Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT DAWN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cleansing night of stars and tides Last Line: Is wrought of human thunder, iron and blood? Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge | ||||||||
Out of the cleansing night of stars and tides, Building itself anew in the slow dawn, The long sea-city rises: night is gone, Day is not yet; still merciful, she hides Her summoning brow, and still the night-car glides Empty of faces; the night-watchmen yawn One to the other, and shiver and pass on, Nor yet a soul over the great bridge rides. Frail as a gossamer, a thing of air, A bow of shadow o'er the river flung, Its sleepy masts and lonely lapping flood; Who, seeing thus the bridge a-slumber there, Would dream such softness, like a picture hung, Is wrought of human thunder, iron and blood? | 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 BRIDGE by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS BROOKLYN, MY BROOKLYN by RHEINHART KLEINER 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 A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE AFTER THE WAR by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE |
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