文章基本信息

标题：London at Night.
作者：Nicola, James B.
期刊名称：The Upstart Crow
印刷版ISSN：0886-2168
出版年度：2006
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Clemson University, Clemson University Digital Press, Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing

摘要：

 LONDON AT NIGHT     Underlit, spires as stones of souls appear,    invite with their macabre imperiousness.    Though height forbids, the glow haunts, and the air    would have us swim in her mysteriousness.    Fleet smooth-scored twinkles giggle in the Thames    meandering snake-scale ripples of a tease.    Redoubling, they cast all as sparkling gems    susurrous in the tickle of a breeze.     While gilded bridges snore and span her ages    a Tower looms with terrible delight.    The eerie stumps of sundry ghosts mark stages    of empire that once was, that shines tonight    as children's dreams' theme-park assemblages    from granddads' scattered senile tales of might.

London at Night.

Nicola, James B.

LONDON AT NIGHT

   Underlit, spires as stones of souls appear,
   invite with their macabre imperiousness.
   Though height forbids, the glow haunts, and the air
   would have us swim in her mysteriousness.
   Fleet smooth-scored twinkles giggle in the Thames
   meandering snake-scale ripples of a tease.
   Redoubling, they cast all as sparkling gems
   susurrous in the tickle of a breeze.

   While gilded bridges snore and span her ages
   a Tower looms with terrible delight.
   The eerie stumps of sundry ghosts mark stages
   of empire that once was, that shines tonight
   as children's dreams' theme-park assemblages
   from granddads' scattered senile tales of might.