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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CITY STREET IN SUMMER, by LOUIS GINSBERG
First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate
Last Line: Whence god is crying out!
Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues
First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate
Last Line: Whence god is crying out!
Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues
It stumbles, numbed and prostrate,
Drugged with the sticky heat,
This pounded city highway,
This surging city-street.
Perhaps in weary stupor,
It dreams, but all in vain,
To be a drowsy byway,
A straggling country lane.
To listen in the dawning,
To listen, hearing long,
A bird, that drips with sunset,
Uncoil its colored song. . . .
To feel again the fervor
Of earth that leaps through roots
To eloquence of blossoms
And eloquence of fruits.
Till lo, each wayside hedge is
A torch that flares about --
A flaming bush of Beauty,
Whence God is crying out!
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