A city is a giant sound, A great continuous groan of power, The terrible voice of mightiness Enjoying its Babylonian hour. How easily we might forget Life has another softer key Had we no sparrows in our parks To intimate tranquillity! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLACK RIDERS: 1 by STEPHEN CRANE HUMPTY DUMPTY RECITATION [OR, SONG] by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON TORTOISE SHELL by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE ON AN OLD MUFF by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON MARIA MINOR by MARGARET AVISON GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME by JANE BARLOW |