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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CIVILIZED, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN First Line: Dirty and dull, she plods along the street Last Line: And stops before the moving-picture shows. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars | |||
Dirty and dull, she plods along the street With sagging skirts and hair tucked out of sight. Her pappoose, from his creaking cab, looks out Upon the hurrying crowd; his eyes, wild, bright, Hold tales of campfire dreams, of forest things, Of bending pines that whisper all the night. He cries a bit. The mother stills his cries With sticky colored candy, smooths his clothes. She peers for bargains as she passes by And stops before the moving-picture shows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GENERATIONS by LUCILLE CLIFTON HUMAN INTERLUDE by JACK HIRSCHMAN AFTER UNGARETTI; I.M. DARRELL GRAY by ANSELM HOLLO SAY PARDON TO A BUM by DAVID IGNATOW STREET SONGS: 2. THE BEGGAR by WALLACE STEVENS ON A FAIR BEGGAR by PHILIP AYRES THE PATH-FLOWER by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN |
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