Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poet's Biography First Line: Enormously it lifts Last Line: Circles and flows the restless human tide. Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York | ||||||||
Enormously it lifts Its towers against the splendour of the west; Like some wild dream that drifts Before the mind, and at the will's behest, Enchantment-based, gigantic steel and stone, Is given permanence; A concrete fact, Complete, alone, Glorious, immense, Such as no nation here on earth has known: Epitomizing all That is American, that stands for youth, And strength and truth; That's individual, And beautiful and free, Resistless strength and tireless energy. Even as a cataract, Its superb fact Suggests vast forces Nature builds withJoy, And Power and Thought, She to her aid has brought For eons past, will bring for eons yet to be, Shaping the world to her desire: the three Her counsellors constantly, Her architects, through whom her dreams come true, Her workmen, bringing forth, With toil that shall not cease, Mountains and plains and seas, That make the Earth the glory that it is: And, one with these, Such works of man as this, This building, towering into the blue, A beacon, round which like an ocean wide, Circles and flows the restless human tide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS WOOLWORTH BUILDING by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN KU KLUX by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A COIGN OF THE FOREST by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A DREAM SHAPE by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A FALLEN BEECH by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A FLOWER OF THE FIELDS by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A NIGHT IN JUNE by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A SLEET-STORM IN MAY by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN A TWILIGHT MOTH by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |
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