London Types: Beef-Eater
London Types: Beef-Eater His beat lies knee-high through a dust of story– A dust of terror and torture, grief and crime; Ghosts that are England’s wonder, […]
READ MORELondon Types: Bluecoat Boy
London Types: Bluecoat Boy So went our boys when Edward Sixth, the King, Chartered Christ’s Hospital, and died. And so Full fifteen generations in a string […]
READ MORELondon Types: Drum-Major
London Types: Drum-Major Who says Drum-Major says a man of mould, Shaking the meek earth with tremendous tread, And pacing still, a triumph to behold, Of […]
READ MORELondon Types: Flower-Girl
London Types: Flower-Girl There’s never a delicate nurseling of the year But our huge London hails it, and delights To wear it on her breast or […]
READ MORELondon Types: Hawker
London Types: Hawker Far out of bounds he’d figured–in a race Of West-End traffic pitching to his loss. But if you’d see him in his proper […]
READ MORELondon Types: Mounted Police
London Types: Mounted Police Army Reserve; a worshipper of Bobs, With whom he stripped the smock from Candahar; Neat as his mount, that neatest among cobs; […]
READ MORELondon Types: News Boy
London Types: News Boy Take any station, pavement, circus, corner, Where men their styles of print may call or choose, And there–ten times more on it […]
READ MORELondon Types: Sandwich-Man
London Types: Sandwich-Man An ill March noon; the flagstones gray with dust; An all-round east wind volleying straws and grit; St. Martin’s Steps, where every venomous […]
READ MORELondon Types: The Artist Muses at his Ease
London Types: The Artist Muses at his Ease The Artist muses at his ease, Contented that his work is done, And smiling–smiling!–as he sees His crowd […]
READ MORELondon Types:Life-Guardsman
London Types:Life-Guardsman Joy of the Milliner, Envy of the Line, Star of the Parks, jack-booted, sworded, helmed, He sits between his holsters, solid of spine; Nor, […]
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