Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DELICIAE NOVI EBORACI, 1839, by JEDEDIAH VINCENT HUNTINGTON First Line: With much the soul that fetters and degrades Last Line: Of masts and spars their blackened lines relieve. Subject(s): Battery Park, New York; New York City - 19th Century | ||||||||
I With much the soul that fetters and degrades, In thee, Manhatta! yet are some things seen, That lift to joy and love thy citizen. Refreshing as a dream of forest glades, Not seldom meets his eye whom business jades, In the brick desert an oasis green. St. Luke's low tower has yet its rural screen; St. John's its thick and rose-besprinkled shades; And many spots and sights as fair there be. But one fair sight is prized above the rest; Beheld, when, loitering home at sun-down, we Have frequent glimpses of the crimson west, Tinging the woody shores and glittering breast Of kingly Hudson passing to the sea. II With step that times the pulse's languid beats, Forth to the Battery at the cool of day, Forth to the wave-washed Battery we stray, Glad to exchange the city's central heats, And scorching pavements of unshaded streets, For long and gravelled walks, where children play, And the pure breeze, fresh-blowing from the bay, Rifles the perfumed bosom of its sweets. Thence, "loitering home at sun-down," we perceive, Bright streaming up each vistaed street we pass, A flush, from western skies by purple eve Suffused, and from the river smooth as glass, 'Gainst which, and 'gainst the sky, a tangled mass Of masts and spars their blackened lines relieve. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRONX, 1818 by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE ODE TO FORTUNE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK MANHATTAN ARMING by WALT WHITMAN FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER CITY LYRICS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS TWO WOMEN by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878 by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. EMPORIUM VERSUS NEW YORK, 1854 by JACOB BIGELOW |
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