Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVICTION, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poet's Biography First Line: Long years their cabin stood Last Line: Where are the rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants | ||||||||
LONG years their cabin stood Out on the moor; More than one sorrow-brood Pass'd through their door; Ruin them over-cast, Worse than one wintry blast; Famine's plague follow'd fast: God help the poor! There on that heap of fern, Gasping for breath, Lieth the wretched kern, Waiting for death: Famine had brought him low; Fever had caught him so, -- O thou sharp-grinding woe, Outwear thy sheath! Dying, or living here -- Which is the worse? Misery's heavy tear, Back to thy source! Who dares to lift her head Up from the scarcely dead? Who pulls the crazy shed Down on the corse? What though some rent was due, Hast thou no grace? So may God pardon you, Shame of your race! What though that home may be Wretched and foul to see, What if God harry thee Forth from His face? Widow'd and orphan'd ones, Flung from your rest! Where will you lay your bones? Bad was your best. Out on the dreary road, Where shall be their abode? One of them sleeps with God: Where are the rest? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VACATING AN APARTMENT by AGHA SHAHID ALI BALLAD OF THE LANDLORD by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK by KAREN SWENSON THE LAST LANDLORD by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 2. FINLAY by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE HEATHER ON FIRE by MATHILDE BLIND EPICUREAN by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON A THRENODY: IN MEMORY OF ALBERT DARASZ, SELECTION by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON |
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