Carl Sandburg Poems on Cars Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

And so to-day--they lay him away-- the boy nobody knows the name of-- the buck private--the unknown soldier-- the doughboy ...

A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads,And the million are now under soil ...

A FOREFINGER of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky. It says: This way! this way! Four lions ...

POLICEMAN in front of a bank 3 A.M. . lonely. Policeman State and Madison . high noon . mobs . ...

THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...

THE dago shovelman sits by the railroad track Eating a noon meal of bread and bologna. A train whirls by, ...

COME you, cartoonists, Hang on a strap with me here At seven o'clock in the morning On a Halsted street ...

COOL your heels on the rail of an observation car. Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an ...

I WAITED today for a freight train to pass. Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the bars, went ...

A MILLION young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads, And the million are now under ...

MANY things I might have said today. And I kept my mouth shut. So many times I was asked To ...

IN the cool of the night time The clocks pick off the points And the mainsprings loosen. They will need ...

IN Abraham Lincoln's city, Where they remember his lawyer's shingle, The place where they brought him Wrapped in battle flags, ...

IT'S a lean car . a long-legged dog of a car . a gray-ghost eagle car. The feet of it ...

Carl Sandburg Poems on Cars (14 Poems)