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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VISTAS OF LABOR: 3. IN A SWEATSHOP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Pent in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Last Line: That on the morrow they must meet again. Subject(s): God; Home; Justice; Sin; Soul; Sweatshops; Sweating System | |||
PENT in, and sickening for one wholesome draught Of air, -- God's gift that cities sell so dear, -- They stitch and stitch. The dim lights fall upon Their bodies, hollowed bosoms and dead eyes. Their very mirth is horrible to hear, It is so joyless! Every needle-stroke Knits into dainty fabrics that shall go Where Fashion flaunts, the protest and the pain Of ravaged lives, of souls denied their food. At last the clock-stroke! From the beetling shop The prisoners file, and up and down the street Scatter to hutches humorists call Home, To sin, to die, or, if it may be, clutch Some pleasure fierce enough to drown the thought That on the morrow they must meet again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SWEATSHOP POEM by EDWARD HIRSCH SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON GOD'S GARDEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE FOREFATHER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE POLAR QUEST by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A BALLAD OF KINSMEN by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A CATCH by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A CHOPIN PRELUDE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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