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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERALD SQUARE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poet's Biography First Line: You who have felt the pressure and made good Last Line: God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places. Subject(s): Herald Square, New York City; Hunger; Winter | |||
You who have felt the pressure and made good, Who cold and hungry heard the presses thunder; And watched with eyes that little understood Sheet after sheet show white, and double under; And saw beside you there some face of wood, Some well-clad idler's stare of vacant wonder; Clubman, collegian, child or priest or maid: Have you not envied them their careless faces, Their lives untried, untainted, unafraid; Their linen white? These are the printless spaces, The margins for your mark. His ink may fade, God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE A SENIOR'S PLEA by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD |
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