greykit.poetry — #labour
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1914
[robert-frost]
After Apple-Picking
The ladder still points at heaven and a barrel stands unfilled, but the picker is done — drowsing through a pane of hoary ice, magnified apples appearing and disappearing, unsure whether the coming sleep is the woodchuck's or just human sleep.
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1914
[carl-sandburg]
Chicago
Hog Butcher for the World — the charges of wickedness, crookedness and brutality are all admitted, and then thrown back as a boast: a tall bold slugger laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth.
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1840
[henry-wadsworth-longfellow]
The Village Blacksmith
Under a spreading chestnut-tree, a man who owes not any man — the ringing bellows, the children coming home from school, the daughter's voice in the village choir, and a life read back as a lesson wrought at the sounding forge.