See what a mass of gems the city wears 
Upon her broad live bosom! row on row 
Rubies and emeralds and amethysts glow. 
See! that huge circle like a necklace, stares 
With thousands of bold eyes to heaven, and dares 
The golden stars to dim the lamps below, 
And in the mirror of the mire I know 
The moon has left her image unawares. 

That's the great town at night: I see her breasts, 
Pricked out with lamps they stand like huge black towers. 
I think they move! I hear her panting breath. 
And that's her head where the tiara rests. 
And in her brain, through lanes as dark as death, 
Men creep like thoughts...The lamps are like pale flowers