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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: QUESTIONS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER First Line: Where in the crowds that blunder through the street Last Line: Make even blind men serve her high desire? Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple | |||
Where in the crowds that blunder through the street From dawn to dark with faces tensely blind, Are men so wonderfully swift of mind That they could dream this city, -- all complete In brave, unfinished beauty that upsprings Into a hundred towers, cleaving light From purple shadow and against the night Thrusting long shafts that shine like spears of kings? These that push past me dully, scarcely seem To see its keen-edged beauty. Can there, then, Burrow among the mass the very men Who shaped the glory of this splendid dream? Or does great Beauty, moved to strange satire, Make even blind men serve her high desire? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...READY FOR THE CANNERY by BERTON BRALEY TRANTER IN AMERICA by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV ON 52ND STREET by PHILIP LEVINE THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK by JOSEPHINE MILES NEW YORK SUBWAY by HILDA MORLEY SONNET FROM JAPAN: 1. THE SPELL by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER SONNET FROM JAPAN: 2. THE SHRINE OF THE PILGRIM SANDALS by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER |
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