march Of time and the eternal powers. The sky admits your perfect arch, The rock respects your stable towers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE by HAROLD HART CRANE THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE [MAY 24, 1883] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR BROOKLYN, MY BROOKLYN by RHEINHART KLEINER BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT DAWN by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE NEW YORK DAYS by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD OF BEING NUMEROUS, 5 by GEORGE OPPEN BROOKLYN BRIDGE by CLINTON SCOLLARD BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED) by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND BROOKLYN BRIDGE by W. A. FAHEY CANADA by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS |
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