Nights in London
E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
First published in 1915 Popular Edition . 1918
CITY DUSK
The day dies in a wrath of cloud,
Flecking her roofs with pallid rain,
And dies its music, harsh and loud,
Struck from the tiresome strings of pain.
Her highways leap to festal bloom,
And swallow-swift the traffic skims
Thomas Burke
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NIGHTS IN LONDON
THOMAS BURKE
Author of "Limehouse Nights."
CONTENTS
NIGHTS IN LONDON
NOCTURNAL
ROUND THE HALLS
AN ENTERTAINMENT NIGHT
ROUND THE HALLS
LIMEHOUSE
A CHINESE NIGHT
LIMEHOUSE
CLAPHAM COMMON
A DOMESTIC NIGHT
CLAPHAM COMMON
KINGSLAND ROAD
A LONELY NIGHT
KINGSLAND ROAD
THE OPERA, THE PROMENADES
A MUSICAL NIGHT
THE OPERA, THE PROMENADES
WHITECHAPEL
A JEWISH NIGHT
WHITECHAPEL
SURBITON AND BATTERSEA
A HAPPY NIGHT
SURBITON AND BATTERSEA
THE ISLE OF DOGS
A WORKER'S NIGHT
THE ISLE OF DOGS
EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH
A CHARITABLE NIGHT
EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH
OLD COMPTON STREET
A FRENCH NIGHT
OLD COMPTON STREET
CLERKENWELL
AN ITALIAN NIGHT
CLERKENWELL
HOXTON
A BASHER'S NIGHT
HOXTON
BLACKWALL
A DOWN-STREAM NIGHT
BLACKWALL
CHELSEA
AN ART NIGHT
CHELSEA
SPITALFIELDS AND STEPNEY
A RUSSIAN NIGHT
SPITALFIELDS AND STEPNEY
SHADWELL
A SCANDINAVIAN NIGHT
SHADWELL
ANYWHERE
A SUNDAY NIGHT
ANYWHERE
AT RANDOM