A Father To His Son (Carl Sandburg Poems)
A father sees his son nearing manhood.What shall he tell that son?"Life is hard; be steel; be a rock."And this ...
A father sees his son nearing manhood.What shall he tell that son?"Life is hard; be steel; be a rock."And this ...
I could love youas dry roots love rain.I could hold youas branches in the windbrandish petals.Forgive me for speaking so ...
CAST a bronze of my head and legs and put them on the king's street. Set the cast of me ...
(March, 1919)A LIAR goes in fine clothes. A liar goes in rags. A liar is a liar, clothes or no ...
ELSIE FLIMMERWON, you got a job now with a jazz outfit in vaudeville. The houses go wild when you finish ...
I DON'T know how he came, shambling, dark, and strong. He stood in the city and told men: My people ...
1THERE was a late autumn cricket, And two smoldering mountain sunsets Under the valley roads of her eyes. There was ...
I SALUTED a nobody. I saw him in a looking-glass. He smiled-so did I. He crumpled the skin on his ...
WHO knows what I know when I have asked the night questions and the night has answered nothing only the ...
GALOOTS, you hairy, hankering, Snousle on the bones you eat, chew at the gristle and lick the last of it. ...
I dreamed one man stood against a thousand, One man damned as a wrongheaded fool. One year and another he ...
LET me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord. Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool, on a child. ...
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