concerning time clocks.

[rowens]

There's nothing wrong with using oldish sounding words if you can do something worthwhile with them. Sticking them in doesn't make a poem Romantic, and if you're looking to write a Romantic poem you probably don't have much Romantic sensibility, if you did you would just write and it would come out Romantic. But what do you mean by  romantic?

Work takes too long to let me get home.

Maybe you could try lines in that vein.