The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow (George Crabbe Poems)
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
I stood in the street in the noontide, precisely at midday time,For the loud-mouthed bells of the G.P.O. had that ...
There's a fellow on the station(He dropped in on a call,Just casual-to stay a pleasant week),He's a banker's near relation,Strongly ...
We can claim without elation or immodest fabricationThat the genius of our nation is embodied in our camps,And futurity's summation ...
When I was young, said old George Jones (And rumbling from his bearded lips,His deep voice boomed in measured tones) ...
Why in this sunny land of goldRich soil and wealth containing,Should we from day to day beholdThe unemployed complaining? What ...
They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own That want is here a stranger, and that ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
You waste the attention of your eyes, the glittering labour of your hands, and knead the dough enough for dozens ...
upon the Unemployed Tom-garlanded with squat and surly steel Tom; then Tom's fallowbootfellow piles pick By him and rips out ...
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
What's in a song John (or is it 'Knuckles'), what's in a song about an unemployed, suicidal bum, caught in ...
AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED It is considered low to talk about food. The fact is: they have Already eaten. The ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
It's grand to be a squatter And sit upon a post, And watch your little ewes and lambs A-giving up ...
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead, And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled, To sing ...
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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