Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: NEW YORK, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth is carmine and her cheeks too red Last Line: Faith that endures and loyalty that stays! Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple | ||||||||
Her mouth is carmine, and her cheeks too red, Her eyes too bright and hard; her garb is smart, The product of sophisticated art From shoes to that confection on her head. Worship is daily food that she is fed, It thrills her not, nor seems to warm her heart, She takes her royal way through street and mart Brilliant, and proud, as to the purple bred. And so men say that she is hard as steel Not sensing that her paint, her calm disdain Are but the trappings of the rôle she plays, And that to lovers true she will reveal Love, comradeship, and sympathy to pain, Faith that endures and loyalty that stays! | 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 |
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