Public Domain Poetry And Stories - Penury. A Quatrain. by Madison Julius Cawein Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear.
Above his misered embers, gnarled and gray,
With toil-twitched limbs he bends; around his hut,
Want, like a hobbling hag, goes night and day,
Scolding at windows and at doors tight-shut.
