| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917. | | | | New York in Sunset | | By William Ellery Leonard |
| | | THE ISLAND city of dominion stands, | |
| Crowned with all turrets, o’er the waters’ crest, | |
| Throned, like the bright Cybéle of the West, | |
| And hailed with cymbals in a million hands | |
| Around here; yet serenely she commands | 5 |
| The inland vision and the ocean quest, | |
| The new-born mistress of the world’s unrest, | |
| The beauty and the terror of the lands. | |
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| She sees the fields of harvest sown for her, | |
| She sees the fortress set beside her gate, | 10 |
| Her hosts, her ships, she sees through storm and fire; | |
| And hers all gifts of gold and spice and myrrh, | |
| And hers all hopes, all hills and shores of fate, | |
| And hers the fame of Babylon and Tyre. | | | | |
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