Pike Country Ballads:Jim Bludso, Of The Prairie Belle (John Hay Poems)
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives, Becase he don't live, you see;Leastways, he's got out of the habit Of livin' ...
Poems about smokestacks (12 Poems)
“An American girl of twenty” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
An American girl of twentyShould reach Egypt,Forgetting the advice from the Titanic,Asleep on the bottom, gloomier than the crypt.In America ...
Thorn Etude (Janina Degutyte Poems)
They left in boarded-up trains.I escaped into a fairy tale.Tanks rolled down the street.I gazed at the birds.From the forts ...
Hospital Window (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins tapering delicately needletopped, Empire State's taller ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The Sins of Kalamazoo (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
Joliet (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ON the one hand the steel works. On the other hand the penitentiary. Sante Fé trains and Alton trains Between ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
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 ...
Picnic Boat (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SUNDAY night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake ...
Five Towns on the B. & O. (Carl Sandburg Poems)
BY day . tireless smokestacks . hungry smoky shanties hanging to the slopes . crooning: We get by, that's all. ...
John Ericsson Day Memorial, 1918 (Carl Sandburg Poems)
INTO the gulf and the pit of the dark night, the cold night, there is a man goes into the ...