|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BROADWAY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poet's Biography
First Line: Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain
Last Line: Without salute the vessel of the lord.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City
First Line: Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain
Last Line: Without salute the vessel of the lord.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City
Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain
Of pearl and ruby in the women's hair.
And all the men—each drags a golden chain,
As though he walked in freedom. In the glare,
Luxurious-cushioned wheels a revel-train
Where kings of song with weary feet have trod,
Where Poe, sad priest to Beauty and to Pain,
Bore through the night the Vision and the God.
And yet, perhaps, in this assemblage vast,
In some poor heart sounds the enraptured chord,
And staggering homeward from a hopeless quest
The God-anointed touched me, meanly dressed,
And, like a second Peter, I have passed
Without salute the vessel of the Lord.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER
THE WHITE LIGHTS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE
SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER
A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN
A BALLAD OF ST. VITUS by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK