New York Nocturnes, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Canadian poet and prose writer Sir Charles G.D. Roberts. This volume starts with a series of poems on New York City, and then includes some other poems on miscellaneous subjects. The poems of the "Father of Canadian Poetry" will be enjoyed by all modern listeners who are fans of New York.

By : Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 - 1943)

01 - The Ideal 02 - In the Crowd 03 - Night in a Down-town Street 04 - At the Railway Station 05 - Nocturnes of the Honeysuckle, I 06 - Nocturnes of the Honeysuckle, II 07 - My Garden 08 - Presence 09 - Twilight on Sixth Avenue 10 - The Street Lamps 11 - In Darkness 12 - In the Solitude of the City 13 - A Nocturne of Exile 14 - A Street Vigil 15 - A Nocturne of Trysting 16 - In a City Room 17 - A Nocturne of Consecration 18 - An Evening Communion 19 - Life and Art 20 - Beyond the Tops of Time 21 - Dream-Fellows 22 - The Atlantic Cable 23 - When the Clover Blooms Again 24 - At Tide Water 25 - The Falling Leaves 26 - Marjory 27 - The Solitary Woodsman 28 - The Stirrup Cup 29 - Ice 30 - The Hermit 31 - 'O Thou who bidd’st' 32 - Ascription

The Ideal

To Her, when life was little worth,

When hope, a tide run low,

Between dim shores of emptiness

Almost forgot to flow,—

Faint with the city’s fume and stress

I came at night to Her.

Her cool white fingers on my face—

How wonderful they were!

More dear they were to fevered lids

Than lilies cooled in dew.

They touched my lips with tenderness,

Till life was born anew.

The city’s clamour died in calm;

And once again I heard

The moon-white woodland stillnesses

Enchanted by a bird;

The wash of far, remembered waves;

The sigh of lapsing streams;

And one old garden’s lilac leaves

Conferring in their dreams.

A breath from childhood daisy fields

Came back to me again,

Here in the city’s weary miles

Of city-wearied men.