"Six O'Clock" by Trumbull Stickney

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 13, 2018   Six O'Clock   Trumbull Stickney

Now burst above the city's cold twilight The piercing whistles and the tower-clocks: For day is done. Along the frozen docks The workmen set their ragged shirts aright. Thro' factory doors a stream of dingy light Follows the scrimmage as it quickly flocks To hut and home among the snow's gray blocks.— I love you, human labourers. Good-night! Good-night to all the blackened arms that ache! Good-night to every sick and sweated brow, To the poor girl that strength and love forsake, To the poor boy who can no more! I vow The victim soon shall shudder at the stake And fall in blood: we bring him even now.                This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Six O'Clock" was published in The Poems of Trumbull Stickney (Houghton Mifflin, 1905).   Trumbull Stickney was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 20, 1874. In 1902, he published his debut poetry collection, Dramatic Verses (C. E. Goodspeed, 1902). He died two years later on October 11, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poetry by Stickney   Dramatic Verses (Forgotten Books, 2018) "Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood "Preparation" by Effie Waller Smith "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden October Guest Editor: Ross Gay   Thanks to Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Gay and our guest editors for the year. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038