Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Last Line: To broadway as a country road. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History | ||||||||
No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Disturbed the peaceful summer days That shone as now upon the street That knows our busy noisy ways. And blushing girls and awkward jays Strolled slowly home, and cattle lowed As fell the purple twilight haze, When Broadway was a country road. No tailored dandies, trim and neat; No damsels of the latest craze Of form and fashion; no conceit To catch the fancy or amaze, No buildings met the skyward gaze; Nor myriad lights that nightly glowed To set the midnight hour ablaze When Broadway was a country road. Then shady lanes with blossoms sweet Led gently down to quiet bays Or to the sheltered, hedged retreat Some falling mansion now betrays. The stage-coach here no longer pays Its daily call, nor farmer's goad Their oxen, as in olden days When Broadway was a country road. Little indeed to meet the praise Of modern times the picture showed. And yet the fancy fondly strays To Broadway as a country road. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD OSAWATOMIE by CARL SANDBURG THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by HARRY MACARTHY LEE'S PAROLE by MARION MANVILLE THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS by MARION MANVILLE THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR by THOMAS MCGRATH A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR by HERMAN MELVILLE A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE CITY VIGNETTE: RAIN AT NIGHT by SARA TEASDALE |
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