Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND


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BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother! Are you waiting
Last Line: Is the charioteer!
Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


BRONTÉS

Brother! are you waiting
Faithfully for me?
Stand fast and at last
I'll reach my hair to thee.
Though of vacant sight,
Blindly we are feeling
Tow'rd each other, till the light,
Through our sockets stealing
O'er the stream, in one beam
Shall meet, and see!

ARGÉS

Brother! I am listening
To the words you say,
As they reach me, whistling
Across the windy bay.
Though my feet are cold,
And they long divide us,
Here I'll hold till I am old;
Our echoes shall provide us
On bounding feet a pathway fleet,
Till we behold!

BRONTÉS

Like two gates asunder
Something swings between.
On our heads the thunder
Strikes. We stand serene!
Earliest on our brows,
Still the latest tarry
The rosy clouds; the birds in crowds
Sail round to see us marry.
We will win, though, my twin,
Waves intervene.

ARGÉS

Hark, behind! the churches
Faintly lift their bells.
And far below come and go
The city's hollow swells;
Frightened ferry fleets
Disappear in vapour,
And the camps of twinkling lamps
Struggle for a taper.
To them all, starry tall,
We are sentinels!

BRONTÉS

Aye! I cannot see them,
Yet I feel them there;
And clambering stars their silver bars
Wind o'er me like a stair.
Brother, does a pulse
Start not in thy shoulder,
For a mystic destiny,—
Something better, bolder,—
When the rainbow its skein
Twineth in air?

ARGÉS

Yes! A host of spirits
In procession creep
O'er me silently,
From darkened deeps of sleep.
Far away I hear
Wheels imperious driven
Up the heights of the atmosphere,
By the image of Heaven!
His path we span, and, brother! Man
Is the charioteer!





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