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. | | New York | | Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807–1898) |
| | (From My Native Land)
BUT see! the broadening river deeper flows, | |
| Its tribute floods intent to reach the sea, | |
| While, from the west, the fading sunlight throws | |
| Its softening hues on stream, and field, and tree; | |
| All silent nature bathing, wondrously, | 5 |
| In charms that soothe the heart with sweet desires, | |
| And thoughts of friends we ne’er again may see, | |
| Till lo! ahead, Manhatta’s bristling spires, | |
| Above her thousand roofs red with day’s dying fires, | |
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| May greet the wanderer of Columbia’s shore, | 10 |
| Proud Venice of the west! no lovelier scene. | |
| Of thy vast throngs now faintly comes the roar, | |
| Though late like beating ocean surf I ween,— | |
| And everywhere thy various barks are seen, | |
| Cleaving the limpid floods that round thee flow, | 15 |
| Encircled by thy banks of sunny green,— | |
| The panting steamer plying to and fro, | |
| Or the tall sea-bound ship abroad on wings of snow. | | | | |
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