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Morris Rosenfeld
December 28, 1862 – June 22, 1923
Poetry Listing
See Morris Rosenfeld's Story and Essay Listing Here.
Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.
Please, if you find an error, let me know.
Read More About Morris Rosenfeld below poetry list
| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: A Fellow Slave | Pale-faced is he, as in the door | | 36 | 82 | | 2: A Millionaire | No, not from tuning-forks of gold | | 16 | 84 | | 3: A Tree in the Ghetto | There stands in th' leafless Ghetto | | 40 | 105 | | 4: Again I Sing my Songs | Once again my songs I sing thee, | | 48 | 87 | | 5: Atonement Evening Prayer | Atonement Day--evening pray'r--sadness profound. | | 12 | 96 | | 6: Chanukah Thoughts | Not always as you see us now, | | 24 | 110 | | 7: Depression | All the striving, all the failing, | | 24 | 95 | | 8: Despair | No rest--not one day in the seven for me? | | 48 | 100 | | 9: Exit Holiday | Farewell to the feast-day! the pray'r book is stained | | 18 | 77 | | 10: For Hire | Work with might and main, | | 8 | 87 | | 11: From Dawn to Dawn | I bend o'er the wheel at my sewing; | | 40 | 86 | | 12: I've Often Laughed | I've often laughed and oftener still have wept, | | 12 | 82 | | 13: In The Factory | Oh, here in the shop the machines roar so wildly, | | 64 | 207 | | 14: In The Wilderness | Alone in desert dreary, | | 28 | 91 | | 15: Journalism | Written today, and read today, | | 8 | 82 | | 16: Liberty | When night and silence deep | | 42 | 85 | | 17: Measuring the Graves | First old Minna, bent and lowly, | | 28 | 97 | | 18: My Boy | I have a little boy at home, | | 40 | 93 | | 19: My Youth | Come, beneath yon verdant branches, | | 56 | 98 | | 20: O Long The Way | O long the way and short the day, | | 12 | 89 | | 21: Pen and Shears | My tailor's shears I scorned then; | | 24 | 93 | | 22: September Melodies | The summer is over! | | 44 | 90 | | 23: Sfere | I asked of my Muse, had she any objection | | 56 | 82 | | 24: The Beggar Family | Within the court, before the judge, | | 72 | 86 | | 25: The Canary | The free canary warbles | | 8 | 105 | | 26: The Candle Seller | In Hester Street, hard by a telegraph post, | | 82 | 94 | | 27: The Cemetery Nightingale | In the hills' embraces holden, | | 36 | 85 | | 28: The Creation of Man | When the world was first created | | 52 | 97 | | 29: The Feast Of Lights | Little candles glistening, | | 24 | 97 | | 30: The First Bath of Ablution | The wind is keen, the frost is dread, | | 36 | 91 | | 31: The Jewish May | May has come from out the showers, | | 119 | 98 | | 32: The Nightingale to the Workman | Fair summer is here, glad summer is here! | | 45 | 95 | | 33: The Pale Operator | If but with my pen I could draw him, | | 24 | 82 | | 34: The Phantom Vessel | Now the last, long rays of sunset | | 44 | 100 | | 35: To My Misery | O Misery of mine, no other | | 40 | 95 | | 36: To The Fortune Seeker | A little more, a little less! | | 30 | 95 | | 37: Want And I | Who's there? who's there? who was it tried | | 72 | 80 | | 38: What is the World? | Well, say you the world is a chamber of sleep, | | 32 | 77 | | 39: Whither? | Say whither, whither, pretty one? | | 22 | 84 |
About:
Morris Rosenfeld (Moshe Jacob Alter) (Born in Bokscha in Russian Poland, government of Suwa?ki Died in New York) was a Yiddish poet.
His work sheds light on the living circumstances of emigrants from Eastern Europe in New York's tailoring workshops.
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