Poems About New York Home Poems Poem Themes Poems About America Poems About New York Table of Contents New York by Richard Hovey Brooklyn Bridge by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts Autumn Dusk in Central Park by Evelyn Scott Sunset: Battery Park by Evelyn Scott Evening: New York by Sara Teasdale The Lights of New York by Sara Teasdale From Brooklyn by Evelyn Scott The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus New York by Richard Hovey The low line of the walls that lie outspread Miles on long miles, the fog and smoke and slime, The wharves and ships with flags of every clime, The domes and steeples rising overhead! it is not these. Rather it is the tread Of the million heavy feet that keep sad time To heavy thoughts, the want that mothers crime, The weary toiling for a bitter bread, The perishing of poets for renown, The shriek of shame from the concealing waves. Ah, me ! how many heart-beats day by day Go to make up the life of the vast town! O myriad dead in unremembered graves! O torrent of the living down Broadway! Memorize Poem Brooklyn Bridge by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts ►▼ Full Text No lifeless thing of iron and stone, But sentient, as her children are, Nature accepts you for her own, Kin to the cataract and the star. She marks your vast, sufficing plan, Cable and girder, bolt and rod, And takes you, from the hand of man, As some new handiwork of God. You thrill through all your chords of steel Responsive to the living sun, And quickening in your nerves you feel Life with its conscious currents run. Your anchorage upbears the march Of time and the eternal powers. The sky admits your perfect arch. The rock respects your stable towers. Memorize Poem Autumn Dusk in Central Park by Evelyn Scott ►▼ Full Text Featureless people glide with dim motion through a quivering blue silver; Boats merge with the bronze-gold welters about their keels. The trees float upward in gray and green flames. Clouds, swans, boats, trees, all gliding up a hillside After some gray old women who lift their gaunt forms From falling shrouds of leaves. Thin fingered twigs clutch darkly at nothing. Crackling skeletons shine. Along the smutted horizon of Fifth Avenue The hooded houses watch heavily With oily gold eyes. Memorize Poem Evening: New York by Sara Teasdale Blue dust of evening over my city, Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads, Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. Memorize Poem The Lights of New York by Sara Teasdale The lightning spun your garment for the night Of silver filaments with fire shot thru, A broidery of lamps that lit for you The steadfast splendor of enduring light. The moon drifts dimly in the heaven's height, Watching with wonder how the earth she knew That lay so long wrapped deep in dark and dew, Should wear upon her breast a star so white. The festivals of Babylon were dark With flaring flambeaux that the wind blew down; The Saturnalia were a wild boy's lark With rain-quenched torches dripping thru the town— But you have found a god and filched from him A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim. Memorize Poem Sunset: Battery Park by Evelyn Scott From cliffs of houses, Sunlit windows gaze down upon me Like undeniable eyes, Millions of bronze eyes, Unassailable, Obliterating all they see: The warm contiguous crowd in the street below Chills, Mists, Drifts past those hungry eyes of Eternity, Melts seaward and deathward To the ocean. Memorize Poem From Brooklyn by Evelyn Scott ►▼ Full Text Along the shore A black net of branches Tangles the pulpy yellow lamps. The shell-colored sky is lustrous with the fading sun. Across the river Manhattan floats— Dim gardens of fire— And rushing invisible toward me through the fog, A hurricane of faces. Memorize Poem The New Colossus Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the Worldby Edward Moran, 1886 Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 to raise funds for the Statue of Liberty (completed in 1886), the poem was later engraved on the lower pedastal of the statue in 1903. The statue written about by Lazarus would become one of the most famous symbols of freedom in America, especially significant to immigrants just arriving at New York Harbor and beholding this "land of the free" for the first time. Full Text: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Memorize Poem Related Poems Poems About Pennsylvania Poems About New Jersey Poems About Connecticut Poems About Massachusetts Poems About Vermont Poems About New Jersey Poems About Ships Poems About People City Poems
New York by Richard Hovey The low line of the walls that lie outspread Miles on long miles, the fog and smoke and slime, The wharves and ships with flags of every clime, The domes and steeples rising overhead! it is not these. Rather it is the tread Of the million heavy feet that keep sad time To heavy thoughts, the want that mothers crime, The weary toiling for a bitter bread, The perishing of poets for renown, The shriek of shame from the concealing waves. Ah, me ! how many heart-beats day by day Go to make up the life of the vast town! O myriad dead in unremembered graves! O torrent of the living down Broadway! Memorize Poem
Brooklyn Bridge by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts ►▼ Full Text No lifeless thing of iron and stone, But sentient, as her children are, Nature accepts you for her own, Kin to the cataract and the star. She marks your vast, sufficing plan, Cable and girder, bolt and rod, And takes you, from the hand of man, As some new handiwork of God. You thrill through all your chords of steel Responsive to the living sun, And quickening in your nerves you feel Life with its conscious currents run. Your anchorage upbears the march Of time and the eternal powers. The sky admits your perfect arch. The rock respects your stable towers. Memorize Poem
Autumn Dusk in Central Park by Evelyn Scott ►▼ Full Text Featureless people glide with dim motion through a quivering blue silver; Boats merge with the bronze-gold welters about their keels. The trees float upward in gray and green flames. Clouds, swans, boats, trees, all gliding up a hillside After some gray old women who lift their gaunt forms From falling shrouds of leaves. Thin fingered twigs clutch darkly at nothing. Crackling skeletons shine. Along the smutted horizon of Fifth Avenue The hooded houses watch heavily With oily gold eyes. Memorize Poem
Evening: New York by Sara Teasdale Blue dust of evening over my city, Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads, Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. Memorize Poem
The Lights of New York by Sara Teasdale The lightning spun your garment for the night Of silver filaments with fire shot thru, A broidery of lamps that lit for you The steadfast splendor of enduring light. The moon drifts dimly in the heaven's height, Watching with wonder how the earth she knew That lay so long wrapped deep in dark and dew, Should wear upon her breast a star so white. The festivals of Babylon were dark With flaring flambeaux that the wind blew down; The Saturnalia were a wild boy's lark With rain-quenched torches dripping thru the town— But you have found a god and filched from him A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim. Memorize Poem
Sunset: Battery Park by Evelyn Scott From cliffs of houses, Sunlit windows gaze down upon me Like undeniable eyes, Millions of bronze eyes, Unassailable, Obliterating all they see: The warm contiguous crowd in the street below Chills, Mists, Drifts past those hungry eyes of Eternity, Melts seaward and deathward To the ocean. Memorize Poem
From Brooklyn by Evelyn Scott ►▼ Full Text Along the shore A black net of branches Tangles the pulpy yellow lamps. The shell-colored sky is lustrous with the fading sun. Across the river Manhattan floats— Dim gardens of fire— And rushing invisible toward me through the fog, A hurricane of faces. Memorize Poem
The New Colossus Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the Worldby Edward Moran, 1886 Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 to raise funds for the Statue of Liberty (completed in 1886), the poem was later engraved on the lower pedastal of the statue in 1903. The statue written about by Lazarus would become one of the most famous symbols of freedom in America, especially significant to immigrants just arriving at New York Harbor and beholding this "land of the free" for the first time. Full Text: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Memorize Poem