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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A SILVER DOLLAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through Last Line: "seem those fair, graven words: ""in god we trust." Subject(s): Greed; Numismatics; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical; Riches; Fortunes | |||
Pale coin, what various hands have you passed through Ere you to-day within my hand were laid? Perchance a laborer's well-earned hire you made; Some miser may have gloated long on you; Perhaps some pitying hand to Want outthrew; And, lost and won through devious tricks of trade, You may have been, alas! the full price paid For some pour soul that loved you past your due. No doubt 'tis well, O imaged Liberty, You see not where your placid face is thrust, Nor know how far man is from being free, Bound as he is by money's fateful lust, While to his anxious soul like mockery Seem those fair, graven words: "In God we trust." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA by WILLIAM MATTHEWS IMAGINE YOURSELF by EVE MERRIAM THE PROPHET by LUCILLE CLIFTON I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' by KENNETH REXROTH LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS by KENNETH REXROTH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST by KENNETH REXROTH A GOOD-BYE by EFFIE WALLER SMITH |
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