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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: PITTSBURGH, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: A factory girl with smudges on her cheek Last Line: She cannot wholly free her hands of grime. Subject(s): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |||
A factory girl with smudges on her cheek And strong hands hardened with her daily toil Where furnaces flare forth and caldrons boil With white hot metal, and the steel shears shriek; This is no sheltered maiden, soft and meek, But one who dares the labor and the moil To change the ore and coal ripped from the soil Into the tools of progress that men seek. Yet she has softer hours when, silken clad, She seeks the lights and laughs the night away, Wasting her wages like a spendthrift glad, Avid of pleasure and of love and play; But though her beauty glows at such a time She cannot wholly free her hands of grime. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEARCHING FOR PITTSBURGH by JACK GILBERT PITTSBURGH by WILLIAM A. PHELON THE BRIDGE (PITTSBURGH) by BENNETT WEAVER LINES WRITEN IN A PITTSBURGH SKYSCRAPER by DIANE ACKERMAN RUMORED CONVERSATION WITH ONESELF CONTINUES IN PITTSBURGH by DIANE ACKERMAN PITTSBURGH by TERRANCE J. LAPPIN |
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