Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ISAAK WALTON IN MAIDEN LANE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poet's Biography First Line: In that manhattan alley long yclept Last Line: Thine image, isaak, pored upon a bream. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Maiden Lane, New York City; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) | ||||||||
In that Manhattan alley long yclept, With gentle olden music, Maiden Lane, Where sick and sad-eyed Traffic scarce has slept Even at midnight, in her lust for gain, Rolling in restive pain Through the stern vigil of a century, There, mid the din of harsh reality The newsboy's shriek, car's clang and huckster's chaff, The cobble's roar, and the loud drayman's laugh, And the dull stare, The inhuman, haunted glare Of the facesthe grey faces Of Mammon's stark-mad races, Sordid and slattern, Modish and tattern, Loveless in their misery There, in the midst of all, Seated upon a stall, Musing on meadows, Isaak, I met thee! How my heart stopped for too much happiness, To meet thee there in that maelstrom of men, Benignant, wise and calm! Ah, gently then Came back, in fancy's dress, All that of old was sweet, Serene and fair, to grace the garish street. Musing on meadows now in Maiden Lane, The turbid current surging at my side Became the flow of Thames' sequestered tide, The newsboy's cry waned to a curlew's call, The jangling pedlar tended tinkling sheep Along green hedgerows; even the drayman's brawl Sweetened to an old soliloquy, till all That strident world has chastened to a sleep Where, in a twilit eddy of my dream, Thine image, Isaak, pored upon a bream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 5. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH CONTENTATION; DIRECTED TO IZAAK WALTON by CHARLES COTTON TO MY DEAR AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND, MR. IZAAK WALTON by CHARLES COTTON TO MY OLD AND MOST WORTHY FRIEND MR. IZAAK WALTON, ON LIFE OF DONNE by CHARLES COTTON FOR A COPY OF 'THE COMPLEAT ANGLER' by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH A COPY OF WALTON'S LIVES by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON TO MY WORTHY FRIEND MR. ISAAC WALTON ON THE PUBLICATION OF THEALMA by THOMAS FLATMAN FOR IZAAK WALTON by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR A CHILD AT THE WICKET by PERCY MACKAYE |
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