greykit.poetry — #city
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1928
[robert-frost]
Acquainted with the Night
A terza rima walk past the watchman and the saddest city lane, stopping at an interrupted cry that was not for him, under a luminary clock that proclaims the time neither wrong nor right.
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1914
[carl-sandburg]
Chicago
Hog Butcher for the World — the charges of wickedness, crookedness and brutality are all admitted, and then thrown back as a boast: a tall bold slugger laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth.
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1807
[william-wordsworth]
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803
Standing on Westminster Bridge at dawn, Wordsworth finds London more beautiful than any natural scene — the city lying open to sky and fields in smokeless morning calm.