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Alms
Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is what it was before,
A house where people come and go;
But it is winter with your love,
The sashes are beset with...
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Alms
Edna St Vincent Millay
My heart is what it was before,
A house where people come and go;
But it is winter with your love,
The sashes are beset with snow.
 
I light the...
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Alms
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Near a large town, along the broad highroad walked an old sick man.
 
He tottered as he went; his old wasted legs, halting, dragging, stumbling,...
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Couplets about their Subjects, #2 (Alms).
Kaleb Suedfeld
Good folk, hear me beg of your alms,
Charity asketh my outstretched...
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As if I asked a common Alms
Emily Dickinson
As if I asked a common Alms,
And in my wondering hand
A Stranger pressed a Kingdom,
And I, bewildered, stand—
As if I asked the Orient
Had it for me...
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The Borough. Letter XIII: The Alms-House And Trustees
George Crabbe
LEAVE now our streets, and in yon plain behold
Those pleasant Seats for the reduced and old;
A merchant's gift, whose wife and children died,
When he...
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The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney
George Crabbe
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a look
Of shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?
Misery and mirth are blended in his face,
Much innate...
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The Borough. Letter XV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Clelia
George Crabbe
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every town
Are some such sprights, who wander up and down;
She had her useful arts, and could contrive,
In Time's...
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The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow
George Crabbe
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,
A meteor shining in this sober place!
Vast sums were paid, and many years were past,
Ere gems so rich...
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The Many Woes of Alms Men
Deybor
THE MANY WOES OF ALMS MEN
They are there ; and always there
Sitting by the roaring high-tempered highways
Next to the bustling avenues of...
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Many Woes of Alms Men
OSIDEIN Oluwaseun Adebowale (Deybor)
They are there ; and always there
Sitting by the roaring high-tempered highways
Next to the bustling avenues of luxurious people
They sit with...
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