Famous Unloading Poems by Famous Poets

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From the Roof

...broom-vendor yesterday, who passed
just as we needed a new broom, was not one of the Hidden Ones?)
Crates of fruit are unloading
across the street on the cobbles,
and a brazier flaring
to warm the men and burn trash. He wished us
luck when we bought the broom. But not luck 
brought us here. By design

clean air and cold wind polish 
the river lights, by design
we are to live now in a new place....Read more of this...
by Levertov, Denise


In The Baggage Room At Greyhound

...concrete 
 floor, 
nor seabags emptied into the night in the final 
 warehouse. 

 II

Yet Spade reminded me of Angel, unloading a bus, 
dressed in blue overalls black face official Angel's work- 
 man cap, 
pushing with his belly a huge tin horse piled high with 
 black baggage, 
looking up as he passed the yellow light bulb of the loft 
and holding high on his arm an iron shepherd's crook. 

 III

It was the racks, I realized, sitting myself on top of 
 them now as is my w...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

The Death of the Hired Man

...every forkful in its place,
And tags and numbers it for future reference,
So he can find and easily dislodge it
In the unloading. Silas does that well.
He takes it out in bunches like big birds' nests.
You never see him standing on the hay
He's trying to lift, straining to lift himself.'
'He thinks if he could teach him that, he'd be

Some good perhaps to someone in the world.
He hates to see a boy the fool of books.
Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk,
And nothing to lo...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

The Rear-Guard

...shells in muffled sound. 
At last, with sweat of horror in his hair, 
He climbed through darkness to the twilight air, 
Unloading hell behind him step by step....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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