Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: New York, the City, N. Y. | | The City of Ships | | Walt Whitman (1819–1892) |
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CITY of ships! | |
| (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! | |
| O the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!) | |
| City of the world! (for all races are here; | |
| All the lands of the earth make contributions here;) | 5 |
| City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides! | |
| City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out, with eddies and foam! | |
| City of wharves and stores! city of tall façades of marble and iron! | |
| Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city! * * * * * | | | | |
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