Songs of Labor
and Other Poems
by Morris Rosenfeld
Translated from the Yiddish by
Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank
Contents
[In the Factory]
[My Boy]
[The Nightingale to the Workman]
[What is the World?]
[Despair]
[Whither?]
[From Dawn to Dawn]
[The Candle Seller]
[The Pale Operator]
[The Beggar Family]
[A Millionaire]
[September Melodies]
[Depression]
[The Canary]
[Want and I]
[The Phantom Vessel]
[To my Misery]
[O Long the Way]
[To the Fortune Seeker]
[My Youth]
[In the Wilderness]
[I’ve Often Laughed]
[Again I Sing my Songs]
[Liberty]
[A Tree in the Ghetto]
[The Cemetery Nightingale]
[The Creation of Man]
[Journalism]
[Pen and Shears]
[For Hire]
[A Fellow Slave]
[The Jewish May]
[The Feast of Lights]
[Chanukah Thoughts]
[Sfēré]
[Measuring the Graves]
[The First Bath of Ablution]
[Atonement Evening Prayer]
[Exit Holiday]
SONGS OF LABOR AND OTHER POEMS