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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FACES, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ
First Line: The faces viewed along a teeming street
Last Line: Scampering shades in a hell-driven crowd!
Subject(s): Faces
First Line: The faces viewed along a teeming street
Last Line: Scampering shades in a hell-driven crowd!
Subject(s): Faces
The faces viewed along a teeming street --
The leer of lecherous greed, the dagger eyes,
The red-veined cheeks, the frosty-cool surmise,
The insolence, edged and barbed with old conceit,
The carmine lips of girls, the gnarled defeat
Shrunken on lineaments, too starkly wise,
Of a gaunt beggar; the crass compromise
Bloated on jowls self-labelled "Fraud!" and "Cheat!"
The pale and toil-wracked brow, the chalky skin
Of children, and the drunkard's crimson stare, --
All these commingle, till one groans aloud
As in some nightmare-harrowed cave of sin,
Beholding, on each wheel-pressed thoroughfare,
Scampering shades in a hell-driven crowd!
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