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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LONELY MAN, by AGNES LEE Poet's Biography
First Line: It's lonely in lodgings above the street
Last Line: If you come into a house or go out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: It's lonely in lodgings above the street
Last Line: If you come into a house or go out of it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
It's lonely in lodgings above the street
When dusk slows down the day's long laboring,
With only a nod to a lad on the stair,
And neither kith nor kin to be neighboring.
It must be good to go out of a house
With the soft goodbye of your loved one spoken,
And a windowful of little faces
Smiling you off as you wave in token.
It must be good to come back to a house,
And hear the joy, the welcoming shout of it.
It must be good to have anyone care
If you come into a house or go out of it.
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