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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME
First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within
Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street.
Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes
First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within
Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street.
Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes
It is night --
Warm fires glow within,
But out in the pouring rain
I hear the dragging of feet;
Feet tingling with cold and pain,
Tramping an unfriendly street.
It is late --
Still they walk and they dream,
With never a place to go,
Never a friend they can greet.
Bitter they feel toward life, I know
Tramping an unfriendly street.
It is sad --
That in a world like this,
Such harrowing things can be,
Perhaps to them life once was sweet.
It hurts my soul, lone men to see,
Tramping an unfriendly street.
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