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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON
First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care
Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore.
Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration
First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care
Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore.
Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration
Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care,
Brown, withered hands and slow, mis-shapen feet.
A faded, ugly cap, gray wisps of hair;
A worn black coat held fumblingly to meet
Across a flat old breast.
What courage and what fears
Had burned the sunken eyes too dead for tears!
She watched the Ellis Island movie show
Without a sign, but something in her face --
The blur of years, the haggard pinch of woe --
Marked the dull features with a tragic grace.
A broken, battered shell that flushed no more,
Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore.
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