Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVEN SANDWICHMEN ON BROADWAY, by JEFFERSON BUTLER FLETCHER First Line: Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass Last Line: Of fear, of hate,of the thrice false weights of gold! Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City | ||||||||
Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass, Seven in single file, and seven as one, As if a spectrum of all woe the sun Here cast through some bewitched prismatic glass. From their stooped shoulders, back and fore, hang crass High-coloured chromos of a stage mignonne In tights, astride a grinning simpleton Squat on all fours, and long-eared like an ass. "Success! Success! we readyea, thy success We read, O wanton among cities: vice Saddled on folly, woe beneath sevenfold: Woe of the lust of life, and the shameful price Of life,woe of the want, the weariness, Of fear, of hate,of the thrice false weights of gold! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER THE WHITE LIGHTS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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