Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE EMPIRE CITY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK


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THE EMPIRE CITY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air
Last Line: Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air
Her Babylonian towers, while on high
Like gilt-scaled serpents glide the swift trains by,
Or, underfoot, creep to their secret lair.
A thousand lights are jewels in her hair,
The sea her girdle, and her crown the sky,
Her life-blood throbs, the fevered pulses fly,
Immense, defiant breathless she stands there

And ever listens in the ceaseless din,
Waiting for him, her lover who shall come,
Whose singing lips shall boldly claim their own
And render sonant what in her was dumb:
The splendour and the madness and the sin,
Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone.





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