Eleanor Agnes Lee

Here you will find the Poem On The Jail Steps of poet Eleanor Agnes Lee

On The Jail Steps

I've won the race. 
Young man, I'm new! 
Old Sallow-face 
Good luck to you!

I've turned about, 
And paid for sin. 
And you come out, 
As I go in.

Ten years! but mark, 
I am free, free! 
Ten years of dark 
Shall gather me. 

My wife long-while 
She wept her pain. 
She cannot smile; 
She weeps again.

My little one 
Shall know my call. 
Child is there none 
For sin grows tall.

Now who are you, 
Spar of hell's flood? 
And who, and who, 
But your own blood?