"Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces.
Like rootless weeds the torn hair round their paleness."
Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (l. 1-2). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
"Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That open on their lives like crouching tombs
Break, O break open,"
Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (l. 25-28). . .
Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company. |
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