Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | London | | The Burden of London | | Henry Sewell Stokes (1808–1895) |
| | | LONDON! thou more than Tyre a thousand-fold, | |
| Who will take up the burden against thee? | |
| Wilt thou too fall, Queen City of the Sea? | |
| Will all the bullion thy vast coffers hold | |
| Under the Northern waves one day be rolled, | 5 |
| And from thee stand far off the merchant-ships | |
| As from that city in the Apocalypse? | |
| Art thou the mighty city there foretold? | |
| But what say these, so busy yet so proud, | |
| With the hard features of Ezekiel’s race, | 10 |
| Who, like their fathers in the Tyrian crowd, | |
| Mingle yet mix not, while their elders pace | |
| Back-streets with frowsy bags and guttural cry? | |
| Do they of worn-out England prophesy? | | | | |
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