Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915. | | | | Fires |
By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson |
(Contemporary English poet of the lives of the poor) |
| | | SNUG in my easy chair, | |
| I stirred the fire to flame. | |
| Fantastically fair | |
| The flickering fancies came, | |
| Born of heart’s desire: | 5 |
| Amber woodlands streaming; | |
| Topaz islands dreaming, | |
| Sunset-cities gleaming, | |
| Spire on burning spire; | |
| Ruddy-windowed taverns; | 10 |
| Sunshine-spilling wines; | |
| Crystal-lighted caverns | |
| Of Golconda’s mines; | |
| Summers, unreturning; | |
| Passion’s crater yearning; | 15 |
| Troy, the ever-burning; | |
| Shelley’s lustral pyre; | |
| Dragon-eyes, unsleeping; | |
| Witches’ cauldrons leaping; | |
| Golden galleys sweeping | 20 |
| Out from sea-walled Tyre: | |
| Fancies, fugitive and fair, | |
| Flashed with winging through the air; | |
| Till, dazzled by the drowsy glare, | |
| I shut my eyes to heat and light; | 25 |
| And saw, in sudden night, | |
| Crouched in the dripping dark, | |
| With streaming shoulders stark, | |
| The man who hews the coal to feed my fire. | | | | |
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