Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple | ||||||||
The whistles blow and through the city street The motor pack in deep, full-throated cry Hunts down an unreturning year. The View Halloo in savage, tom-tom beat Drifts from the night club and the sigh And moan Of saxophone Assault my ear. In locked embrace the dancers sway, and croon A torchsong to the air of Auld Lang Syne And, thumb to nose, in wine as flat As life, salute the New Year's honeymoon. Oh, strange oblation to a newborn shrine! Dry gin, Synthetic grin And a paper hat! Across the years I meet your answering look And all the pagan din is strangely still. The music's blatant, negroid score Dreams to the murmur of an ice-bound brook The close room mists into a moon-white hill Through firelight's glow On drifted snow The New Year enters at a cottage door. | 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 HAINES' CORNERS by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER |
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