Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CITY STREET IN SUMMER, by LOUIS GINSBERG First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate Last Line: Whence god is crying out! Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues | ||||||||
It stumbles, numbed and prostrate, Drugged with the sticky heat, This pounded city highway, This surging city-street. Perhaps in weary stupor, It dreams, but all in vain, To be a drowsy byway, A straggling country lane. To listen in the dawning, To listen, hearing long, A bird, that drips with sunset, Uncoil its colored song. . . . To feel again the fervor Of earth that leaps through roots To eloquence of blossoms And eloquence of fruits. Till lo, each wayside hedge is A torch that flares about -- A flaming bush of Beauty, Whence God is crying out! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHINATOWN BLUES by CLARENCE MAJOR KEEP DRIVING by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET by DAVID WAGONER ANGLOSAXON STREET by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A STEP AWAY FROM THEM by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) |
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