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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONTRAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poet's Biography
First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine
Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ...
Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life
First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine
Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ...
Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life
WITH ripples of blinding fire all Broadway wavered ashine,
And taxicabs streamed by like great black beetles in line,
When into my being she stepped,—she, like a goddess, aglow
In an exquisite clinging gown,—I, in my rags and woe!
Was she the mate of the thing brutish, bloated and old?—
I opened the taxi for them and into the night they rolled.
She touched my heart like a flower and made the world grow sweet:
He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ...
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