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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GET UP, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Recitation by Author Poet's Biography
First Line: Get up!' the caller calls, 'get up'
Last Line: I may not ope again.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
First Line: Get up!' the caller calls, 'get up'
Last Line: I may not ope again.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers
'Get up!' the caller calls, 'Get up!'
And in the dead of night,
To win the bairns their bite and sup,
I rise a weary wight.
My flannel dudden donn'd, thrice o'er
My birds are kiss'd, and then
I with a whistle shut the door,
I may not ope again.
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