When I was a child I knew red miners
dressed raggedly and wearing carbide lamps.
I saw them come down red hills to their camps
dyed with red dust from old Ishkooda mines.
Night after night I met them on the roads,
or on the streets in town I caught their glance;
the swing of dinner buckets in their hands,
and grumbling undermining all their words.
I also lived in low cotton country
where moonlight hovered over ripe haystacks,
or stumps of trees, and croppers’ rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by,
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Hurrahing In Harvest poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Британишский – Сон: в детстве, весной, в лесу
- Владимир Маяковский – Военно-морская любовь
- Олег Бундур – Что будет, если
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 by William Cowper
- The Half-way House poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Алексей Толстой – То было раннею весной
- Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
- Crawling At Sea by Vaishnavi Prakash
- UNREADABLE by Satish Verma
- Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
- Farewell to Eliza (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Lighted Window by Sara Teasdale
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).