Nights in London

by Thomas Burke

CONTENTS

• [CITY DUSK]
• [NOTE]
• [Nocturnal]
  • [EVENING]
• [An Entertainment Night (Round the Halls)]
  • [MUSIC-HALL BALLET]
• [A Chinese Night (Limehouse)]
  • [AT LIMEHOUSE]
• [A Domestic Night (Clapham Common)]
  • [THE LAMPLIT HOUR]
• [A Lonely Night (Kingsland Road)]
  • [A LONELY NIGHT]
• [A Musical Night (The Opera, the Promenades)]
  • [AT THE PIANO]
• [A Jewish Night (Whitechapel)]
  • [LONDON ROSES]
• [A Happy Night (Surbiton and Battersea)]
  • [A SUBURBAN NIGHT]
• [A Worker's Night (The Isle of Dogs)]
  • [THE WORK CHILD]
• [A Charitable Night (East, West, North, South)]
  • [POOR]
• [A French Night (Old Compton Street)]
  • [OLD COMPTON STREET]
• [An Italian Night (Clerkenwell)]
  • [CLERKENWELL]
• [A Basher's Night (Hoxton)]
  • [LONDON JUNE]
• [A Down-Stream Night (Blackwall)]
  • [WEST INDIA DOCK ROAD]
• [An Art Night (Chelsea)]
  • [A LONDON MOMENT]
• [A Russian Night (Stepney)]
  • [STEPNEY CAUSEWAY]
• [A Scandinavian Night (Shadwell)]
  • [AT SHADWELL]
• [A Sunday Night (Anywhere)]
  • [SUNDAY TEA-TIME]
• [At Random]
  • [TWO IN A TAXI]

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NOCTURNAL

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EVENING

From the Circus to The Square

There's an avenue of light;

Golden lamps are everywhere

From the Circus to The Square;

And the rose-winged hours there

Pass like lovely birds in flight.

From The Circus to The Square

There's an avenue of light.

London yields herself to men

With the dying of the day.

Let the twilight come, and then

London yields herself to men.

Lords of wealth or slaves of pen,

We, her lovers, all will say:

London yields herself to men

With the dying of the day.

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