History & Politics

Resurge San Francisco

by Joaquin Miller 1841–1913

From Poems of American History (1908)

History & Politics

Behold her Seven Hills loom white
Once more as marble-builded Rome.
Her marts teem with a touch of home
And music fills her halls at night;
Her streets flow populous, and light
Floods every happy, hopeful face;
The wheel of fortune whirls apace
And old-time fare and dare hold sway.
Farewell the blackened, toppling wall,
The bent steel gird, the sombre pall--
Farewell forever, let us pray;
Farewell, forever and a day!

MLA

Miller, Joaquin. “Resurge San Francisco.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/miller_j/9/.

Chicago

Miller, Joaquin. “Resurge San Francisco.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/miller_j/9/.

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