And So To-Day (Carl Sandburg Poems)
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...
She had a boxwith a million red bandanas for him.She gave them to himone by one or by thousands,saying then ...
I could love youas dry roots love rain.I could hold youas branches in the windbrandish petals.Forgive me for speaking so ...
(Washington, August, 1918)I HAVE seen this city in the day and the sun. I have seen this city in the ...
I cannot tell you now; When the wind's drive and whirl Blow me along no longer, And the wind's a ...
I LOVE your faces I saw the many years I drank your milk and filled my mouth With your home ...
SMOKE of autumn is on it all. The streamers loosen and travel. The red west is stopped with a gray ...
RIDING against the east, A veering, steady shadow Purrs the motor-call Of the man-bird Ready with the death-laughter In his ...
THE GRAVE of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of Wall Street. The grave of Robert Fulton ...
THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and two white mice. She used to keep ...
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands And take it when it runs by, As the Apache dancer ...
KEEP a red heart of memories Under the great gray rain sheds of the sky, Under the open sun and ...
YOU will come one day in a waver of love, Tender as dew, impetuous as rain, The tan of the ...
LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made, the ...
A LONE gray bird, Dim-dipping, far-flying, Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults Of night and the sea And ...
BODY of Jesus taken down from the cross Carved in ivory by a lover of Christ, It is a child's ...
HAVE me in the blue and the sun. Have me on the open sea and the mountains. When I go ...
PASSERS-BY, Out of your many faces Flash memories to me Now at the day end Away from the sidewalks Where ...
SELL me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood. Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the ...
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
WHO knows what I know when I have asked the night questions and the night has answered nothing only the ...
(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms. I might have said, "Dogs bark and the wind carries it ...
SHAKE back your hair, O red-headed girl. Let go your laughter and keep your two proud freckles on your chin. ...
I TOOK away three pictures. One was a white gull forming a half-mile arch from the pines toward Waukegan. One ...
Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and ...
THERE is a wolf in me . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . a red tongue for raw meat . ...
Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give me hunger, pain and want, ...
I LOVE him, I love him, ran the patter of her lips And she formed his name on her tongue ...
IT is something to face the sun and know you are free. To hold your head in the shafts of ...
I SAT with a dynamiter at supper in a German saloon eating steak and onions. And he laughed and told ...
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