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 ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
Somebody who should have been born is gone.Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from its ...
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream of time.Hope is a heartspun word, the rainbow, the shadblow in whiteThe ...
"Brother Square-Toes"--Rewards and Fairies. If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. ...
That phrase, "healing a nation" kept going through my mind this morning thinking about the legacy, the model, the example ...
The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead if the lips were gone. The year has ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
"Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye not be troubles; all these things must come ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
TO the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
AARM'D year! year of the struggle! No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! Not you as ...
If the diamond ring turns brass Mama's going to buy you a looking glass Marianne Moore and Ezra Pound and ...
Somebody who should have been born is gone. Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from ...
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
I HAVE been in Pennsylvania, In the Monongahela and the Hocking Valleys. In the blue Susquehanna On a Saturday morning ...
WAGON WHEEL GAP is a place I never saw And Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek. Red-shirted ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying to ...
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