Social Commentaries
The Street Lamps
From New York Nocturnes and Other Poems (1898)
Social Commentaries
Eyes of the city,
Keeping your sleepless watch from sun to sun,
Is it for pity
You tremble, seeing innocence undone;
Or do you laugh, to think men thus should set
Spies on the folly day would fain forget?
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Roberts, Charles G. D. “The Street Lamps.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/roberts_cgd/134/.
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Roberts, Charles G. D. “The Street Lamps.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/roberts_cgd/134/.
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