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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 1. BROADWAY, 103RD TO 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Lights foam and bubble down the gentle grade
Last Line: To pour in gathering torrent through the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City
First Line: Lights foam and bubble down the gentle grade
Last Line: To pour in gathering torrent through the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City
LIGHTS foam and bubble down the gentle grade:
Bright shine chop sueys and rotisseries;
In pink translucence glowingly displayed
See camisole and stocking and chemise.
Delicatessen windows full of cheese --
Above, the chimes of church-bells toll and fade --
And then, from off some distant Palisade
That gluey savor on the Jersey breeze!
The burning bulbs, in green and white and red,
Spell out a Change of Program Sun., Wed., Fri.,
A clicking taxi spins with ruby spark.
There is a sense of poising near the head
Of some great flume of brightness, flowing by
To pour in gathering torrent through the dark.
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