They lived away down 'cross the railroad track And everybody said that they were scum. They had no "family tree" and there was lack, No doubt, of any "culture"; they had come From common stock and not the slightest doubt -- They owned a squeaky car, a radio Whose raucous din would fairly drown you out.... Two so-called joys most poverty would know. But I have seen them walking hand in hand Upon the street as if the world were theirs; I stopped one night for fruit at Louie's stand Across from them, I glanced in unawares And I could see two urchins at her knee Saying their prayers -- that's all that I could see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LACHRYMATORY by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF DR. LLOYD (2) by VINCENT BOURNE THE PLACE OF FAME by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB HEAVEN AND EARTH by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING MONODY ON A LADY FAMED FOR HER CAPRICE by ROBERT BURNS CHILDISH RECOLLECTIONS by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |