Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world. Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City | ||||||||
STRAIT river, with its hoarse and feverous flood Of money-makers; on that turbulent tide Hourly men sink, or bring their argosies To unhoped havens. On that tiny stage The day-dream of the dollar is played out In tragic throes that shake the land; there gold Is God, the devotees are hollow-eyed. A touch brings London; at a mystic word The tropics tremble; while an unpraised hand Withers broad grain-fields lovely in the sun A thousand leagues away. Meanwhile, the spire Of Trinity, as set in satire there, Points with insistent finger to the skies Placid above this lust of loss-and-gain, And underneath, the aisles of peace and prayer Await the worshipers who still would place Christ above Mammon, love before the world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN by MARGE PIERCY PAN IN WALL STREET by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN THE CURB-BROKERS by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET by ARTHUR GUITERMAN LOEW'S BRIDGE: A BROADWAY IDYL by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT A FAUN IN WALL STREET by JOHN MYERS O'HARA WALL STREET WAIL by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE CRASH; OCTOBER, 1987, WALL STREET by JONATHAN HOLDEN SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN by MARGE PIERCY BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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