She is not of the fireside,
My lovely love;
Nor books, nor even a cradle,
She bends above.
No, she is bent with lashes,
Her flesh is torn.
From blackness into blackness
She walks forlorn.
But factories and prisons
Are far more fair
Than home or palace gardens
If she is there.
More verses by Lesbia Harford
- Skirt Machinist
- Mortal Poems
- White Sunshine
- She Has All Ireland In Her Blood
- To Look Across At Moira Gives Me Pleasure