Who says that Eagle Rock was not well named Has never thither climbed, nor, raptured, strayed Along its floor, by jutting rock upstayed! An eagle-spirit bides there, all untamed As in those days when none fee-simple claimed, But flowing forests its dark sides arrayed. Still giant trees make there a colonnade And gothic windows, where great skies are framed. Go, on a summer afternoon, and gaze -- Far eastward, on one glamorous view of all, Where, like a dream of lost and golden days, Or like mirage of shimmering tower and wall, @3New York@1 across grey waters pictured lies -- Luminous, hushed, a city of the skies! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS [JANUARY 8, 1815] by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH SONNET: 110 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ADESTE FIDELES by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX A SONNET FOR THE EARTH by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH IDOLS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |