Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUBWAY WIND, by CLAUDE MCKAY


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First Line: Far down, down through the city's great, gaunt gut
Last Line: And the trades float above them fresh and free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Subways


Far down, down through the city's great, gaunt gut
The grey train rushing bears the weary wind;
In the packed cars the fans the crowd's breath cut,
Leaving the sick and heavy air behind.
And pale-cheeked children seek the upper door
To give their summer jackets to the breeze;
Their laugh is swallowed in the deafening roar
Of captive wind that moans for fields and seas;
Seas cooling warm where native schooners drift
Through sleepy waters where gulls wheel and sweep,
Waiting for windy waves their keels to lift
Lightly among the islands of the deep;
Islands of lofty palm trees blooming white
That lend their perfume to the tropic sea,
Where fields lie idle in the dew-drenched night,
And the Trades float above them fresh and free.





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