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 ...
Carl Sandburg Poems on Sleep (32 Poems)
Sleepyheads (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SLEEP is a maker of makers. Birds sleep. Feet cling to a perch. Look at the balance. Let the legs ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
Southern Pacific (Carl Sandburg Poems)
HUNTINGTON sleeps in a house six feet long. Huntington dreams of railroads he built and owned. Huntington dreams of ten ...
Statistics (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NAPOLEON shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: "Who goes there?" "Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, ...
Stripes (Carl Sandburg Poems)
POLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. . lonely. Policeman State and Madison . high noon . mobs . ...
The Answer (Carl Sandburg Poems)
You have spoken the answer. A child searches far sometimes Into the red dust On a dark rose leaf And ...
The Four Brothers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
The Liars (Carl Sandburg Poems)
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes. A liar goes in rags. A liar is a liar, clothes or no ...
Trinity Place (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE GRAVE of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of Wall Street. The grave of Robert Fulton ...
Yes, the Dead Speak to Us (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YES, the Dead speak to us. This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness. Back ...
In Tall Grass (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BEES and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner-a skull in the tall grass ...
Skyscraper (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the ...
Killers (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I AM singing to you Soft as a man with a dead child speaks; Hard as a man in handcuffs, ...
Aztec Mask (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I wanted a man's face looking into the jaws and throat of life With something proud on his face, so ...
Loam (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IN the loam we sleep, In the cool moist loam, To the lull of years that pass And the break ...
Death Snips Proud Men (Carl Sandburg Poems)
DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now ...
Mammy Hums (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THIS is the song I rested with: The right shoulder of a strong man I leaned on. The face of ...
For You (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE PEACE of great doors be for you. Wait at the knobs, at the panel oblongs. Wait for the great ...
Pigeon (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE FLUTTER of blue pigeon's wings Under a river bridge Hunting a clean dry arch, A corner for a sleep- ...
Halsted Street Car (Carl Sandburg Poems)
COME you, cartoonists, Hang on a strap with me here At seven o'clock in the morning On a Halsted street ...
Portrait of a Motor Car (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IT'S a lean car . a long-legged dog of a car . a gray-ghost eagle car. The feet of it ...
Nights Nothings Again (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHO knows what I know when I have asked the night questions and the night has answered nothing only the ...
Pods (Carl Sandburg Poems)
PEA pods cling to stems. Neponset, the village, Clings to the Burlington railway main line. Terrible midnight limiteds roar through ...
Wind Song (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LONG ago I learned how to sleep, In an old apple orchard where the wind swept by counting its money ...
Work Gangs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BOX cars run by a mile long. And I wonder what they say to each other When they stop a ...
Always the Mob (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock ...
Between Two Hills (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Between two hills The old town stands. The houses loom And the roofs and trees And the dusk and the ...
Blue Island Intersection (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SIX street ends come together here. They feed people and wagons into the center. In and out all day horses ...
Docks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
STROLLING along By the teeming docks, I watch the ships put out. Black ships that heave and lunge And move ...