Harry Kemp
Harry Kemp
Harry Hibbard Kempwas an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known asthe "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."...
blindness close perhaps pitied spirit walks
I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me
march host
And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?
lonely long-ago sky
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.
dream man poor
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream