Almshouse Poems - Poems about Almshouse

...Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War, Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore. At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight. At eight, her mother died, and h......Read the rest...

...In the year of 1880, in Watertown, northern New York, a man walked into an almshouse, looked no different from other poor. The man’s dress was quite slovenly, he was clad in rough leather boot......Read the rest...

...Time and again finances stretched to breaking point crackle, pop, and snap 'curse Alfred E. Neuman smiles at yours truly (this luckless papa) with with his toothy gap haint even Abel nor Cai......Read the rest...

...via unspoken mandate, and thence subsequently, when receiving presents galore, tis incumbent to craft sincere polite thank you note (written in calligraphy if possibly) to evince real or fe......Read the rest...