greykit.poetry — #labor

• 1860 [walt-whitman] I Hear America Singing
  Leaves of Grass

  Whitman hears the varied carols of America — carpenter, mason, boatman, shoemaker — each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else.

  #lyric#America#democracy#labor#1860s
• 1843 [elizabeth-barrett-browning] The Cry of the Children
  Poems (1844)

  A protest poem on child labor in the mines and factories of England — the children weeping in the playtime of the others, dying before their time, their sob cursing deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath.

  #protest#labor#children#industrial#1840s