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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOMEN TOILERS, by GRACE BOWEN EVANS First Line: I saw them from our car today Last Line: As I was passing by their fields today! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers | |||
I saw them from our car today, As I was passing by— The women toilers! Mexican, Negro, white, Working in the cotton fields From dawn of day till night. I wonder what the recompense Of toil like theirs— Fulfillment, joy, sweet peace? Or just the dull despair Of aching weariness, That never knows surcease? I wonder, oh, I wonder how In God's great plan, I shall make restitution for The joy, the ease, the time Spent in such idle ways, When these must wilt Out in the hot sun's blaze. At night I see them When I try to pray; God help them to be kind When they shall think of me, Beloved, rested, gay— As I was passing by their fields today! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSELF AND I by BARBARA E. KNITTEL TEMPORARY JOB by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT OPENING THE MAIL by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT BRIGHT LEAF by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT WOMENS' SUFFRAGE by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD IMMUNE TO LOVE by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG CONTRA MORTEM: THE CHILD'S BEING by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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