LIGHTS foam and bubble down the gentle grade: Bright shine chop sueys and rotisseries; In pink translucence glowingly displayed See camisole and stocking and chemise. Delicatessen windows full of cheese -- Above, the chimes of church-bells toll and fade -- And then, from off some distant Palisade That gluey savor on the Jersey breeze! The burning bulbs, in green and white and red, Spell out a @3Change of Program Sun., Wed., Fri.,@1 A clicking taxi spins with ruby spark. There is a sense of poising near the head Of some great flume of brightness, flowing by To pour in gathering torrent through the dark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ISN'T IT ROMANTIC by KAREN SWENSON THE ROSE-BUD; TO A YOUNG LADY by WILLIAM BROOME EPIGRAM: 59. ON SPIES by BEN JONSON THE WANING MOON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY MEMORY'S VISIT by DEAN ALETTA BAILLIE TO MADEMOISELLE by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER THE WARTONS AND OTHER EARLY ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE-POETS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |