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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW YORK HARBOR, by PARK BENJAMIN Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds
Last Line: Jar the deep stillness and dissolve the spell!
Subject(s): New York Harbor; Paintings & Painters
First Line: Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds
Last Line: Jar the deep stillness and dissolve the spell!
Subject(s): New York Harbor; Paintings & Painters
Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds
Which on the sky so movelessly repose?
Has some rare artist fashioned forth the shrouds
Of yonder vessel? Are these imaged shows
Of outline, figure, form, or is there life—
Life with a thousand pulses—in the scene
We gaze upon, those towering banks between,
Ere tossed these billows in tumultuous strife?
Billows! there's not a wave! the waters spread
One broad, unbroken mirror! all around
Is hushed to silence,—silence so profound
That a bird's carol, or an arrow sped
Into the distance, would, like larum bell,
Jar the deep stillness and dissolve the spell!
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