Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: Black in the midnight lies the city vast Last Line: England's ideal life alone survives! Subject(s): England; London; Past; English | ||||||||
BLACK in the midnight lies the City vast. Its dim horizon from my window high I see shut in beneath a misty sky Red with the light a million lamp-fires cast Up from the humming streets. And now at last With lessening roar the weary wheels go by. At last in sleep all discords swoon and die. Now wakes the solemn visionary Past, Peopled with spirits of the mighty dead Whose names are London's glory and her shame -- Seers, poets, heroes, martyrs -- deathless lives Long blazoned in the chronicles of fame. The inglorious Present veils its dwarfish head. England's ideal life alone survives! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS STAYING UP FOR ENGLAND by LIAM RECTOR STONE AND FLOWER by KENNETH REXROTH THE HANGED MAN by KENNETH REXROTH ENGLISH TRAIN COMPARTMENT by JOHN UPDIKE CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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